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Engaged entrepreneurshi
pthe partnership between social
engagement and enterpreneurship
Maurice Hermans
I grew up in Social Work
> BA in Community Work> MA Comparative European Social Work> Practitioner in different SW organisations
> Researcher CESRT ZUYD University> Director Betawerk
(How) can social engagement and entrepreneurship
form a partnership?
...and is the traditional social work institutions still the best position to foster social change?
PM: “I want to end the idea of the state as a happiness machine”
Social Work practice
> inward looking> re-active, not pro-active> little climate for innovative
approaches
EU: social entrepreneurship
> positive return to society> principles of transparancy &
accountability> emotional connection to business
goals> link to engagement of founders
Growth is shrinkingshrinkage is growing
Shrinkage
< hardware< software< mentalware
City of Heerlen
< 90.000< former mining city< shrinking city #1 in Netherlands
< voted “worst liveable city NL” (6x)
“Heerlen is on the losing end of globalisation ”
Betawerk creates inspired ideas and interactive media
for change
Change?
> for organisations> issues of regional transition
> developing communities
> inspire re-thinking> facilitate public debate
→ interactive media is our main tool
Our population1 healthcare professional
3 software developers2 designers
4 editors2 office/project managers
1 cultural scientist1 history teacher1 sales manager
1 biologist (73 years old)1 social work professional
(by the way, we're a family business)
Two
examples
How> public – private partnerships> from heavy institutions to light
networks> engage your creative community> support bottom-up initiatives> invest in knowledge transfer> think cross-disciplinary (step out of organizational
bounderies)> use today's tools
So yessocial engagement
and entrepreneurship can go hand in hand
You can find me on
> de.linkedin.com/in/mauricehermans/
> www.ibeta.eu/blog
> www.slideshare.net/MauriceHermans1