How to engage disabled people in PB Info sheet A four-page, user-friendly guide that provides recommendations to engage disabled people in your PB process. At its best, participatory budgeting (PB) is a transformative way to more equally distribute power and resources. PB enables community members to decide how to allocate public funds, and to ensure […]
What challenges of today’s world is the social entrepreneurship education facing? Should its’ content be reshaped and if so – how it should be done to make it effective? As one of our main objectives at the social-impact-oriented Erasmus+ project – IndigiSE is to promote the concept of social entrepreneurship among youth and shape youth entrepreneurial mindset. Thus […]
The InDigiSE project, co-funded by Erasmus+ programme, aims at delivery of youth-oriented, innovative educational tools to develop the entrepreneurial competence in the field of social economy and engage youth within social entrepreneurship. Its duration will be 24 months starting from April 1st 2020 and closing on 31th March 2022, and the total amount received from Erasmus+ fund is […]
What would your dream home municipality be like? The inhabitants of Lahti get to develop their municipality through PB in 2020. Finnish municipalities have been quite active in taking up participatory budgeting “PB” where inhabitants get a chance to take part in dividing finances in their home municipality. A third of Finnish municipalities have or […]
We invite all the stakeholders interested and working with the energy issues to join us on 25th October in Gdańsk. Umbrella project, together with the EUSBSR PA ENERGY Coordinator and the Economic Development Department of the Pomorskie Marshall Office, will host a full-day expert conference where we will discuss the issues connected to the: renewable energy; environmental management; […]
Almost 100 participants from Baltic Sea Region NGOs, academia, municipalities and various transnational projects joined us on 11th June 2019 in Gdansk to take part in 3rd Participation Day. This years event was organized jointly by the EUSBSR HA Capacity coordinators, Umbrella project and Union of the Baltic Cities. We invited the stakeholders to come […]
On Europe Day, 9th May, UMBRELLA project held its second Awareness Raising Event. What better occasion to talk about EU opportunities for municipalities and educational institutions? These were the main focus groups of the conference that took place in Sorø, a small municipality located in the core of Region Zealand and perfect location to gather […]
Are you a young girl/ boy between 18-25 years old? Would you like to know more about your right to access public information? Then our Youth Workshop is the right occasion for you to gain practical knowledge in this field, besides socially responsible relationships and participatory budgeting. The workshop will be organized by the Association […]
Since 2016 BISER is a part of the SE NETWORK – Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region. Our network is the first interactive and integrated learning and action platform in the Nordic-Baltic area for a world where information flows, knowledge and the development of social innovation take place in a co-creative and positive spirit. […]
On 23rd and 24th of May, the seaport city of Lithuania will be the host of this exciting event, aimed at “Unlocking the potential of blue and green regional development”. The event will take place at the Culture factory, Bangų str. 5A. (Practical details to be sent). What to expect? Inspirational speeches, best practices, remarkable project outcomes, ideas for […]
