"Social challenges in rural and mountain communities" initiative will involve 293 municipalities in 3 different provinces - Torino, Cuneo and Biella.

Instead of meeting in person in the cosy town of Duga Resa in Croatia and seeing the progress made in the local pilot project for social entrepreneurs, they will have their first online meeting of this format - due to covid-19 situation that has affected us all. 

German tandem partners started their search for potential participants for their pilot program until - deadline is May 25, 2020.

Multiplier event presented social enterprises from Hajdu-Bihar county and other parts of Hungary. These were Balmaz Tészta, Strázsa Tanya, Hajdú-Bihar County Enterprise Development Foundation and Badur Foundation.

Italian partners held two additional meetings with local stakeholders.

How to promote Social Entrepreneurship especially in rural regions?

Finpiemonte  and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, met the stakeholders of Cuneo to share the next steps of the Delfin project for the implementation of pilot actions. 

The Italian partners, Finpiemonte and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini,  met  the main association of cooperatives in Turin Province.

The tandem partner of Piedmont met, through online conferences, with four good practices from Germany and Croatia.

Social enterprises realize business ideas that not only generate financial profit but also make a positive contribution to society and the environment. In order to promote them and their business models, financing and consulting services must be further developed.

Finpiemonte and Fondazione Brodolini met the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Biella, LAG (local action group) of Biella  and the social consortium Il filo da tessere.

On the 5th of September the 1st regional stakeholder meeting for Hajdú-Bihar County Government took place in Debrecen. Hajdú-Bihar County Government and IFKA invited stakeholders involved in the support of social entrepreneurship and also social enterpreneurs active in the region.

The 8th of July 2019 the stakeholders meeting for Piedmont Region took place in Torino. 

Fondazione Brodolini and FinPiemonte invited stakeholders involved in the theme of supporting social entrepreneurship in internal area of the region.

Transnational Transfer Workshop Croatia took place in Zagreb on November 26, 2019. The purpose of the workshop was to provide input for the development of tools and instruments for promoting social entrepreneurship.

On the 2nd of December 2019 the Transnational Transfer Workshop of the German tandem partners took place in Merseburg.

On the 2nd of July the 1st regional stakeholder meeting in Saxony-Anhalt took place. 

The DelFin kickoff meeting was held in Magdeburg, Germany, on 14-15 May 2019.