Bringing Social Enterprises to Europe Tools, counseling and brokerage initiatives

1 Knowledge Center Social Europe (1) Knowledge Center Social Europe has 2 main activities > Informing the federations of the non profit sector and the Flemish regional authorities, among others department of welfare, public health and family about European Policy > Informing and supporting organizations (both public and private) in European subvention lines and projects

1 Knowledge Center Social Europe (2) Knowledge Center Social Europe is a member organization > Federations of the non profit sector (social economy, care for elderly and people with a disability, youth care, migrant and integration sector, hospitals) > Social enterprises out of the non profit sector

1 Knowledge Center Social Europe (3) Knowledge Center Social Europe has a strong network, in Flanders and Europe > Supported by different departments of the Flemish government > Supported by a wide range of federations of the non profit sector > Close collaboration with Vleva – Flemish- European liason agency > Active in different European formal and informal networks

2 Information and support for social enterprises (1) Basic Information > Selection of ca. 30 relevant subvention lines for the non profit sector > Mailservices for calls, partnersearches, information sessions and netwerkevents > Website (in development) with individual organisation profile (sector, which kind of project, to whom / what directed) + project databank

2 Information and support for social enterprises (2) A step further: brokerage tools and making the link > Screening of the priorities and ideas in the view of the development of a European strategy in the organization > Individual counseling (analysis of the project objectives, technical questions, advice for partnersearches, …) > Partnersearch (via our European networks we find the right partners) > Thematic contact seminars and brokerage events to ‘create’ projects

2 Information and support for social enterprises (3) Information sessions > Information sessions and networkevents for the non profit sector

Knowledge Center Social Europe European Policy Jos Sterckx +32 (0) , European An Rommel +32 (0) , CONTACT