Social innovation - Business and Employment Co-operative Initiative in Danube region

Priority

Innovative and socially responsible Danube region - Increase competences for business and social innovation - Strengthen transnational water management and flood risk prevention - Support environmentally-friendly and safe transport systems and balanced accessibility of urban and rural areas - Improve institutional capacities to tackle major societal challenges

Project Idea Promoter
(name of the institution)

Centre for Community Organizing Moravia-Silesian Region

Needs and challenges
(Needs, main problems or challenges to be addressed)

BEC methodology as an important social innovation approach will provide support for disadvantaged people to influence and target on their self-employment and integration into the labor market based on the principles of social economy and social entreprene

Objectives
(main and specific objectives to be achieved)

BEC as a social incubator offers the starting entrepreneurs an easy transition from inactivity to employment. Under the guidance of mentors and coaches the new entrepreneurs (employees of BEC coops) can experiment with their business ideas. BEC provides a

Main results and core outputs

The innovation of the project is threefold, specifically conceived for Danube region: Implementation and spread of BEC methodology (social innovation developed through social impact firms and impact investing as driver of economic and social advancement);

Main foreseen activities

1. Analysis of barriers, and consolidated experiences of social innovation to transfer BEC methodology to the Danube region.

1.1 Further development and dissemination of BEC methodology, economy-law context and stakeholder analysis will be carried out

Innovative character of the project idea

The innovative aspects of the BEC method consist in leading groups of excluded people to gain entrepreneurial skills through training, coaching, and mentoring them to bear joint responsibility for their decisions and their prosperity. It motivates them to

Estimated Total Budget
(in EUR)

2 mil.

Estimated duration
(in months)

30

ERDF Partners

Regional Authorities, NGOs, ICT, Development Agencies

IPA Partners

Not yet

Associated Strategic Partners

Not yet

ERDF Partners

Local and Regional self-government, public institutions, Employment Agencies, RDAs and development agencies, Chambers, Universities, social innovators, research centres

IPA Partners

Public and public equivalent bodies interest to promote employment policies through social innovations

Associated Strategic Partners

No

Name

Ivo Skrabal

Address

V Zátiší 810/1, Ostrava – Mariánské Hory

Country

Czech Republic

Telephone number

+420777793714

E-mail address

ivo.skrabal@cpkp.cz

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