CRAFT Project

Thank you! 🙌 🙌 🙌 Last Thursday, several months of work culminated when we held our first online Policy Summit! We are super happy and satisfied with the result! 🙏 🎤 We would like to thank all speakers and moderators for participating and providing their valuable inputs to the discussions. 👀 It was great to see that people from all over Europe, from Finland to Croatia and even from various African countries attended the interesting and educational panel discussions. Thank you! We hope that the conversation will continue. 🎯 Our work continues with building the European ecosystem of social innovators and impact entrepreneurs and finding the best practices and tools to support them. We will also continue to work with our research and present our overall recommendations to European policy makers. Follow us here on LinkedIn and on our website for more exciting news! www.craftaction.eu The pictures are from behind the scene at the ‘CRAFT control tower’ 👩🏻🚀 and a happy ’Yes! We made it!’ 🥳 moment afterwards with some of the consortium partners! 👏👏👏 Toulouse Métropole, Impact Hub Network, Impact Shakers, WorldStartup, Babele, DISIE, Impact Hub Liepāja, Impact Hub Zagreb, Impact Hub Bucharest Massimo Gaudina , Nicole Miquel-Belaud, Lucia Radu, Tatiana Glad, Cristina Căluianu, Domagoj Boljar, Cristian Ormindean, Octave Kleynjans, Elsa Brander, PhD, Daniel Krüger, Mathilde Pellizzari, Toby Gazeley,Melis Aslan, Emanuele Musa, Diána P., Milena Ninova, Loredana Breazu

The CRAFT Project partners are gathered in Toulouse and getting ready for the Online Policy Summit this afternoon! We have spent the last two days getting familiar with the great people of Toulouse Métropole and visited the very interesting Les Imaginations Fertiles, where we joined an interesting workshop sharing knowledge on social entrepreneurship support across Europe. Thank you for this!🌟 We also had time to explore the beautiful city and had a well deserved drink by the river. See you at 2pm today for the Online Policy Summit! 👌 If you haven’t already, you can still sign up via our website: www.craftaction.eu/event Ruxandra Creosteanu, Gerrit Jan van 't Veen, Mathilde Pellizzari, Diána P., Lucia Radu, Thea Arends Babele WorldStartup Toulouse Métropole Impact Shakers Impact Hub Network DISIE

Exciting News! 🌟 Join us tomorrow at the CRAFT Project Online Summit. Dive into the world of social entrepreneurship and explore its future with leading experts and European policy-makers. Event Highlights: ✨ Inspiring success stories from diverse social entrepreneurs. 🔧 Innovative tools to support budding social entrepreneurs. 🌐 The critical role of public policy in fostering social entrepreneurship. This is a fantastic opportunity to engage with top professionals, researchers, and policy-makers dedicated to creating a more regenerative and equitable society. Don't miss out on these engaging discussions: Success Models in Social Entrepreneurship - What drives their values? Transformative Support Tools - How can we embed positive change? Public Policy's Impact - Its role in economic transition and alternative economies. 🚀 Register now for the CRAFT Online Policy Summit on July 4th, 2024, from 2:00 to 4:30 pm. Visit our website: www.craftaction.eu/events We are grateful to our consortium partners: Impact Hub Network, Impact Shakers, WorldStartup, DISIE, Babele, Toulouse Métropole, Impact Hub Bucharest, Impact Hub Zagreb, and Impact Hub Liepāja. Speakers include: Nicole Miquel-Belaud, Jekaterina Novikova, Toby Gazeley, Octave Kleynjans, Tatiana Glad, Elsa Brander, PhD, Daniel Krüger, Melis Aslan, Domagoj Boljar, Cristina Căluianu, Cristian Ormindean, Mathilde Pellizzari, Lucia Radu, Emanuele Musa, Diána P., Milena Ninova. The CRAFT Project is funded by The European Union, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), and EU Business Support. Let’s shape the future of social entrepreneurship together! #SocialInnovation #SocialStartups #SocialEntrepreneurship #SocialImpact #Opportunities #SocialPolicy #ImpactEntrepreneurship #CRAFTproject #CRAFTAction #SocialEconomy #EISMEA #Impact #SystemChange #RegenerativeEconomy

