Social enterprise

The first pharmacy with social enterprise status in Romania, which is operating in Sangeorgiu de Mures, the Mures County, started being more and more accessed by people who are struggling, due to the involvement of over 20 partners in services' financing.

The British Council in Greece and the Education Ministry's General Secretariat for Lifelong Learning are organizing the first COOPAthon in Greece on February 26-28.

Turkey's first sustainable music festival, Festtogether, will be organized in Istanbul. To organize the festival, a dozen representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and social enterprises came together but none of them had a firsthand experience in the specific field.

After the official opening ceremony of the Forum, Minister Biser Petkov presented awards for an innovative product. In addition to the distinguished Bulgarian social entrepreneurs from the areas of fashion, services and technologies, companies from Romania, Italy and Korea, whose products are represented on the Forum, were granted with awards.

In Plovdiv, Vice President Iliana Yotova opened the eighth edition of the European Forum for Social Entrepreneurship.

With the assistance of the Bulgarian Ministry of Economy, The Bulgarian Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Promotion Agency (BSMEPA) is a co-organizer of the 8th European Forum for Social Entrepreneurship.

3 351 Bulgarians with disabilities work as waiters, brokers or sellers, according to data from the National Statistical Institute (NSI). These are the employees in the 4474 social enterprises in the country, writes Monitor.

A new social enterprise founded in Turkey aims to turn anything into a toy for disadvantaged children.

A new social enterprise founded in Turkey aims to turn anything into a toy for disadvantaged children. Click through for the story in photos...

Cosmetics company Apivita is the first Greek firm to receive the B Corporation certification, becoming a member of an international network of companies and organizations that aspire to combine entrepreneurship with social welfare and use the power of markets to solve social and environmental problems.