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The 4th International Social Entrepreneurship Workshop was held in Bursa İnegöl and Tunceli

The fourth in the workshop series Social Business Global began in 2019 was held on 28-30 December 2023 in Bursa İnegöl and at Munzur University in Tunceli, with participants from 20 countries.

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International Social Entrepreneurship Workshop, İzmir

Social Business Global's 4th International Social Entrepreneurship Workshop was held on 28-30 December 2023 in Bursa İnegöl with participants from 20 countries. A separate session with participants from Ghana, Bangladesh and Syria took place at Munzur University in Tunceli.

At the workshops, participants from different countries explain how similar problems are solved in different cultures through example social enterprises, and the cases are reviewed and reported. 564 social enterprise cases were reviewed across the four workshops.

The series began in July 2019 in Istanbul, when participants from 20 countries were invited and 936 applications were received; it continued online on 19 December 2020 in partnership with Mersin University, and in İzmir on 17-19 December 2021 in partnership with İzmir Metropolitan Municipality (189 applications from 22 countries, 65 participants).

Talks on dates for the 5th International Social Entrepreneurship Workshop in Ankara are ongoing.

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About Social Business Global

Social Business Global (official name: International Social Benefit Association) is a civil society organisation that promotes social entrepreneurship and social innovation from Turkiye to the world. Social Business Global works together with hangel; its events, volunteering and public-sector cooperation run on the hangel platform.

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Some of Social Business Global's work

  • International Social Entrepreneurship Workshops since 2019, each with participants from about 20 countries (the first in Istanbul, July 2019).
  • A 29-article draft Social Entrepreneurship Law.
  • 258 awareness conferences across Turkiye.
  • The Social Enterprise Dataset, built from a detailed review of 634 social enterprises.
  • Turkiye's first master's programme in social entrepreneurship, in cooperation with Mersin University; an "Applied Social Entrepreneurship" course open to all departments at Maltepe University.
  • A youth and volunteering network cooperating with 42 universities.
  • Co-implementation of the Ministry of Interior of Turkiye project conferences on revenue models and sustainability for NGOs.

Figures from the association's pages and its 2020–2025 Impact and Transparency Report.

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