(ALMOST) FINAL CALL! (you can still make it!) 🤩 Interested in how we can shape the future of social entrepreneurship? Then join us at the CRAFT Project Online Policy Summit on Thursday! We have invited some of the leading experts in social and impact entrepreneurship and policy in Europe to participate in discussions about the global shift towards a more regenerative and just society. Don't miss out on this opportunity to engage with European policy-makers, professionals and researchers to discuss social entrepreneurship support! You can expect 3 dynamic panel discussions:  💡 Explore the diverse models of success in social entrepreneurship and the values driving them. 🛠️ Debate on the transformative power of support tools used by organizations, and how we can integrate positive change into tools for aspiring social entrepreneurs.  🌍 Dive into the role of public policy in advancing social entrepreneurship, whether as part of economic transition or as an alternative economy. 🚀So, if you haven’t already - go and register CRAFT online Policy Summit 4th July 2024, 2:00 - 4:30pm via our website: www.craftaction.eu/events Speakers include: Nicole Miquel-Belaud, Jekaterina Novikova, Toby Gazeley, Octave Kleynjans, Tatiana Glad, Elsa Brander, PhD, Daniel Krüger, Melis Aslan, Domagoj Boljar, Cristina Căluianu, Cristian Ormindean, Mathilde Pellizzari, Lucia Radu, Emanuele Musa, Diána P., Milena Ninova CRAFT Project is funded by The European Union, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and EU Business Support. A collaboration between: Toulouse Métropole, Impact Shakers, Impact Hub Network, WorldStartup, Babele, DISIE, Impact Hub Bucharest, Impact Hub Zagreb, Impact Hub Liepāja #SocialInnovation #SocialStartups #SocialEntrepreneurship #SocialImpact #Opportunities #SocialPolicy #ImpactEntrepreneurship #CRAFTproject #CRAFTAction #SocialEconomy #EISMEA #impact #SystemChange #RegenerativeEconomy

📣 MEET OUR SPEAKERS 📣 Meet our last speaker for the online Policy Summit 4th of July. 🏋️♀️ Cristian Ormindean is  an Advisor at Bucharest-Ilfov Regional Development Agency / Agenția pentru Dezvoltare Regională București-Ilfov, Romania. He has over 20 years of SME advisory experience in areas like small business development, innovation management, including digital innovation, SME internationalisation, sustainability, and social impacts. He has coordinated several Enterprise Europe Network type projects, delivering comprehensive support services to regional SMEs. 🌟 He will join the Policy Summit in a Panel Discussion on ‘Entrepreneurs' Journeys and Archetype of Success” and share his thoughts and great insights from his many years of working with impact entrepreneurs of all kinds. 🚀If you haven’t already - go and register CRAFT online Policy Summit 4 July 2024, 2:00 - 4:30pm via our website: https://lnkd.in/dPZRtX8g Here you can also read about the CRAFT Better Entrepreneurship Policy Group and how you become a part of it and help shape future EU policy! 🇪🇺 CRAFT is funded by The European Union, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and EU Business Support and a great partnership between: Toulouse Métropole, Impact Hub Network, Impact Shakers, WorldStartup, Babele, DISIE, Impact Hub Liepāja, Impact Hub Zagreb, Impact Hub Bucharest Other speakers include: Nicole Miquel-Belaud, Jekaterina Novikova, Toby Gazeley, Octave Kleynjans, Tatiana Glad, Elsa Brander, PhD, Daniel Krüger, Domagoj Boljar, Cristina Căluianu, Mathilde Pellizzari, Lucia Radu, Emanuele Musa, Diána P., Milena Ninova #SocialInnovation #ImpactEntreprenuership #SystemChange #SustainableSociety #RegenerativeSociety #ImpactDriven #SocialEntreprenuership #PolicySummit #CraftAction

