Webinar: How to make it easier to start and develop social enterprises in rural areas

Register for the webinar here.

🕐  9 June 2026, at 10:00–12:00 CET

Organiser
Mid Sweden University

Language
English

How to participate
Register via the link above when registration has opened and you will then recieve a Zoom link 1-2 days before the webinar.

Who is this webinar for
Social enterprises
Support organisations
Municipalities, regional organisations
Interest organisations, NGOs
General public

About the webinar
We warmly welcome you to the MERSE projects final webinar! Lessons learned from the MERSE Project. Lessons on how to make it easier for social entrepreneurship in rural areas through cross-border collaborations in the five NPA regions participating in the project.

• In the webinar, we will show results from three-year cooperation between five regions in Iceland, Ireland, Finland, Norway and Sweden on how to make it easier to start and develop social enterprises in rural Europe.

• We demonstrate models, methods and tools that can be used by both social enterprises and local entrepreneurship support functions to facilitate the start-up and development of social enterprises in rural areas.
  

• We demonstrate examples of business models for social enterprises.

• We present best practices examples of how municipality-community cooperation can be designed for mutual social value creation.

• We provide policy recommendations to encourage municipalities to include social enterprises in their strategies and action plans to legitimize the important role that social entrepreneurs play in enabling the living conditions in rural communities.

Come and be inspired by social entrepreneurs, business support organizations, decision-makers and researchers who will all share knowledge and experiences from cross-border on how to make it easier to start and run rural social enterprises.

Warm welcome!