SENSES Strengthening Social Entrepreneurial Landscape through involving socially responsible corporate Practices in EntrepreNeurial CompetenceS and Skills enhancement in the DANUBE region

Last week SENSES partners visited Ceske Budejovice for their 3rd Seminar & Study-visit. Partners had a chance to get to know local social business and meet the owners. Most of the social business are sustainable and some even support other social...

Representative of the Slovak Business Agency accepted the invitation to participate in the conference "Application of the social economy in regions with increased concentration of marginalized Roma communities" organized by Združenie mladých...

On the 8 March 2018, IFKA Public Benefit Non Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry, SENSES coordinator, is hosting the upcoming Capitalization Workshop in Budapest. The event brings together Thematic Pole 1 - Innovative ecosystem for...

We are happy to announce that the DTP Capitalisation Strategy Handbook has already been accessible! The aim of the Capitalization Strategies is to share new development ideas and experiences of partners to realize synergies in the Duna Region....

Social enterprises need more visibility in your region? Joining to European Social Economy Regions 2018 pilot should be part of the trick! The aim of the pilot is to build effective networks of the social economy and social innovation...

"In Slovakia, social innovators are not sufficiently professionally interconnected. This is a special situation, as the community is not that big, and the respondents themselves admit that they know each other.... In addition to distrust, one of...

SENSES project’s First Year Review has been completed successfully on the 31st of January 2018. The event has been organized at the official headquarters of IFKA Public Benefit Non-Profit Ltd. for the Development of Industry in Budapest. During...

Regional development agency Gorenjska, BSC Kranj on 5th and 6th of December 2017 hosted the SENSES Seminar and Study visit. The seminar started with presentation of legislation on social entrepreneurship in Slovenia and prospects of social...

On 13th November 2017, South Muntenia Regional Development Agency (SMRDA) organized in Calarasi, Romania, their first stakeholder meeting within the SENSES project. Participants at the event were representatives of social enterprises, public...

We are happy to announce that the second Hungarian Stakeholder Group Meeting has been organized by IFKA Public Benefit Nonprofit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry on the 14th of November 2017 at Impact Hub Budapest. The moderator of the...

Regional development agency Međimurje REDEA Ltd. held their second regional stakeholder meeting on the 22nd November 2017 in Cakovec. The aim of the meeting was to present the current activities of the project, in particular a benchmarking...

Minister of labour and pension system of the Republic of Croatia Marko Pavic opened the conference "Social Entrepreneurship in Croatia - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" held in Zagreb on 14th November 14 2017. At the beginning, he addressed the...

We are proud to announce that the Joint Secretariat of the Danube Transnational Programme has chosen the SENSES Project as a best practice and explored two of the concerned enterprises to present their experiences and the secret of their...

We are happy to announce that IFKA Public Benefit Non Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry, representing Thematic Pole 3 Entrepreneurial Learning System of the Danube Transnational Programme has been invited to join the XIV. PA7...

Calling all social entrepreneurs out there. By filling in the SENSES survey you will contribute to the development of tailored tools for training, responding to the needs of social enterprises and to the formulation of policy recommendations,...

SENSES partners gathered in beautiful Vienna on 19th and 20th September 2017 to jointly discuss project progress and next steps in project. Hosts of seminar and study visit were project partners from ZSI Centre for Social Innovation, notably...

The Lead Partner of SENSES is happy to announce that its submission to the Interreg Volunteer Youth (IVY) has been successful. IFKA is second in the partnership to apply, right after ZSI from Austria to apply to the same programme. This way both...

Some partners from our SENSES project have send us a picture of their great team with project poster so far, which show the following photos. We say thank you for the pictures. (Otherwise the partners’ official websites are available by...

Regional development agency Međimurje REDEA Ltd. held their first regional stakeholder meeting on the 24th May 2017. The aim of the round table was to bring together representatives of cooperatives, associations, companies, institutions, public...

On the 28th of April, the Hungarian Donor Forum organizes its ’Catalyst Workshop’, where the IFKA team will get a deeper insight into Hungarian good practices of corporate social responsibility. Participants will also discuss each practices and...