Daniel Schaubacher, EBBF's representative to EU Institutions proposed to MEP Richard Howitt an event that could bring the state of the art in European Social Entrepreneurship to the European Union in Brussels. MEP Howitt accepted enthusiastically and added this keen interest to some of his other focuses such as the development of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Role of Business in the Promotion of Human Rights.
The result was a conference co-organized between EBBF and The Club of Rome bringing to the European Parliament some of the key players in the area of Social Entrepreneurship in a workshop / presentation that attracted a completely full hall of individuals interested in the topic. In fact the interest was so high that the conference registrations had to be closed days before the event due to lack of available space.
The afternoon event chaired by Daniel Schaubacher had MEP Richard Howitt opening the session followed by an introduction to social entrepreneurship by EBBF's Secretary General and himself a social entrepreneur Daniel Truran, mentioning the case of The Hub then a deepening of the role of social entrepreneurship was offered by Parag Gupta of the Schwab Foundation, followed by the practical case of just one of the many Ashoka Fellows introduced by Arnaud Mourot. René Schmidpeter of the Bertelsmann Foundation then broadened the scope making the link to some areas of involvement for social entrepreneurs with Angela Lawaldt, another EBBF member putting her values into practice, offering the interesting perspective of the new breed of Social Venture Investors. Dr. Christian Weinberger of DG Enterprise closed the session offering an overview of the EU's work in this field.
Click on the links below to download the presentations offered by EBBF, Ashoka, The Schwab Foundation, The Bertelsmann Stiftung and Bonventure.
Schwab's PresentationAshoka's Presentation
