Development of Financial Ecosystems for the Promotion of Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Regions

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Central Europe

Date of latest update: 2023-11-15

Description

Description (EN):

European rural regions are currently facing several societal challenges, especially aging of population, brain drain and unemployment. Social innovation becomes more important to develop solutions to these problems and the promotion of social entrepreneurship (SE) is an important contribution to facilitate the economic transformation process especially in rural areas. Nevertheless, the traditional business support infrastructures and measures operated by regional or local authorities are not adapted to the special needs of social enterprises. There is a general lack of knowledge and understanding how social entrepreneurship evolves and works and how it can be efficiently promoted. The main objective of the project is the promotion of social entrepreneurship in rural regions with special transformation challenges to advance economic and social innovation. The rural regions Saalekreis (DE), Hajdu Bihar (HU), Duga Resa (CR) and rural areas in Piedmont Region (IT) work together with the specific objective to improve funding for public support structures for social entrepreneurship and further develop finance and funding instruments for social enterprises. The project wants to facilitate a quadruple helix cooperation process of regional and local stakeholders for social entrepreneurship in a rural environment. The partners will develop a toolbox for promotion of social entrepreneurship in rural regions, which will be tested in four pilot projects. 8 capacity building seminars with focus on municipalities and finance institutions will be organised to further spread the developed knowledge. Finally, 4 actions plans will be developed in the partner regions to ensure sustainability and mainstreaming of project results. The project will allow a transnational mutual learning process of partners with similar challenges and different experiences. The transfer and adaptation of experiences for promotion of social entrepreneurship in a rural environment is innovative.

Achievements (EN):

European rural regions are facing several societal challenges, especially an ageing population, brain drain and unemployment. Social innovation becomes more important for developing solutions that are sustainable. There is a clear need to adapt business support infrastructures and measures offered by regional or local authorities to the special needs of social enterprises. The DelFin project is promoting social entrepreneurship in rural regions which face special transformation challenges related to advancing economic and social innovation. The participating rural regions in Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Italy worked together to improve funding schemes for supporting social entrepreneurship. The project facilitated cooperation of quadruple helix actors and developed a toolbox for the promotion of social entrepreneurship in rural regions, as well as a transnational strategy for promotion of social entrepreneurship in rural regions. All was tested in four pilot actions in each partner country. In addition, eight capacity building seminars with a focus on municipalities and finance institutions were organised to further spread the knowledge. Moreover, the participating regions are now equipped with action plans to ensure sustainability and mainstreaming of project results. Please take a look at the project results and outputs below.

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Expected Results (EN): R 1.2 Status of capacities of the public and private sector for skills development of employees and entrepreneurial competences achieved through transnational cooperation driving economic and social innovation in central European regions.

Expected Outputs (EN):

The project will improve the capacity of public authorities to promote social entrepreneurship under the specific challenges and framework conditions of rural areas. The transnational cooperation will be used to identify common challenges and good practice. Regional and local public economic promotion policy actors will have a better knowledge about the specific requirements of social entrepreneurship and possible actions for its promotion resulting in improved policies. The financial ecosystem that provides funding and financing for creation and further development and growth of social enterprises will be improved by creation of tools especially adapted to the needs of social entrepreneurs. Existing business support structures like business incubators and accelerators will extend their activities from traditional Start-up support to the promotion of social entrepreneurship. The project will also support the creation of social impact hubs in rural regions. The establishment of hybrid financial instruments under involvement of public and private financial institutions will be facilitated. The project will highlight the importance of social entrepreneurship for the contribution to regional economic and societal development. It can motivate more people to transform their social innovation ideas into enterprises. Finally, these social enterprises will result in a more sustainable development of the rural areas overcoming existing social, economic and environmental problems.

Thematic information

Rural and peripheral development SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: To improve skills and entrepreneurial competences for advancing economic and social innovation in central European regions

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (8)

Lead Partner: Investitionsbank Sachsen-Anhalt, AöR

Address: Domplatz 12, 39104 Magdeburg, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ib-sachsen-anhalt.de

Total budget: EUR 445 030.60

ERDF budget: EUR 356 024.48

Finpiemonte S.p.A.

Name: Finpiemonte S.p.A.

Department: Agevolazioni e Strumenti Finanziari

Address: Galleria San Federico 54, 10121 Torino, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.finpiemonte.it

Total budget: EUR 306 315.50

ERDF budget: EUR 245 052.40

Merseburger Innovations- und Technologiezentrum GmbH

Name: Merseburger Innovations- und Technologiezentrum GmbH

Address: Fritz-Haber-Str. 5, 06217 Merseburg, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.mitz-merseburg.de

Total budget: EUR 303 992.00

ERDF budget: EUR 243 193.60

Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

Name: Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

Department: Turin Office of FGB (local unit) department for Open & Social Innovation

Address: Via Solferino 32, 00185 Rome, Italy

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.fondazionebrodolini.it

Total budget: EUR 255 022.40

ERDF budget: EUR 204 017.92

Hajdú-Bihar Vármegye Önkormányzata

Name: Hajdú-Bihar Vármegye Önkormányzata

Address: Piac Street 54, 4024 Debrecen, Hungary

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hbmo.hu

Total budget: EUR 199 176.50

ERDF budget: EUR 169 300.02

IFKA Iparfejlesztési Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft.

Name: IFKA Iparfejlesztési Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft.

Department: Unit of International Cooperation

Address: Andrássy street 100, 1062 Budapest, Hungary

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ifka.hu

Total budget: EUR 181 406.80

ERDF budget: EUR 154 195.78

BRODOTO d.o.o.

Name: BRODOTO d.o.o.

Address: Marticeva 72, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.brodoto.com

Total budget: EUR 114 421.92

ERDF budget: EUR 97 258.63

Grad Duga Resa

Name: Grad Duga Resa

Address: Trg sv. Jurja 1, 47250 Duga Resa, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.dugaresa.hr

Total budget: EUR 113 535.50

ERDF budget: EUR 96 505.18

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Project partner

Summary

Project name (EN): Development of Financial Ecosystems for the Promotion of Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Regions

Project acronym: DelFin

Project start date: 2019-04-01

Project end date: 2022-03-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 918 901.22

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 565 548.01

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 82.50%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 565 548.01.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

TRANSNATIONAL STRATEGY FOR PROMOTION OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RURAL REGIONS

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/DelFin.html

Publication date: 2023-02-15

Document date: 2022-03-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Pilot Implementation - Evaluation Report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/DelFin.html

Publication date: 2023-02-15

Document date: 2021-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

FINAL IMPLEMENTATION REPORT CROATIA

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/DelFin.html

Publication date: 2023-02-15

Document date: 2021-05-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

FINAL IMPLEMENTATION REPORT HUNGARY

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/DelFin.html

Publication date: 2023-02-15

Document date: 2021-05-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

FINAL IMPLEMENTATION REPORT GERMANY

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/DelFin.html

Publication date: 2023-02-15

Document date: 2021-05-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

FINAL IMPLEMENTATION REPORT ITALY

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/DelFin.html

Publication date: 2023-02-15

Document date: 2021-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

REPORT ON CAPACITY BUILDING SEMINARS RESULTS ACHIEVEMENTS

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/DelFin.html

Publication date: 2023-02-15

Document date: 2022-03-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

DEVELOPMENT OF FINANCIAL ECOSYSTEMS FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RURAL REGIONS

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/DelFin.html

Publication date: 2023-02-15

Document date: 2022-03-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Central Europe

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2023-11-02

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1 434 / 1 434 (100%)

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Development of Financial Ecosystems for the Promotion of Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Regions

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