VISES Valorise the Social Impact of Social Entrepreneurship Valorise the social impact of social entrepreneurship

Demonstrating their social impact, both internally and externally, is one of the challenges facing social enterprises.

Project description

The VISES project is a four-year project that brings together 21 partners to highlight the impact of social and solidarity-based enterprises on the well-being of their target group, their environment, and society.

To this end, they are designing, testing, and disseminating a methodology to increase the social impact of social entrepreneurship. The process consists of the following three phases:


Phase 1: Design

Researchers, representatives of federations of the social and solidarity economy, and social enterprises are working together to develop an approach for identifying, analyzing, measuring, and valuing social impact.


Phase 2: Testing

This approach will then be tested within the broader network of social enterprises over a two-year period. During this support phase, the partners and pilot projects will consult regularly to refine the approach.


Phase 3: Spread

After this experiment, the partners will offer training and short coaching sessions to other companies to spread the approach.

 



The VISES project aims to establish a cross-border applied research effort to support social enterprises in identifying their social impact.

Output

  • Publication 'Mapping the meaningfulness of our economy'
  • Publication 'Memorandum on the valorization of social impact'
  • Publication 'Identity cards of the test companies'
  • Publication 'Plea for a collective evaluation of the social impact of social entrepreneurship'
  • First thematic booklet of the VISES project: Towards new challenges
  • Second thematic paper of the VISES project: The need for co-construction
  • Third thematic notebook: This is not a manual
  • Fourth thematic notebook: Action research project
  • Video about the social impact
  • Six video clips as testimonials about the VISES experiment/process

Financing type & term

INTERREG France – Wallonia - Flanders


Duration 2016-2020

Info & Communication

http://www.projetvisesproject.eu 

Contact details

Ilse.vandenberckt@ucll.be 

Partners