⚡ FIRST CO-CREATION WORKSHOP ⚡ We launched the CRAFT Project Lab for improvement of tools for social innovation!  What great energy and participation in our first co-creation session 🏆 Within the Lab, support organizations, entrepreneurs, and innovation actors come together to share ideas, best practices and their love for tools, in order to provide tailored inspiration and tangible guidance to the ecosystems of Romania, Latvia and Croatia. 🔧 The CRAFT Lab is an initiative from the “European Action for Social Entrepreneurship support” project, funded by the European Union. Interested in shaping the future of social entrepreneurship? Join us at the upcoming Policy Summit to hear more about the initiative and how the research and co-creation insights from these communities can lead to policy recommendations. Register for the Policy Summit: https://lnkd.in/dPZRtX8g Follow us at CRAFT if you want to learn more or get involved in the future! CRAFT Project is funded by The European Union, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and EU Business Support in a partnership between: WorldStartup Impact Shakers Toulouse Métropole Impact Hub Network Babele DISIE Impact Hub Liepāja Impact Hub Zagreb and Impact Hub Bucharest #ImpactEntrepreneurship #SocialInnovation #SocialStartups #SocialEntrepreneurship #SocialImpact #SocialPolicy #CRAFTproject #SocialEconomy #EISMEA #impact #SystemChange 

📣 MEET OUR SPEAKERS 📣 We are thrilled to announce the next speaker for the online Policy Summit 4th of July. 💡 Cristina Căluianu is a Board Member and Project Manager at CED Romania Association, NGO, non-profit founded in 2010 and acting in the accessibility and inclusion of persons with disabilities field.  She is also the National Expert for Romania of the European Accessibility Resource Centre #AccessibleEU, one of the flagship initiatives proposed by the European Commission Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030. 🌱 She will join the Policy Summit in a Panel Discussion on ‘Entrepreneurs' Journeys and Archetype of Success” and share insights from her great experience within this field. ⏰If you haven’t already - go and register CRAFT online Policy Summit 4 July 2024, 2:00 - 4:30pm via our website: https://lnkd.in/dPZRtX8g Here you can also read about the CRAFT Better Entrepreneurship Policy Group and how you become a part of it and help shape future EU policy! 🇪🇺 CRAFT is funded by The European Union, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and EU Business Support and a great partnership between: Toulouse Métropole, Impact Hub Network, Impact Shakers, WorldStartup, Babele, DISIE, Impact Hub Liepāja, Impact Hub Zagreb, Impact Hub Bucharest Other speakers include: Nicole Miquel-Belaud, Jekaterina Novikova, Toby Gazeley, Octave Kleynjans, Tatiana Glad, Elsa Brander, PhD, Daniel Krüger, Domagoj Boljar, Cristian Ormindean, Mathilde Pellizzari, Lucia Radu, Emanuele Musa, Diána P., Milena Ninova #SocialInnovation #ImpactEntreprenuership #SystemChange #SustainableSociety #RegenerativeSociety #ImpactDriven #SocialEntreprenuership #PolicySummit #CraftAction

📣 MEET OUR SPEAKERS 📣 ⚡ Lucia Radu is Senior Program Manager at Impact Hub Network with many years of experience in managing European funded programs, training and facilitation, supporting business development, entrepreneurs, circularity and inclusion in an international setting. As part of her role as the project's project manager, Lucia will introduce the CRAFT Project. Nicole Miquel-Belaud and Jekaterina Novikova will also give speeches followed by 3 interesting and reflective Panel Discussions with following speakers: Domagoj Boljar, Tatiana Glad, Cristian Ormindean, Octave Kleynjans, Elsa Brander, PhD, Daniel Krüger, Melis Aslan, Mathilde Pellizzari, and Toby Gazeley. They will be moderated by: Emanuele Musa, Diána P. and Milena Ninova ✍️ Sign up for the CRAFT online Policy Summit 4 July 2024, 2:00 - 4:30pm by visiting our website: https://lnkd.in/dPZRtX8g CRAFT Project is funded by The European Union European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and EU Business Support. A collaboration between: Toulouse Métropole, Impact Shakers, Impact Hub Network, WorldStartup, Babele, DISIE, Impact Hub Bucharest, Impact Hub Zagreb, Impact Hub Liepāja

