1. George Isaias A Journey in Social Entrepreneurship

2. Milestones 2006 - 20092010 - 2016 October 2006 ACTA VISTA, FRANCE Project “CEPE” 2010 Reorganisation & New Mission 1 st Soc. Ent. Conference 2011 2015 HUB NICOSIA 3rd Soc. Ent. Conference 2nd Soc. Ent. Conference Sep. 2013 Feb. 2013 2008 “Cultural Heritage for Employment Conference in Nicosia “Social Entrepreneurship: A new paradigm that can help Cyprus address its challenges“ Piloted a Social Enterprise Model “Gardens of the World.” 4th Soc. Ent. Conference 2016 20122013 Across the divide

3. 2006 A Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) in Marseille, France Purpose / Beneficiaries / Model

4. “Cultural Heritage for Employment” Conference in Nicosia 2008 Follow up to set up a similar model in Cyprus

5. 2010 & the power of the name.

6. 2010 “SYNTHESIS” has a new mission ”To inspire, develop, and support social enterpreneurship.”

7. 1 st Social Entrepreneurship Conf. 2010 7 November 2010, University of Nicosia partners

9. 2011 The "Ignite Europe" project (2011-2013) aimed to enable the target group (VET teachers, trainers, tutors and VET institution managers) to deliver a programme of support to encourage and develop social entrepreneurship with students facing difficulties in the labour market. The developed training programme was based on the successful IGNITE training developed by the South Sefton Development Trust, UK.

10. Piloted a Social Enteprise Scheme “Gardens of the World” - Aimed to link employment of vulnerable groups in gardening/reforesting jobs - Self-financed - Failed but with useful lesssons 2012

11. “Social Entrepreneurship: Innovation for the Future” 13 Feb. 2013 13 February 2013, University of Nicosia

12. Based at the Buffer Zone, in view of spreading the spirit of social entrepreneurship across both communities - Speeches - Seminars - Conferences 2013 – 2015

13. “Social Entrepreneurship in an Economic Crisis” 2013 26 September 2016, Home for Cooperation

14. Consulting - “A Map of Social Enterprises and their Ecosystem in Europe” - “Social Entrepreneurship Network” 2013 – 2015

15. “Hub Nicosia is a multi-space, educational and co-working center, and community of organisations and enterprises with a social mission” 2015

16. Our mission is that Hub Nicosia becomes the Hub of Social Entrepreneurs and Innovators

17. “Public Policies that can support the development of Social Enterprises”

18. "Social Entrepreneurship: A new paradigm that can help Cyprus to address its challenges“ (George Isaias and Ruediger Kaufmann) Dec. 2011 The paper discussed social and environmental challenges in Cyprus (unemployment and waste of electrical and electronic equipment) Examined how social entrepreneurs address these issues in other countries through the cases of Acta Vista, Job Factory, and Recycla Chile Proposed a model of social entrepreneurship that can be adopted to address those issues locally.

19. Main Policy Recommendations - Legal / Regulatory Framework - Access to Funding/Financing - Training & Support - Access to Markets Paper (Isaias & Kaufmann)

20. PROFIT PLANET PEOPLE Social Enterprise Support Private Sector Public Sector Municipalities S.E Social Enterprise Network Development Model for Social Enterprises

21. Legal / Regulatory Framework - Define what a “Social Enterprise” is - Create a “Registry of Social Enterprises” of entities that fit the definition

22. Funding / Financing / Taxation Combination of - Start – up Capital (in form of Grants) - Loans with a low interest rate Tax incentives: - e.g. No VAT, other?

23. Training / Support / Networking - Help the development of social enterprise support structures (business support, mentoring, assistance to access funding / financing, etc) - Network

24. Access to Markets - Elimination of any market barriers - Public Procurements: take into consideration “Social Value”

25. Raising Awareness of Social Entrepreneurship Why / Who? How? Media coverage, seminars, conferences, competitions, mainstreaming in education, other? The “Heroes” Project

26. Other “Policy” Recommendation Formulate a “Policy” on how to deal with hostility of interest groups who do not favour the development of the sector in Cyprus

27. Contact info: E-mail: isaias@synthesis-center.comisaias@synthesis-center.com Mob. 99571660

28. 7 November 2010, University of Nicosia