ESII Project partners meeting and final conference in Ruse

On the 17^th and 18^th July 2017 ESII partners attended the fifth and final transnational meeting in Ruse, hosted by Ruse Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Being the last partners’ meeting of the project, its main aim was to examine and present last project activities in order to check them and collect input from partners to prepare the Final Report.
The main issues discussed were:

• Pilot test and multipliers events: implemented activities and main achievements, preliminary findings and feedbacks from participants and stakeholders involved;
• Collection and evaluation of results: number of questionnaires collected by partners through the SurveyMonkey platform;
• Dissemination and exploitation activities: monitoring of communication and dissemination efforts, debate and plans on project results sustainability.
• Final Report preparation: plans to collect input from the partners, contribution required by partners and instruction on supporting document to be provided.

During the two day meeting, Ruse Chamber of Commerce and Industry also organized the final conference of the project, which had the following agenda:

Support for Social Innovation

09:45 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10:10 Opening of the Conference

10:10 – 10:30 Presentation of the European Social Challenges Platform – Ciara Davali, EBN – Brussels

10:30 – 11:00 Presentation of ECVET Profile and Online Training Course for Experts in Social Innovation Incubation – ESII Project Team

11:00 – 11:30 Circular Economy and Social Entrepreneurship – Asen Nenov

11:30 – 12:00 Successful Business Models for Social Entrepreneurship – Emanuele Musa, BABELE platform

12:00 – 12:20 Entrepreneurship for Not-for-profit Organizations – Pavleta Aleksieva, Programme Director of Bulgarian Center for Not-for-profit Law

12:20 – 12:40 Cloud Services and Social Innovations – Emil Parashkevov, Juliana Parashkevova, Incess Ltd.

12:40 – 13:00 Effective Services for Financing of Social Inclusion and Sustainable Employment – Elena Bogdanova, Regional Employment Agency                                                                                                                                                                

13:00 – 13:20 OP “Human Resources Development” as an Opportunity for Financing of Social Entrepreneurship. Best practices from Bulgaria – Gabriela Stefanova, District Information Point – Ruse

13:20 – 13:35 Colloborative Economy and Social Innovations – Petya Gancheva

13:35 – 14:30 Lunch. Networking