The RESONATE project ended with a fruitful cooperation among three partners of Social Business Hub Styria from Austria, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini s.r.l. SB from Italy and Facto Cooperativa from Spain. The project results now also available on the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform and RESONATE was labelled as a “Good practice”. This is intended to highlight projects with impact and which has policy relevance. These projects are considered well managed and can be inspirational source for others.
You can learn more about successful social entrepreneurs working in or around Graz, Milan and Barcelona in the case studies. These entrepreneurs helped the network to better understand how social entrepreneurship can be developed in different contexts and how they reach high impact with their business. Especially, the thoughts nurtured the business support organisations to further develop their training and service portfolio. The partners also shared their experience in relation to defining social entrepreneurship, impact assessment, stakeholder engagements and training development, which were summarized in three working papers. These results are also available at our website
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There are different ways in which a social business can combine impact with an economic business model. In an integrated approach impact is directly generated through commercial activities. Target groups are part of the model either as employees of the company, as users of services or as customers. When customers and beneficiaries differ the situation is more complex and a differentiated impact business model applies. “Sustainable” businesses generate impact by using environmentally sustainable processes, products or services.
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