Aleea Valea Viilor Street no. 2, district 6
Bucharest
Roumanie
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Research
- Youth and education
ACE-ES Romania aims to support and promote social economy (social entrepreneurship) seen as viable tool for innovation and flexibility within the economic and social environment, for sustainable development and active citizenship, for cooperation, solidarity and social inclusion.
The main projects of ACE-ES Romania are:
1. Free Support Program for Sustainable NGOs – so far we are providing free consulting services for 8 NGOs, located in Bucharest, Arges, Ilfov county, Constanta and Neamt. Areas covered: structural funds (writing grant applications), social economy, organizational development, fund raising and development programs for vulnerable groups.
2. "Social Economy, which way?" – ACE-ES Romania has launched an online Working Group in order to bring together specialists and organizations interested in developing the field of social economy in Romania. Main topics are the following: Certification Models of social economy structures; Social impact assessment; Non-traditional businesses as a tool for employability; Human Resources/Training; Support structures in social economy.
3. ”YES for Entrepreneurial Youth NGOs, YES for Millennials Changers” – ERASMUS + Strategic Partnerships for Youth - The general aim is to stimulate transnational exchange of good practices and relevant experiences in developing modern and challenging action-based learning contexts for professional people of the youth NGOs (with a focus on youth workers) based on social enterpreneurship so that they could stimulate sustainable development of their organisations and their target groups.
This project is implemented with bbw gGmbH from Germany and CESUR - CENTRO SUPERIOR DE FORMACION EUROPA SUR from Spain (September 2015-November 2016).
4. FUN Studio – is a complex project for children, youth and adults/parents in order to develop practical transversal skills for a positive life based on self-esteem, laughing/personal development and positive thinking.
5. ”START Social Entrepreneurship for Women!” - To increase awareness about social entrepreneurship as a tool of economic empowerment and to support educated young women with a precarious status on market labour to become financially independent. It has 2 components: A. a complex support program for women (psychological and vocational counseling; training in social entrepreneurship) B. free consultancy for starting their own social business. (June 2016-may 2017). The project is supported by VGIF Foundation.
ACE-ES Romania could contribute to the Network by exchanges of experience, collaborations, developing partnerships and promoting sustainability of non-governamental organizations through social business.
ALF network is a very large network having different sort of members from many countries and it could be an important resource for international collaboration, transnational projects and organizational development.