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Regional Workshop: “Strengthening the Sustainability of Community-based Development through Social Entrepreneurship” Bratislava · 4 December 2009 . Introduction – The partnership.
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Regional Workshop: “Strengthening the Sustainability of Community-based Development through Social Entrepreneurship” Bratislava · 4 December 2009 Introduction – The partnership
Regional Workshop: “Strengthening the Sustainability of Community-based Development through Social Entrepreneurship”, Bratislava · 4 December 2009 Consolidating a successful alliance: THE PARTNERS Goal: to support UNDP’s priorities in poverty alleviation, promoting democratic governance and human rights (…)uniquely placed to help partners in government, civil society and the private sector to meet these challenges. UNDP is helping countries reform; (…); tackling crippling unemployment in the Western Balkans; boosting regional cooperation in Central Asia; providing high-level policy advice to governments in the Caucasus and Western CIS (…) UNDP-BRC Goal: to gradually build up a European corpus of theoretical and empirical knowledge around SE and other “Third Sector” issues. EMES (The EMES European Research Network) Euricse (European Research Institute on Cooperatives and Social Enterprises) Goal: to promote dialogue, knowledge sharing and innovative forms of collaboration among the growing number of scholars and research centers committed to study cooperatives and SEs.
Regional Workshop: “Strengthening the Sustainability of Community-based Development through Social Entrepreneurship”, Bratislava · 4 December 2009 Consolidating a successful alliance: THE HISTORY 2002 Participation of UNDP-BRC in the 1st conference on social economy held in CEE Fall 2005 Publication of ToR for study (December project starts) Dec 2007 1st joint event: Regional Workshop on SEs in CEE and the CIS (Brussels) July 2008 Launch of the joint publication in the course of the 2nd EMES-ISTR international conference July 2009 Signature of a MoU in the course of the 2nd international conference on social enterprise Dec 2009 2nd joint event: Regional workshop (Bratislava) 2010 Next steps?