MERSE

Business Models Empowering Rural Social Entrepreneurship – voicing the rural norm

What we do

The project will transfer and develop better adapted business models, support structures and conditions for rural social enterprises. It will enhance transnational knowledge and learning of social enterprises, create networks to better connect social entrepreneurs with support. This goal is to achieve for better opportunities for people who want to develop sustainable entrepreneurship and community services to promote a development where it is possible to live and work in the whole of NPA area.
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MERSE Kick-off in Östersund

On October 16–17, around twenty project participants and partners from the MERSE project representing five different countries gathered at Mid Sweden University in Östersund, Sweden for a kick-off. In the project, they will study differences and similarities in social entrepreneurship in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Ireland.

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Voicing the rural norm

Where public efforts and private companies do not reach, local communities often place their hopes in initiatives from local social entrepreneurs.

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Project priority


Innovation

Project period


Start

01.07.2023

End

30.06.2026

Lead Partner


Mid Sweden University


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Project info


Objective

1.3 Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments


Total Budget

1.703.053,34 EUR


NPA Co-Financing

1.068.262,16 EUR

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22.10.2023

MERSE Kick-off in Östersund

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