Social Entrepreneurship in Sparsely Populated Areas
SOCENT SPAs / Interreg Europe
SOCENT SPAs will foster interregional cooperation among six public/private entities of Finland, Germany, Slovakia and Spain in a view to improve the effectiveness of regional policies in actively supporting the visibility, incubation and acceleration of social entrepreneurs in sparsely populated areas (SPAs) as a driver to regional competitiveness and inclusive growth.
In SPAs, demographic trends are a particular challenge. As counter-measure, social innovation needs to be developed to promote employment and competitiveness as it can make a real difference as a source of innovative approaches for resolving societal challenges through mobilizing civil society to further inclusive socioeconomic development. Social Enterprises (SEs) directly benefit local development and correct major socioeconomic imbalances while benefiting local communities, a crucial asset to secure the population in SPAs. However, bespoke support for SEs is limited; policymakers can play a significant role by setting up the right legal framework.
Thus, to influence policies in a view to enhance SEs’ visibility and competitiveness whilst taking into account SPAs’ conditions, interregional exchange of knowledge and successful experiences/good practices will be fundamental. With an integrated approach, a comprehensive learning process based on identification, analysis and transfer will be implemented through workshops, site visits and meetings with stakeholders. Based on the learning acquired, action plans aiming at integrating SEs in SPAs support schemes into policies will be developed. Communication will play a crucial role in supporting the action
The main outputs will be a best practices guide for SEs in SPAs and 4 implemented action plans. The main results will be policymakers’ awareness raised on SEs as a driver to inclusive growth and their capacities increased in identifying SEs’ needs and addressing these adequately in their policies to create an enabling legal environment for SEs.
Duration
January 2017 – June 2021
Donor
Project is supported by EU – European Regional Development Fund
Partners
- General Directorate for Social Economy and Self-Employed Persons – Regional Government of Castile and León (ES)
- Social Impact (Nemecko)
- NGOD Cives Mundi (ES)
- Lapland University of Applied Sciences (FI)
- Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic (SK)
- Non-profit organization EPIC (SK)
Resources
- website of project
- Gemer – info
- Site-visit Gemer (TASR)
- OZ Druživa (Slovak article)
- report from site-visit in Gemer (Ela Kelementová)
- report from site-visit in Lapland (Ela Klementová)
- Social Entrepreneurship in Brandenburg (Eva Havelková)
- Bilateral best practices exchange in Bratislava: Spain-Slovakia (April 2019)
- Bilateral visit in Lapland (May 2019)
- Workshop on trainer-training in Soria (May 2019)
- Action plan finalisation workshop – partner meeting (May 2019)
- Publication: Good practice guide on examples of social enterprises and social innovation from sparsely populated European regions (in English. June 2019)
Documents for public (211/2000 Z.z.)
- Application Form
- oznámenie o schválení projektu (Final Approval)
- časový harmonogram projektu (Chrono)
- dohoda o partnerstve (Project Partnership Agreement)
- faktúra 263331153 – invoice/airticket (Nádaždyová)
- faktúra 27333037 – invoice/airticket (EPIC)
- faktúra 2017161 – invoice/airticket (Havelková)epi
- faktúra 20170942 – invoice/letenka (Klementová)
- faktúra Babarík 5/2017 – invoice (fotoreport)
- príloha 3 – rozpočet (Annex III – Budget 20170117)
- zmluva PG 102359 (Subsidy contract PG 102359)
- faktúra 71000015 – invoice (ŠandK,s.r.o.)