Finance4SocialChange Leveraging Finance 4 positive Social Change

European Social Catalyst Fund (ESCF) has launched the Call for Applications 2020, which aims at bringing together public and private resources to improve social services to enable people who need support to live as valued and participating...

Although grants, donations are still the first financial choice and resource for social enterprises as a financing instrument, there is a diversity of innovative financial instruments at disposal for social impact investing in the Danube...

Dear Partners, we wish to all those who have contributed in one way or another to the Finance4SocialChange project in 2019, a Merry Christmas, wonderful holidays and a Happy New Year with lots of success and cooperation...

Social economy makes positive changes in the world. Why you should invest FOR impact not only WITH impact? - Learn about new forms of crowdfunding and how do global Impact Investing markets look like?  Irene Basile (OECD), Gianluca Gaggiotti...

"How can SocialEntrepreneurs increase their skills?"   Professor Karin Kreutzer from EBS University, Dr. Belinda Bell from the University of Cambridge and Iznaur Khazuev from the Center for Network Initiatives Support speak about:  How can prize...

What is the difference between social enterprises and enterprises? Why do we need social enterprises? Can we measure social impact? Find out more in the new video released by our partners from the University of Heidelberg! ( 2 out of 5) “Finance...

We have exciting news for you!  Within the Finance4SocialChange Project, a Blended Learning Academy is under full production under the hashtag #MOOC "Accelerating Investment Readiness (AIR)". Enjoy the teaser video (1 of 5)!  A new video will be...

Against the most complex socio-economic issues the world faces today, social entrepreneurship and impact investing have emerged as vital avenues for driving social impact. These two intertwined fields are constantly evolving in order to face...

We are pleased to announce that ACT Group ( AG) from Croatia joined Finance4SocialChange partnership making it even stronger.  Act Group is a community of change-makers aspiring to empower the impact economy ecosystem in Croatia and CEE region...

Great  ideas were result of brainstorming of experts within Finance4SocialChange Tehnical Advisory Board and Policy Advisory Board who have been actively participating in the Stakeholder groups and Local Policy Focus Group in order to ensure...

Sofia Development Association  presented Finance4SocialChange project activities with a focus on good practices in social entrepreneurship and social impact investing from Bulgaria and the other project partners’ countries during “Social...

Fruitful discussion and hard work by our WP leaders. Discussing the next steps and activities done so far. Good things are coming our way. Stay tuned.

The project partner in Romania, UEFSCDI, promoted F4SC inside the IEW2019 conference, participating in the Exhibition Area. At the same time, a handful of insights on impact investments were shared during the third day, in Panel H. The input...

On 24th of October, the CCIS has organized the Conference - "Inclusive growth in Serbia: overcoming MSME financing constraints", aimed: • To clearly communicate what is the Serbian MSME and SEs market • To understand diversification of...

On 5 June, 8 social enterprises from 5 Danube Region countries have participated in the mentoring Pitching Repair Session to prepare for delivering their presentations in front of the jury during the final conference of SENSES project on...

Video about the project, partners, beneficiaries, meetings... All about F4SC in pictures.

Workshop was held in Budapest in January 2019 and was a good opportunity for interaction between the project partners of Finance4SocialChange project and other project focused on social enterprises and funded by 3 different Interreg programmes,...

Regional Stakeholder Group Workshop hosted by IFKA on February 05 in Budapest was an opportunity for the key players in the social enterprise field of Hungary to meet and discuss the possible cooperation. 17 participant representing financial...

As a 100% spin‐off of Steinbeis‐Europa‐Zentrum (SEZ), Steinbeis 2i GmbH acts as a junction between economic stakeholders, policy makers on the one hand and Research and Technology Organizations on the other hand. With the...

Franja Gabrovsek Schmidt, representative of Regional development agency Gorenjska – BSC Kranj, presented Finance4SocialChange project on the "9. Days of social economy", a traditional event in Slovenia where interesting topics and project...