Project: Social enterprise eco-system support
Partner: Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship (University of Cape Town)
Duration: 01.01.2015 – 31.12.2017
Budget: €1.000.000
This project was submitted by Cape Town University on behalf of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (hereafter abbreviated as Bertha Centre). It seeks to improve the climate for social enterprises so as to allow them to achieve better results and create decent jobs.
The Bertha Centre wants to realise this by supporting an eco-system which is based on 4 key goals:
1. To improve understanding of the dynamics of the social economy.
2. To promote a favourable policy framework and environment.
3. To enhance the skills of social entrepreneurs.
4. To increase the scale of social enterprises: increased access to capital and the provision of support services.
The beneficiaries of the project include students, especially those with limited financial resources, as well as individuals, entrepreneurs and organisations wishing to start up an enterprise in low-income communities and, finally, social enterprises wishing to grow and increase their impact.