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Funding opportunities for Social Economy

Funding opportunities: European Development Fund

• Under the EU-OCT Association: Programming of the 11th EDF

program for Curaçao:

• Territorial funding for Curaçao: EUR 16,95 million – sector:

resilient and sustainable communities;

• Regional

funding for the Caribbean: EUR 40 million

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Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity;

• B-envelope

(for unforeseen events: natural disasters, humanitarian crises..): EUR 21.5 million;

• All OCTs thematic programmes on sustainable energy and

climate change: EUR 17.8 million;

• EUR 5 million to finance interest subsidies and technical

assistance through the OCT Investment Facility of the EIB;

• Under the OAD, OCTs are eligible to the EIB own resources

(EUR 100 million) and the OCT Investment Facility (EUR 48,5 million). 2

Funding opportunities: regular EU programmes

How it works?

• The 2001 Overseas Association Decision (OAD), established a positive list of

the programs for which the OCTs were eligible, meaning that if an EU programme was not explicitly mentioned in the Decision, OCTs were not eligible for it;

• In the new 2013 OAD the approach changed:

if a certain programme did not explicitly exclude the OCTs from participating, and this participation is not in contradiction with the objectives of the programme, the OCTs are eligible ‘by default’;

• A revision is under negotiation in preparation of the new Multiannual Financial

framework (2021 – 2027) of the European Union. 3

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs

https://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu

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EU-funded exchange programme for entrepreneurs from the EU members states and 11 additional countries; Opportunity to exchange knowledge, business ideas, contacts and experiences. 1-6 months exchanges for new entrepreneur with experienced entrepreneur abroad;

Curaçao participation (Statistics Nov 2018): 1 new entrepreneur attended a 2-month stay in Germany; 1 entrepreneur from Curaçao was hosting for a 4-month stay a new UK-based entrepreneur.

Objectives:

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#EUSOLIDARITYCORPS

Who? Young people (18-30) and organisations *Curaçao has a “participating country” status within ESCs What? Volunteer, train or work Why? Respond to societal challenges Provide young people opportunities to learn and develop themselves How much? More than 100.000 opportunities 375,6 MioEUR for 2018-2020

IN SHORT THE EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS IS…

QUALITY and SUPPORT MEASURES

The Corps provides a range of quality and support services for participants and

• rganisations:

❑ General online training ❑ Linguistic support ❑ Training and evaluation cycle ❑ Mentoring ❑ Recognition of learning outcomes ❑ Insurance ❑ Certificate of participation ❑ European Solidarity Corps portal More information: www.europa.eu/solidarity-corps

Finance is not enough we need a… social economy ecosystem

What do we need?

• Associations and networks;
• Work on capacity building;
• Start-up and scale-up support;
• Leverage social innovation;
• Thematic objectives: circular economy/clean energy/sustainable tourism etc;
• Physical spaces such as (creative) commons, co-workings spaces etc.

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Some inspiration from the world of clusters…

Also social economy can be organised in clusters

➔ opportunity for Inclusive cooperation

Working in a cluster creates a wider range of abilities:

• Main drivers for Social innovation;
• Frontrunners digital tech for social good;
• Source of skilled and motivated staff;
• Masters in workforce developement & modern process management.

It will gain…

• Access to new markets (e.g. value based economy);
• Social and environmental impact (e.g. local water management);
• Partners in transformation of industrial and management practices

(e.g. energy transition);

• A response to the missing link between a competitive cluster & civil society.

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Thank you!

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