A €1m grant by the European Commission for business incubators to expand their outreach to inclusive and social entrepreneurship.
Objective: To mobilise existing network(s) of “mainstream” business incubators to expand their outreach to inclusive and social entrepreneurship, or to team up with niche incubators targeting (potential) entrepreneurs from under-represented groups including social entrepreneurs.
Programme: European Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI)
Institutions: European Commission – Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL)
Type: A single grant between EUR 1,000,000 and EUR 1,300,000
Who is eligible:
- An established formal network of business incubators with its own legal personality or representing an established formal network; OR
- A consortium of several established networks
A single applicant, or the consortium jointly, must have members established in at least 14 EU Member States and in at least one non-EU EaSI participating country. It must be a public or private entity of any type and legally established in one of the EaSI participating countries.
Requirements:
Activities promoting the concepts “inclusive and social entrepreneurship” amongst all individual member organisations (Transferring knowledge and building capacities amongst member organisations to equip them with the skills to work with entrepreneurs in these fields). The (non-exhaustive) list of activities includes:
- Gathering, production and diffusion of relevant information materials
- Study visits and exchange of good practices
- Training activities, webinars, seminars, conferences
- Developing business support services for inclusive and social entrepreneurs
- Actions aiming at creating and improving connections to stakeholders in inclusive and social entrepreneurship
- Awareness and dissemination actions amongst the network’s members and towards the wider audience
- etc.