Adie, microcredit specialist in France

Cristina Barbetta

Adie is the pioneering association for microcredit in France and the largest in the country. Born in 1989, it creates more than 200 new jobs a week and counts 450 employees and 13,000 volunteers.

A social enterprise to make New Zealand 100% accessible

Cristina Barbetta

It’s called Be.Accessible and it has the vision to make the world a place where every person has the opportunity to reach their true potential. Since its foundation, in 2011, the social enterprise has mobilized hundreds of businesses, public spaces, infrastructures, workers and employees.

Solidarity Salt, integrating migrants thanks to salt

Cristina Barbetta

Solidarity salt is a new social enterprise empowering women refugees in Greece through selling sea salt, developing at the same time the local economy.

This is how French families welcome elderly people

Cristina Barbetta

Cette famille is a French social enterprise allowing elderly people to have an alternative to retirement homes, thanks to a network of welcoming families (familles d’accueil).

The portable lamp plugged in the sunshine

Martino Pillitteri

Little Sun Solar Lamp, a new social business frontier envisioned by installation artist Olafur Eliasson. A global project that is transforming over a million lives through the awesome power of the sun

13 recommendations to support the development of social entrepreneurship

Staff

The European Commission Expert Group on Social Entrepreneurship ( GECES) issues a key report of recommendations to all stakeholders involved in supporting the development of social entrepreneurship as a way to promote sustainable growth in Europe. The report is a call for action to the European Commission, member states as well as social enterprise organisations, to increase the political focus on and resources dedicated to social entrepreneurship in Europe.

FabriQ, innovation starts from the outskirts

Cristina Barbetta

FabriQ is the city of Milan’s incubator for social innovation. Located in the outskirt of Quarto Oggiaro, it supports the best enterprise ideas with strong social impact.

“We’ll tackle poverty and Italy’s slot machine plague”

Staff

In an interview with ‘Vita’, the leading Italian non-profit magazine coming out on 9 September, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced new measures to tackle poverty and take slot machines out of commercial businesses

France awards social innovation

Cristina Barbetta

"La France s'engage", an initiative by French President François Hollande promoting and supporting the most promising social innovations in the country, is creating a real movement for social enterprise in France. Winners of the fifth edition of the initiative, that will finish in 2017, were announced at the Élysée Palace in Paris on the 31st of August.

5 reasons why social entrepreneurship is the new business model

Staff

Embracing a career with meaning and earning income but giving top priority to an explicit social mission. This is a privilege that only social entrepreneurs can experience.