⚙️ MEET OUR MODERATORS ⚙️ Say hello to our excellent moderators who will manage our 3 exciting Panel Discussions! 🚀 Emanuele Musa is the co-founder of Babele, a leading platform for online acceleration of social impact initiatives. He is an expert in open and social innovation and passionate about using transparency and collective intelligence for sustainable innovation. Emanuele will welcome you all to the CRAFT Online Policy Summit and act as moderator for the Panel Discussion: “Entrepreneurs' Journeys and Archetype of Success”. 💎 Diána P. Pati is the Co-founder and Operations Manager at Impact Shakers dedicated to tackling societal and environmental challenges through inclusive entrepreneurship. She oversees the operations of the Impact Shakers Accelerator and has worked in entrepreneurship support across Europe. Diana will act as moderator for the Panel Discussion: “Support tools for the Green, Social and Digital transitions”. 🛠 Milena Ninova is a service designer and a programme manager at WorldStartup with a background in Industrial design engineering. She is experienced with design thinking methodologies, product & service development, user experience & research, and event & co-creation facilitation. She has a passion for tools and for supporting impactful social entrepreneurs. Milena will act as moderator for the Panel Discussion: “The Role of Social Entrepreneurship Policy in Promoting New Archetypes of Success” The 3 panel discussions include following speakers: Domagoj Boljar, Tatiana Glad, Cristian Ormindean, Octave Kleynjans, Elsa Brander, PhD, Daniel Krüger, Melis Aslan, Mathilde Pellizzari, Toby Gazeley. In addition, there will also be speeches from Lucia Radu, Nicole Miquel-Belaud and Jekaterina Novikova. 👆 Don’t miss out! 📌 Sign up for the CRAFT online Policy Summit 4 July 2024, 2:00 - 4:30pm by visiting our website: https://lnkd.in/dPZRtX8g 🔔 You can become a part of the CRAFT Better Entrepreneurship Policy Group and help shape future EU policy! Read more and sign up while registering to the Summit! 🇪🇺 CRAFT is funded by The European Union, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) EU Business Support . Partners are: Toulouse Métropole, Babele, Impact Shakers, WorldStartup, Impact Hub Network, DISIE, Impact Hub Bucharest, Impact Hub Zagreb, Impact Hub Liepāja #SocialInnovation #ImpactEntrepreneurship #SystemChange #changeMakers #SocialImpact

📣 MEET OUR SPEAKERS 📣 💡Jekaterina Novikova will give a speech dealing with the EU Commission's social innovation policy and social innovation support programs in Europe. 🏆 Jekaterina is Deputy Head of Innovation Policy and Access to Finance Unit at the European Commission in the Directorate General for Research and Innovation. Her ambition is to build robust, inclusive and interconnected ecosystems in Europe. Her main policy focus is the New European Innovation Agenda and European Innovation Ecosystems, including the Regional Innovation Valleys initiative. We are thrilled to have her with us at the CRAFT Online Policy Summit 4th of July 2024, 2:00 - 4:30pm ✏️ Sign up by visiting our website: https://lnkd.in/dPZRtX8g There will be 3 panel discussions with following speakers: Nicole Miquel-Belaud, Toby Gazeley, Octave Kleynjans, Tatiana Glad, Elsa Brander, PhD, Melis Aslan, Daniel Krüger, Cristian Ormindean, Domagoj Boljar, Mathilde Pellizzari, Lucia Radu, Emanuele Musa, Diána P., Milena Ninova CRAFT Project is a collaboration between: Toulouse Métropole, Impact Shakers, Impact Hub Network, WorldStartup, Babele, DISIE, Impact Hub Bucharest, Impact Hub Zagreb, Impact Hub Liepāja 🇪🇺 CRAFT is funded by The European Union, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) EU Business Support #SocialInnovationEurope #SocialInnovation #PolicySummit #ImpactEntrepreneurship #EntrepreneurshipSupport #SystemChange #ChangeMakers #SocialImpact