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 Irina Vana and Katharina Handler. 

Big topic of the seminar was SENSES synthesis report on policy niches and benchmarking and needs for training for Social Entrepreneurs. This is the 1st step of our curriculum development, a training and mentoring tool in e-form that will be available on SENSES web page. 

On Wednesday 20th September all partners visited 3 examples of SE: “Guter Stoff”, a shop for high quality t-shirts and organic textiles, “Acticell”, a company dedicated to develop innovative solutions for emerging trends in the textile industry and “Dialogue in the Dark“, an exhibitions where you don’t see anything at all.

Next seminar and study visit will be held in Kranj in Slovenia in December 2017.

More photos of the seminar and study visit are available on our Facebook site.