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All four partners in this Transnational Cooperation Agreement (TCA) – which includes the development partnerships (DPs) of Agora (UK), YOUR SPIS (Slovakia), Europa House (Czech Republic) and Werk.Waardig (Belgium) – share a common conceptual area-based approach to the improvement of the quality of life of stakeholders and communities either directly through existing social economy-based mechanisms and structures or through social entrepreneurship elements of good practice present in the public and private sectors.

 

The aim of this TCA is to make a valuable contribution to disadvantaged groups in communities through social enterprise (or the third sector).The objectives include:

 ·         Developing community planning as a tool that can improve the quality of life of disadvantaged people/groups/areas.·         Empowering/educating/upskilling people to improve the quality of service they provide to their stakeholders and communities.·         Professionalising social enterprises to improve the quality of the sector.

 

The partnership has been working on the following outputs:

 

• Development of a methodology for creating an evaluation system for community planning and process description, including web-based community planning methods.
• Creation of study visits, exchanges and/or conferences for project beneficiaries.
• Marketing and promotion of social enterprises and socially responsible businesses through an online web-based marketing mechanism, including the creation of key performance indicators and/or socio-economic evaluation tools for organisations that function using elements of good practice f