(Read the first part here)
After the four rounds, the participants organized in regional groups in the four tables, with the aim of get to know what ideas were provided during the previous activity and then to prioritize which were the most relevant priority actions, voting from 1 to 5 points with sticky points of different colours.
The list of priority actions per region that shall be taken into account in the elaboration of the regional Action Plans are the following (systematised from short to long-term):
BRANDEMBURG
- Legal Framework:
No priority
- Financial and Fiscal Support:
- Micro-credits
- KFW regulation champ
- Build a social business network (1)
- Innovation funds (16)
- Talk with our government
- Improve Infrastructures:
- Foster a network of SE
- Inform regional stakeholders (7)
- Ask for funding for social business incubator (13)
- DGST
- Social Innovation, Networks and Alliances:
- Social franchise (1)
- Regional awards and campaigns (13)
- Regional labelling
- Platform for SE (4)
- Regional supply change manager (2)
CASTILLA Y LEÓN
- Legal Framework:
- Experts working group in different fields
- Concept definition of Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship (26)
- Definition of SPAs
- Write a law based on that definition
- Impact measurement
- Create a regional association of social enterprises/entrepreneurship
- Create a register of social enterprises (3)
- Financial and Fiscal Support:
- Give more information about financial support alternatives (LEADER Programme) (1)
- Rise awareness, bank system about SE ‘times’ in SPAs
- Financial education for society
- Public-private co-financing (5)
- Financial education for schools
- Simplify tax system for SE in SPAs (1)
- Improve Infrastructures:
- Internet for everyone (Lapland model) (17)
- Business consulting (4)
- Co-working spaces
- Equip chambers of commerce with SE (knowledge/resources)
- Promote sharing economy apps (1)
- Increase online public services (4)
- Improve transport and mobility (9)
- Social Innovation, Networks and Alliances:
- Impact measurement standards (7)
- Mentoring network (on and off-line) (6)
- Networking activities (on and off-line) (3)
- Exchange training programmes (7)
- Networking activities with general society (not only SEs)
- Smart villages network (4)
GEMER
- Legal Framework:
- Lobby ministries to implement tax reliefs based on definition (1)
- Special department for social enterprises (11)
- Oral pitches instead of long applications
- Set up controls
- Learn from Estonia, f.i. digitalization (5)
- Transparency (1)
- Financial and Fiscal Support:
- Free/subsidized co-working spaces for starting businesses (3)
- Housing grants for young managers working in social businesses (5)
- Flexible micro-credits (14)
- Grant scheme crowd-funding
- Business development consulting (11)
- Bonuses for meeting the goals (3)
- Improve Infrastructures:
- Train consultants (10)
- Public transportation (6)
- Easy access to social institutions
- Medical help / distant consultation
- 100% internet connectivity
- Social Innovation, Networks and Alliances:
- Good practice examples (local, national and international) (5)
- Internships for business and schools (5)
- Supplying matching businesses (5)
- Education (formal, non-formal, practical) (7)
LAPLAND
- Legal Framework:
- Online platform for Social Enterprises success stories
- Define social enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Path description for what needs to be done when starting SE
- System for social impact measurement
- Reduction of bureaucracy – municipal reform
- Financial and Fiscal Support:
- Private sponsors for SE in region
- Promote social criteria in public procurement
- Improve Infrastructures:
- Raising awareness of digital medical solutions
- Social Innovation, Networks and Alliances:
- Creating and sustaining SE value chains
- Develop and encourage local supply for public procurement
Conclusions
This meeting helped to bring a deeper connection of the participants with the project and among themselves, exploring their personal and group interests and visions, and to reinforce the group relations with personal and group activities. A set of goals and priority actions for each of the pre-defined strategic lines were nailed down, serving as a basis for the design and definition of SOCENT SPAs’ four regional Action Plans, process that will continue during the next months until June 2019 when these Action Plans shall be evaluated by Interreg Europe Joint Secretary and launched in each participating region.
