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Ease&See: overview and highlights
Andrea Jester – Project Coordinator
City of Venice Belgrade, November 3 - 2014
The creation of structural pre-conditions for social enterprises for better utilization of the possibilities of the
South East economic area.
Public Authorities
FinancialIndustry
Profit Industry
New slcial business clustering models
Project’s main objective
The concept behind the objective
The Commission recognizes the added value
of social enterprise in Europe for several reasons
Sometimes it is a matterof making things happen
and bringing “people”together
Knowledge
Resources (€)
Business
The project at a glance: the core WPs
Where we are and
should go
Availability of
resources
Sustainability of
ideas
From theory to
practice
EvidenceStakeholdersDatabase
GuidelinesActorsDatabase
PlaygroundsActorsDatabase
ActionFuture of PPP in SEE
Examples: S-Academy
The project supported the expansion to
other areas of Slovenia and
internationalization process (new office
in the UK)
Sector: Food&catering
Driver: Slovenian entrepreneur
Originating idea: J.O. Foundation
Examples: Academy-S
Academy-S: success factors
Entrepreneurial spirit from the beginning (no facilitations from public sector)
Detailed business model (Slokar spent 3 months in calculating even how to
optimize the purchase costs of salt and pepper!!!)
Involvement of international stakeholders to review the idea (Jamie Oliver)
Involvement of local entrepreneurs
Give visibility only when economic success was clear
Leverage on CSR of private companies and responsible supply chain
Academy-S: the involvement chain
PUBLIC SECTOR IS NOT FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING THE PROJECT
The project supported creation
of a new business area, new
relationships and the raise of a
new e-commerce platform (H-
Farm Ict incubator)
Sector: Accessories&Fashion
Driver: Social Cooperative
Originating idea: founders of the cooperative
Examples: Rio Terà dei Pensieri
Rio terà dei pensieri: success factors
Good Public Private Partnership: Female prison of the City of Venice and rio Terà
Extremely committed female entrepreneurs (working the first 12 months for free!!)
Willingness to expand activities and experiment new concepts (nothing has to stay the
same for more than 6 months)
Curiosity (they invest money in “picking ideas”)
Only recently: busines model based approach
Rio Terà: the involvement chain
PUBLIC SECTOR IS COMMITTED BUT HAS REDUCES FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE MINIMUM
The project provided support
to the business modeling,
project financing and
marketing concept of the
center
Sector: Sustainable Commerce
Driver: Social Cooperative and for profit companies
Originating idea: entrepreneurs
Examples: Smart City Center
Smart City Center: success factors
Leverage on citizens sensibility on “green and ecological business” (City of Graz is
one of the most brilliant Smart Cities of Central Europe)
Intuition of entrepreneus (and good calculations on earnings deriving from retail
investment)
Great visibility on “smart city” concepts and city planning vision of ARGE
Intensive cooperation between social enterprises, “green economy industry”, local
artisans/craftsmen
Committment of public administration in accelerating investment and construction
Smart city Center: the involvement chain
PUBLIC SECTOR IS COMMITTED AND CO-WORKING ON INVESTMENT AND REFURBISHMENT PLANS
Thank you for your attention!
Further questions:
Andrea [email protected]
[email protected]+39 3429963215
