On 16-17 June 2020 the i2 SustainIT project kicked off with a meeting virtually hosted from London, UK. All partners – the project coordinator EPN Consulting and the project partners KISMC, CEED Bulgaria, IDEC, Worldview Impact Foundation and Creative District – launched Impact Incubator for Nurturing Sustainability - i2 SustainIT [Project No. 2019-1-UK01-KA204-061873]. The project has been successful in the Erasmus+ call in 2019 and consequently co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union for its 2-years' implementation. Erasmus+ is the European Union’s (EU) programme for education, training, youth and sport, with the EU committing £12 billion to the programme between 2014 and 2020. During the virtual kick off meeting all partners discussed their previous experience in the topics of impact investment and sustainability and agreed on an agenda that would focus on producing quality intellectual outputs that would assist all stakeholders in the impact investment and social entrepreneurship ecosystem. What is i2 SustainIT?The Impact Incubator for Nurturing Sustainability [i2 SustainIT] project inspires more connectivity in the social and environmental ecosystem through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The project's duration is 2 years, to be completed in the end of September 2021 with an Impact Investment & Sustainability Conference. Although the project has a set end date for its implementation under the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, we are firmly willing to continue contributing to this topic by using i2 SustainIT as an already established network and community to create social value and assist finding solutions to the world’s problem our society faces. The i2 SustainIT is a continuation of another project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme. The project is BASET – Boost Aid for Social Entrepreneurship through Training with the overall objective to foster social entrepreneurship in Europe through elaborating, testing and providing a set of learning and training instruments to a large group of social entrepreneurship trainers/educators. The rationale behind continuing BASET is the realisation that such a project focused on social entrepreneurship aiming to provide a higher-scale of impact, will need a more sustainable approach and additional set of instruments to assist educators and investors; in the i2 SustainIT project – mentors and investors. i2 SustainIT focuses on the fact that all target groups need to better communicate with each other and express their needs accordingly, and also that impact investment and sustainability are under-explored topics with significant added value to tackling social and environmental challenges. In the next section you can read more information about the project's objectives, methodology, results, impact and learn more about the partners involved in this exciting project which will contribute to the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Europe and beyond. |
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