Meso
B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY
B1 - How has the GP impacted on the following?
B1a - Legal/financial exclusion
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
Using an integration model, based on decentralized management of the product through a general coordination, the result was a factor of economic and productivity growth, not only in large urban centers, but also in towns of the Greek region.
B1b - Creation or conservation of local employment
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The recurring cycle of the product, stabilized a number of parallel activities, in a wide range of occupations and fields of entrepreneurship (indicatively, the constant production cycle - involving local shops, restaurants, entertainment events organisers - doubles the labor rates for the industry) the numbers refer only to the Attica Region, a greater amount refers to the national level .
B1c - Adaptation to new realities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
In less than a year the people and organizations involved in the project, understood and highlighted the new reality and have developed strategies to deal with new data in professional and social reality, in related forums
B1d - Cross sectoral working
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
More than 550 companies from different areas of entrepreneurship, managed to collaborate only in the past year.
B1e - Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The decentralized management model inspired innovation of social entrepreneurship in 29 greek cities.
B1f - Amenities for local people
Positive impacts
Any other comments?
The EMD 2012 project, established an innovative quadruple helix approach collaboration model, in order to support strategic plans on social cohesion and amenities for the social exluded population in Greece.
B1g - Educational opportunities
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The 2012 project provided lifelong learning workshop, seminars and open day opportunities to students of different levels, both from the private and public education sector. Therefore the project was presented in more than 20 educational and training providers either as a know - how tool for enterpreneurship, or as a GP senario for students to work with or into.
B1h - Crisis response
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
Although the political and economical crisis, highly peaked for Greece within 2012, the standard established, helped us realise that all obstacles can be overcome with good ideas, innovative management and common coordination, which allowed us to produce wide economies of scale and synergies for the project development.
B1i - Local financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The local and regional institutional and private partnerships for 2013 edition are perpetually renewed. For this up-coming year, we can be sure that the program will integrate more participants than ever before and will be used as a vechicle on social economy GP models to be established and accepted by the local population.
B1j - Local policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
In 13 years of existence, EMD became a tool for the local and regional authorities to implement strategies on social enterpreneurs to grow.
B1k - National financial environment for social enterpreneurs
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The national environment in terms of financing is on the turning point of implementing new legislation for social enterpreneurship economic growth .
B1l - National policy environment for social enterpreneurs
Very positive impacts
Any other comments?
The national reference framework 2007-13 has created the tools for an environment of social entrepreneurship to grow and produce meaningfull results. Following Horizon 2020 Strategy, social and creative enterpreneurships should become one of the reinventing thesis of Greece economic model.