SENSES - Strengthening Social Entrepreneurial Landscape through involving socially responsible corporate Practices in EntrepreNeurial CompetenceS and Skills enhancement in the DANUBE region
Social enterprises (SEs) are important drivers for inclusive growth and play key role in tackling current economic, environmental and societal challenges. However, examples of missing policy and legal frameworks, social investment markets and social entrepreneurship education are very common.
Motivated by the above challenge, the SENSES project aims to create a transnational network of social enterprises (SEs), socially responsible traditional businesses, (social) financial investors, policy-makers, academia, NGO practitioners composed by 600-800 members in total in the Danuberegion which will jointly promote an innovative social enterprise model as well as social innovation for the sustainable economic development of the Danube region.
SENSES, bringing together a partnership of dynamic and collaborative international environment of 8 Danube region partner countries and 5 associated strategic partners from Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Moldova and Belgium show divers picture of low viability of business models of existing social enterprises, nascent social investors and investment markets, mainly probono and donation-based SE acceleration programmes and fragile relationships between SEs and market actors.
As main achievement of project partners, 60 hours long digital (e-learning) material co-developed and co-designed by all partners will be created including theoretical economics, management, marketing, HR as well as sales management modules together with personalized mentoring and coaching led by CSR corporate representatives as a practice-driven “blended learning experience” for social enterprises in the Danube region.
SENSES Acceleration programme
- Start date
- 01-01-2017
- End date
- 30-06-2019
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 1530777,5
- ERDF Contribution: 1206904,37
- IPA Contribution: 94256,5
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 1
- Priority
- Innovative and socially responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Increase competences for business and social innovation
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Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFKA Public Benefit Non-Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry | Lead partner | baracsi@ifka.hu | Hungary |
| RERA a.s. – Regional Development Agency of South Bohemia | ERDF partner | radimec@rera.cz | Czech Republic |
| BSC Business Support Centre Ltd., Kranj | ERDF partner | helena.cvenkel@bsc-kranj.si | Slovenia |
| TCCIA Timis Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture | ERDF partner | cmirea@cciat.ro | Romania |
| SBA Slovak Business Agency | ERDF partner | dubrovayova@sbagency.sk | Slovakia |
Project News
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SENSES - SENSES project partners' team
- 29-05-2017
Some partners from our SENSES project have send us a picture of their great team with project poster so far, which show the following photos. We say thank you for the pictures. (Otherwise the partners’ official websites are available by...
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SENSES - First regional stakeholder meeting held in Cakovec, Croatia
- 25-05-2017
Regional development agency Međimurje REDEA Ltd. held their first regional stakeholder meeting on the 24th May 2017. The aim of the round table was to bring together representatives of cooperatives, associations, companies, institutions, public...
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SENSES - SENSES at ’MAF’ Hungarian Donor Forum’s ’Catalyst Workshop’ event
- 27-04-2017
On the 28th of April, the Hungarian Donor Forum organizes its ’Catalyst Workshop’, where the IFKA team will get a deeper insight into Hungarian good practices of corporate social responsibility. Participants will also discuss each practices and...
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SENSES - SENSES at Impact Brunch
- 27-04-2017
On the 25th of April 2017, Impact Brunch by Impact Hub Budapest has been organized with the mission to strengthen cooperations between social enterprise accelerators, policymakers and investors following the World Café methodology. The...
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SENSES - Forthcoming strategic discussion between ERSTE Group and IFKA
- 19-04-2017
On the 21 April 2017, the Vienna-based Erste Group’s Social Banking division and IFKA IFKA Public Benefit Non-Profit Ltd. for the Development of Industry organize its forthcoming strategic discussion. The aims of the meeting are to identify and...
