Programme:
Swedish Institute Baltic Sea Cooperation (Seed funding)
Project number:
02979/2019
Implementation time:
01.08.2019.-30.10.2021.
Partners of the project:
Coompanion Östergötland Ekonomisk Förening (Zviedrija)
Europe Foundation (EPF) Gruzija)
*visi projekta partneri ir NVO / *all project partners are NGOs
Purpose the of the project:
The overall aim is to define common opportunities for supporting creative social entrepreneurship and develop cross border social trade between partnering countries, for new applications.
Challenges that the project solves:
A common interest for the partnership is to see growth of the creative business sector in regard to social entrepreneurship. Global trends show the growing impact of creative entrepreneurship. With growing concern about social inclusion issues and employment risk groups, a new trend has developed – the creative social entrepreneurship. The creative social enterprise means making profits that are in turn reinvested in the social enterprise-sector, which in turn benefit people and contribute to different social activities. All three partners see great opportunities for both general growth and solving social issues by creating support systems for the CSE-sector.
Project activities and results:
| Short-term project objective | Indicator(s) | Expected output(s) |
| Social trade model, cross-border | Theoretical model(s) conceptualised | New application |
| Knowledge sharing – support tools for creative social entrepreneurship | Shared knowledge about Impact hub, counselling models, (social) innovation systems, local examples, methods for social inclusion, financing etc. | Mobilising new cross-governance partners at local, regional and national level for new application. |
| Ecosystem of support | Theoretical model conceptualised | Mapped oversight of beneficial tools to be included in the support ecosystem for CSE-sector – for stakeholders and new applications. |
| Knowledge sharing – Legal frameworks | Analysing legal differences between partnering countries, and respective connected challenges for Social entrepreneurship | Mapped oversight of legal challenges with proposals for ways of improvement – for stakeholders and new applications. |
The role of Valmiera Development Agency in the project:
This project is the first initiative on creative social entrepreneurship in Latvia and would
definitely complement the efforts of the Social Entrepreneurship Association of Latvia in
developing and promoting the overall social enterprise ecosystem in Latvia.
Final project report:
Support tools and legal system for the creative social entrepreneurship sector in Latvia, Sweden and Georgia – a comparative analysis
Contact:
Baiba Zvejniece,
baiba.zvejniece@valmiera.lv, t. +3712680520
https://si.se/en/
