The DAISSy Research Group of the HOU announces the start of the registration for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Social Entrepreneurship, in Greek, English, French and Arabic. Registration has started!

The DAISSY Research Group of the Hellenic Open University announces the start of the registration for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Social Entrepreneurship and invites you to register.

The MOOC in Social Entrepreneurship is open to anyone interested:

• get to know what the Social and Solidarity Economy is through specific examples and its actors,
• learn how a group is formed and operates, the cell of each Social and Solidarity Economy project
• to systematically look at ways of choosing which economic activity meets the objectives of the Social and Solidarity Economy
• to get acquainted with marketing techniques directly linked to the Social and Solidarity Economy
• to finally get to know technical tools (business plan creation, economic and technical planning, etc.) that will allow him/her to put into practice the objective of social change through the Social and Solidarity Economy.
• to launch or develop a business venture based on the principles of the Social and Solidarity Economy,

The MOOC is offered in four languages: Greek, English, French and Arabic.

It will start on 15 September 2022 and the participants will need three weeks in order to complete the course.

Participants who successfully complete the MOOC in Social Entrepreneurship will receive a certificate of completion. In addition, they will have the opportunity (under certain conditions) to receive support for the development of their business ideas that contribute to the economic integration of refugees based on the principles of Social and Solidarity Economy, in the framework of the Social Hackathon for the Economic Integration of Refugees through Social Entrepreneurship which will take place in Ioannina, from 9 to 12 October 2022.

Register for the MOOC in Social Entrepreneurship at the following link: https://bit.ly/3Q7AINs

MOOC in Social Entrepreneurship and Social Hackathon are implemented in the framework of the project “REInSER: Economic Integration of Refugees through Social Entrepreneurship”. The main objective of the REInSER project is to contribute to improving the prospects of refugees for economic, and, more broadly, social integration in the host countries of the Adriatic-Ionian region, using social economy approaches, and in particular those of social entrepreneurship.

The REInSER project is implemented in the framework of the Adriatic-Ionian Interreg ANDRION Transnational Cooperation Program funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) II.

REInSER brings together 8 project partners from academia, business support organisations and local authorities gathering different expertise, knowledges and skills in 6 countries of the ADRION area, namely, Slovenia, Italy, Greece, BiH, Serbia and Croatia.

In Greece, the project partner is the DAISSY Research Group and the associated partners are the Special Service “ESPA Executive Structure, Employment & Social Economy Sector” of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, ANKA, and e-Trikala.

More information on the DAISSy Research Group:

• Website               : daissy.eap.gr
• Facebook            : @DAISSyResearchGroup
• Linkedin              : www.linkedin.com/in/daissyresearchgroup/
• Twitter                : @daissy_research
• Instagram           : @daissy_researchgroup
• Email                    : info@daissy.eap.gr

The International Conference “Economic and Social Inclusion of Asylum Seekers and Refugees through Social Entrepreneurship” will be held on March 10^th, 2022, at the University of Bologna, in the framework of the REInSER project, whose partner is the DAISSy Research Group of the Hellenic Open University.

Contributions focusing on theoretical approaches, policies and practices and projects to integrate refugees through social entrepreneurship are invited. Applications from senior and junior scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and everyone who works or has an interest on the Conference theme are accepted. As for scholars, please note that the conference is interdisciplinary, and open to contribution from economics, political sciences, sociology, anthropology, and other relevant disciplines and sub-disciplines.

The deadline to submit abstracts is January 30^th, 2022.

For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/3qqhx7S 

About the REInSER project

The main objective of the REInSER project is to improve the economic, and consequently wider, integration of refugees in host societies of the ADRION programme area by using approaches of social economy and in particular social entrepreneurship and by tapping the potential of networking and knowledge transfer of transnational as well as cross-sectional cooperation of key stakeholders.

The long-term objective of the REInSER is on the one hand to enhance possibilities for refugees to become active economic actors and agents of their own integration in a given host society and on the other hand to contribute to the local and regional sustainable economic development by generating employment and supporting the creation of new social responsible businesses.

REInSER brings together 8 project partners from academia, business support organisations and local authorities gathering different expertise, knowledge and skills in 6 countries of the ADRION area (Slovenia, Italy, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia).

REInSER main outputs involve:

1. The creation of an innovative transnational cooperation network that will bring national, regional and local governments, governmental bodies, NGOs, social entrepreneurs, academics and refugees together in a common programme as the first of its kind in the ADRION region.
2. The transnational knowledge exchange through study trips, gathered best practices, shared methodologies and approaches.
3. A business toolbox and pilot actions (including a hackathon) envisaging the development of contrete social entrepreneurial ideas with refugees, supported by an experimental social ecosystem.
4. The preparation of a holistic transnational strategy and an action plan for the successful integration of refugees, supported by an experimental social ecosystem.

The project is supported by the Interreg ADRION Programme funded under the European Regional Development Fund and IPA II fund.

For more information on the REInSER project: www.reinser.adrioninterreg.eu