In 2016, six partner organisations (VSBI, Social Enterprise International, ECOSynergy, Elephant, SLAP and KophHandUndFuss) bid successfully for an EU grant to set up FairShares Labs that apply the FairShares Model to social enterprise development. Each lab developed a process for incubating ideas (using a FairShares Planner) and managing projects and education offers (using a FairShares Platform). In 2017, ECOSynergy was replaced by Zöld-Aktív Social Cooperative. The project completed successfully in October 2019 with an evaluation score of 86/100 (‘Very Good’).
The results were discussed at a conference at the University of Pec (Hungary) in June 2019. Roger Schmidtchen, the project co-ordinator, reported that 30 FairShares trainers and 100 participants had received training in 15 Labs across five countries. The final reports were published in October 2019, and a book describing the project methodology was published in February 2020.
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Project Introduction
Idea workshops, incubation workshops and planning workshops are combined with coaching support to help groups prepare a FairShares Canvass that outlines their FairShares Plan.
The FairShares platform and planner can be accessed at:
https://fairsharesplatform.eu/
For background, download the original brochures on FairShares Labs in:
Download our ‘Country Context’ reports (from IO1) to learn about the environment for supporting FairShares
- Country Context Reports, IO1 – Annex 1 (are in the book as well)
Download our series of case studies (from IO1) which have been evaluated against the FairShares Model
- Relevant Practice Cases, IO1 – Annex 6 (are in the book as well)