Active Social Entrepreneurs
...supporting local and regional governments on journey towards social entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship introduction
Social entrepreneurship, where private individuals and organizations take the initiative to address social challenges within their communities...
Social entrepreneurship is the process of identifying, developing, and scaling solutions to social, cultural, and environmental issues through innovative and entrepreneurial approaches. Unlike traditional entrepreneurship, which focuses primarily on profit generation, social entrepreneurship seeks a dual objective: achieving a social or environmental mission while ensuring financial sustainability. Social enterprises can take various forms, including non-profit organizations that implement income-generating activities, cooperatives, for-profit entities with social missions, or hybrid models that blend both non-profit and for-profit structures.
Understanding this scope is crucial for municipalities to tailor their support mechanisms to the specific needs and types of social enterprises they aim to promote. In a municipal context, understanding the diverse forms and scopes of social entrepreneurship allows local governments to support a broad range of initiatives, from small cooperatives to larger organizations with scalable solutions.
ActSEnt objectives
ActSEnt, combining experience and activity from Czechia, Austria, Italy, Slovakia and Hungary has several general objectives:
1. To promote social entrepreneurship among young people and local governments’ structures and foster connections within the ecosystem
2. To increase social entrepreneurship skills among young people through tailored trainings
3. To improve readiness and response of municipalities towards social entrepreneurship initiatives
4. To achieve sustainability of project and its outputs through provision of replicable methodology and possible local and regional policy reforms
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Methodology of Social Entrepreneurship training implementation for municipalities
Research, data collection and analysis, mapping and framework development
Evaluation, Follow-up
Social Entrepreneurship training implementation
Social Entrepreneurship training preparation
Download ActSEnt Policy Reccommendation and Action plans
Social Ideas
Here is the list of social entrepreneurship ideas prepared by participants of our courses.
