Green projects news
On 23.11.2022 at the Launchee Center in Sofia Dimitar Hristov and Dimitar Filipov from KISMC and Stanislav Chervenkov and Teodora Sotirova from CEED, all of them members of the Cluster Sofia Knowledge City took part in a seminar that was organised by CEED Bulgaria.
In the seminar were presented the goals and tasks as well as the achieved results of the following three projects:
The presented projects were united with a common topic of social and green entrepreneurship.
Dimitar Hristov presented the Fight Climate Change project (FCC) as a part of the dissemination strategy of this project and then took part in a discussion panel on a topic "Perspectives for the development of social entrepreneurship in Bulgaria". At the discussion, he made a presentation named "The green entrepreneurship - business cases". During the presentation there was a discussion on the similarities and differences between traditional and social entrepreneurship. Based on the toolkits that are currently in preparation under the project FCC he proposed a definition of the term "green entrepreneurship" and open a discussion the question about the role of green entrepreneurship in the fight against climate change. During the discussion, two from the collected under this project case studies with supportive videos were presented.
Dimitar Filipov talked about the goals for the Degrebe project with an emphasis on the role of gamification and the entrepreneurial skills the green economy is needed. Exemplary case studies taken from the Degrebe and FCC projects trainings and meetings in Brussels and Cyprus were presented.
Stanislav Chervenkov presented the Joint Venture project, which aims to build a fairer and more inclusive society through social entrepreneurship and new ways of a collaboration among the societal players. He emphasized on the influence and benefits and trends of social entrepreneurship and shared some good practices and prospects for the development of social entrepreneurship and the green economy in Bulgaria.
More about social entrepreneurship and how to self-assess yourself as a social entrepreneur (SE) or mentor of SEs can be found here: http://www.baset.info/. In case mentors or/and investors in social entrepreneurship are interested on tools for design thinking and solving problems of social entrepreneurship they could familiarize themselves with the results of a similar project here www.i2sustainit.eu.
