Tag Archives: entrepreneurship
SEE – Social Enterprising Europe
SEE (Social Enterprising Europe) is a European project, supported by the LLP Programme/Grundtvig of the European Union. The project started in November 2012 and will last at the end of October 2014.
The aim of the project is the development and testing of a shared program and training materials in social entrepreneurship.
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The financial crisis unleashed economic fear throughout Europe bringing high unemployment rates, increasing poverty and widening social gap. The pressing economic situation demands a new way of thinking and
Seed participates in Global Social Venture Competition
Seed has registered ad participant in the Italian Round of the 2012 Global Social Venture Competition, the largest Social Business competition worldwide, promoted by the University of Berkeley. The Social Business plan submitted is LU*Lab, seed's new concept of open office space for facilitating individual and micro-enterprise activities in technology-oriented service professions - seed's answer to the economic and financial crisis!
The project was also submitted to the 2012 Microcredit call of the City of Lugano. Let's keep finger crossed!
Entrpreneurship support? Shut up and listen!
Here is a great TED lecture by Ernesto Sirolli about entrepreneuship support. This is really insightful both about the destination to failure of so many international cooperation projects, and about how to stimulate local leaders and entrepreneur to develop they own community.
Also, you will find here a realistic definition of enterprise which is sometimes at odds with many bookish definitions, so loved by business angels...
Watch it, 17 minutes very well spent! Thanks to Paolo Brunello for suggesting this.
Here is the
Start-up of a recreational cafeteria in Ecuador
Opening a recreation cafeteria, where young people and children can socialize, play, read and learn together. That was the entrepreneurial idea from a local association of woman in Ecuador that seed supported, since the creation of the business plan, till the real opening of the Cafeteria!
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Catamayo is a town of 30’000 inhabitants in the south of Ecuador where seed supported the opening of a cafeteria where young people and children can meet, play, read and organize learning entertaining initiatives. The
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