Social Entrepreneurship is Entrepreneurship

Pieter van Schie — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:52:02 +0000

Definition Social Entrepreneurship

There are several definitions of Social Entrepreneurship. In the SesyCare application we defined it as: ‘A social entrepreneur is a person who pursues novel applications that have the potential to solve community-based problems. These individuals are willing to take on the risk and effort to create positive changes in society through their initiatives.’

Wikipedia Definition Social Entrepreneurship

On Wikipedia they define Social entrepreneurship as ‘an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues.’ Wikipedia is a volunteer-run project, a very interesting and succesfull entrepreneurial source format of ‘what you would like to know about certain topics, persons, institutions, organisations and companies. Why people always go to Wikipedia to know more about a certain topic or to get a definition is not clear for me. Wikipedia is not a reliable source and overrated (it does not have a scientific trademark). Wikipedia can be edited by anyone at any time. This means that any information it contains at any particular time could be vandalism, a work in progress, or just plain wrong…

Social Entrepreneurship is Entrepreneurship

We should not overcomplicate things. My definition on the topic social entrepreneurship is pretty clear:

‘‘Social Entrepreneurship is Entrepreneurship (with a Social Product and / or Service)’. It does not matter if your poduct or your service is to improve social issues through your businesses. You can only successfully tackle social issues while generating profit… You can only make a loss with your social enterprise for a short period, in the end you will go down without a profitable business model, unless your shareholders/ owners are (local) government(s). Keep in mind that due to an unhealthy ideology and neverending funding by local governments the chances on staying a social enterprise making (big) loss are more or less forever.

This article is part of a presentation given by Pieter van Schie MA on Zoom d.d. December 18th 2020 for the project Sesycare

Social Entrepreneurship Skills to Young CAREgivers of people with chronic Illness

Pieter van Schie — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:26:27 +0000

The European Partnership ‘Social Entrepreneurship Skills to Young CAREgivers of people with chronic Illness, also known as SESYCARE is delighted to kick-off the project December 18th. The meeting will be follwed by a Webinar on Social Entrepreneurship and Young Carers.

The SesyCare partnership has partnerorganisations from Greece, Turkey, The Netherlands and Italy.

SesyCare Project Outline

Young carers are children or young people who look after family members who are ill or have disabilities. They take over similar caregiving responsibilities to those of adult family carers and need special support.

The purpose of this project is to summarize the body of knowledge about young carers’ lives with a special focus on their personal experiences, the impact of caring, needs and coping behaviors and offer specific social entrepreneurship education and offer social entrepreneurship activities among such a vulnerable group.

Young carers are often hidden, forgotten or ignored by policymakers and service providers at national and local levels. They do not feature in the literature on community care, family care, and children’s rights; and young carers’ experiences and needs are not explicitly recognized in social and family policies. The long-term implications of caregiving responsibilities on young carers’ health or psycho-social development need to be further documented.

Zoom Meeting
To kick off SesyCare officially we use Zoom. The Zoom meeting wil start with an Introductive Session:
– What is Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme ?
– Who is a Young carer?
– What is Entrepreneurship – Social Entrepreneurship?

Each partner wil present and describe their organisations and project tasks.

Associated Partners Project SESYCARE

Sesycare Webinar

After the Zoom kick off, a webinar about social netrepreneurship will take place

For more information, click SesyCare project website

Entrepreneurship – Dutch Foundation of Innovation Welfare 2 Work

Social Entrepreneurship is Entrepreneurship

Social Entrepreneurship Skills to Young CAREgivers of people with chronic Illness