Fostering social entrepreneurship in rural areas through local action

Good Practice webinar of the Rural Pact Support Office EU rural areas need innovative tools to facilitate business development that helps address social issues and offers inclusive employment opportunities. A possible response can be social entrepreneurship and social enterprises, which contribute to the achievement of social as well as of economic goals. They often drive social innovation in vital aspects of rural life such as social care and health services, retail, education and training, environmental products and services, food production, culture or tourism, by re-designing and re-engineering business models and value chains, developing new clusters and networks, or establishing new relationships or collaborations between public, private and third sector organisations.

In the context of the Rural Pact, this Good Practice Webinar will offer practitioners a range of inspiring initiatives fostering social entrepreneurship and provide an opportunity to discuss and explore them in depth. The focus of the discussions will be selected to address the interests expressed by participants in the registration form (e.g. finding the right format of social enterprise to address a specific community need, ensuring the involvement of key actors, developing the necessary skills, or maintaining and developing the social enterprise in a long-term perspective).

Objectives:

• to help rural stakeholders interested in social entrepreneurship to present, exchange experience and get inspiration from projects on the ground;
• to take stock of major challenges faced and solutions adopted, in particular for the twin (green and digital) transition, by rural entrepreneurs and communities to make their initiatives a reality;
• to build the capacity of participants to promote social enterprise through effective high quality projects responding to the rural needs.

Directed to: The webinar is targeted at practitioners currently or potentially involved in the implementation of, or support to, social entrepreneurship projects, including local actors, experts and policy makers at various levels. 

Date and time: Thursday, May 11 at 1:00 p.m.

Online event