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project info
Start date: 15 October 2019
End date: 14 October 2022
funding
Fund: European Social Fund (ESF)
Total budget: 2 760 067,20 €
EU contribution: 2 323 949,80 € (84,199%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Ministerul Fondurilor Europene

Solidarity in a new social, just and efficient economy

Developing the social economy sector and community welfare by supporting the establishment of 30 social enterprises and increasing people’s ability to materialise innovative social business ideas by developing entrepreneurial and managerial skills for 150 people who want to set up social enterprises. This project contributes to the achievement of the general objective of POCU “human resources development”, due to the activities aimed at developing entrepreneurial skills in conjunction with those specific to the management of innovation and technology transfer for a target group of at least 150 people over 18 years old who intend to set up a social business in urban and rural areas in one of the less developed regions in Romania, namely Centre, South-Muntenia and South-East. The project develops increased opportunities to set up innovative new businesses (funding of 30 innovative social economy structures of which 5 in rural areas) that will generate in the short and long term new jobs for people belonging to vulnerable groups, which will contribute to increasing competitiveness in the less developed regions of Romania, as well as to the social development of the community, but not least to the intelligent development of a sustainable economic environment, thanks to the assistance and support activities carried out within the project, through the partnership. The final goal of the project is that through formal and non-formal entrepreneurial education, with a focus on social entrepreneurship, at the level of less developed regions, based on social innovation and technological innovation, to increase the ability of individuals to materialise business ideas, this being achieved by promoting the entrepreneurial culture based on social innovation, supporting and supporting the new social affairs set up, which will contribute to the achievement of thematic objective 9 – Priority Axis 4-POCU. In the long term, the positive effect of the project is given by: developing skills is social entrepreneurship based on social innovation among at least 150 people, disseminating and acquiring the concepts of innovative entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial culture and social responsibility, transferring expertise and practical experiences to the target group, which will generate an increase in the number of social economy strains and their efficient management, strengthening the capacity of innovative social enterprises to develop and create new jobs targeted at vulnerable groups. However, the specific objective of investment priority 9v of POCU will be achieved.

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