Pursuant to the Law on Enterprises of Social and Solidarity Economy (LPISI), the creation, registration and maintenance of a distinctive certification mark for social enterprises is envisaged. The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy (MLSP), in collaboration with the National Academy of Art Sofia, held a competition among the Academy students for the design of […]
JEDI – Electric Wheelchairs for Children with Special Needs, and Meteo.Rocks – Intelligent Weather Stations, are the Winners of the Rinker’s Challenge # 4 The winners of the Competition for Start-up Entrepreneurs – Rinker’s Challenge # 4 are announced. This year Rinker Center at BCause Foundation had 111 candidates, 14 won a place in the training program, and 13 […]
The guidelines for Bulgaria’s social economy and social entrepreneurship policy during the year under review were established by the National Social Economy Concept (approved by the Council of Ministers on 4 Apr., 2014), the 2014-2015 Social Economy Action Plan (approved by the same body on 29 Jan., 2014), and the subsequent 2016-2017 Social Economy Action […]
Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy Ivanka Shalapatova today opened the European Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. The forum includes a European conference on “Social entrepreneurship – the basis for sustainable growth” and Fair for social enterprises and cooperatives for people with disabilities. The exhibition will run until March 24 in the Court of International […]
Social economy and social entrepreneurship form a new policy area as far as the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy is concerned. Within the gamut of policies pursued steadily by the state through the Ministry, it was first broached in the National Concept of Social Economy, adopted by the Council of Ministers on 4 April, […]
The adopted by the Council of Ministers National Social Economy Concept and Social Economy Action Plan 2014-2015 are the first documents to set the beginning of a targeted, coordinated state policy focusing on social enterprises. The measures included in the Action Plan aim at supporting the establishment of the social enterprises’ sector in the country […]
After two successful editions of the EMES PhD Summer Schools, at the University of Corsica (France) in 2008 and Roskilde University (Denmark) in 2010, the third edition will be held in Trento (Italy) in July 2012. The previous editions constituted outstanding successes, with over 79 students from over 28 countries taking part in the summer […]
Subject: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European Social Entrepreneurship Funds. Ref.: COM(2011) 862 final – 2011/0418 (COD) Download file.doc (51 KB) Procedure Council referral: 20 January 2012 European Parliament referral: Legal basis: Article 114 of the TFEU Committee Bureau decision: 17 January 2012 Section responsible: Single Market, Production and […]
