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Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.25 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Euclid Network (EN)
EU Transparency Register
4361690830-63 First registered on 18 Dec 2008
Goals / Remit
European Network is the network for social entrepreneurs and impact-driven leaders. Our members (+30) bring together their expertise, good practices and lessons learned from over 21 countries in Europe and neighbouring states. Our members are social enterprise federations, universities and training institutes, social investors, frontline NGOs and social enterprises. Together we contribute towards shaping a new type of economy – one that puts at its core sustainable development for both people and the environment.
Significant progress has been made to reduce income inequalities in Europe, but there remain considerable impediments for many marginalised groups. For more than a decade, Euclid Network has been shaping the future of the world’s economy through our work with social enterprises and social entrepreneurs. Our mission is to create a global reality where businesses make decisions not solely based on profits, but instead the social and environmental impact their services have on communities.
We envision a world in which the social and solidarity economy is the worldwide standard, rather than the exception. Everything we do stems from this vision. With our members and partners, the projects, policy advocacy, and partnerships we undertake are focused on developing and growing a diverse and collaborative network of social impact practitioners that contributes to all seventeen of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Together, we collaborate to:
- Create connections between leaders in the impact and social enterprise ecosystem
- Share and produce leadership, professional and entrepreneurial know-how
- Influence European policy and funding and strengthen members’ and network participants’ EU engagement
- Raise the visibility and understanding of social enterprise in business, academia, government, and wider society
- we currently have 24 member organisations from 13 different countries.
Our vision is to see social enterprise and civil society empowered to drive positive change.
Our strategic objectives for the years 2018-2022:
1. Support implementation of European policies in the social enterprise finance market with a focus on the demand side
2. Reinforce the capacity of the network's members to empower social enterprises to access the social finance market and to repay social finance thanks to a sustainable business model
3. Voice the concerns and expectations of social enterprises and potential future social entrepreneurs, including disadvantaged groups
4. Provide high-quality data and research on developments of social enterprise finance with a focus on the demand sideMain EU files targeted
- Employment and Social Inclusion policy (EaSI programme, DG Empl - Euclid Network is a strategic partner of the EC on the demand side of social finance, under the EaSI programme from 2018 to 2021)
- Enlargement and Neighbouring policy and instruments (Balkans, Eastern Neighbourhood and Maghreb), EuropeAid
- Research and Innovation: Horizon 2020 (Social innovation, entrepreneurship/social entrepreneurship)
- Education and Learning: Erasmus +
- Executive Agency for SMEs - COSME Programme: Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (Euclid is an Intermediary organisation)
- Enterprise and Industry: Social Innovation Europe project, social policies
- Regional policy: Cohesion and structural fundsAddress
Head Office
Saturnusstraat 14
The hague 2516 AH
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 75% 1 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Commission expert group on social economy and social enterprises #E03576 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3576 #Member #C#Working group on the role of clusters and similar forms of business cooperation in fostering the development of social economy & social entrepreneurship#Structured Dialogue with European Structural and Investment Funds' partners group of experts#E03226 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3226 #Member #C
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
- Euclid Summit 2018: a conference for policymakers, practitioners and other experts on building and growing ecosystems for social impact
- Innovative Social Investment (InnoSI): The INNOSI research concerns the transition of classical European welfare states from social protection to social investment and examines how this is happening in 20 in-depth case studies. in a consortium with 18 partners from 9 countries, EN guided the impact partners on their strategies and actions for ‘knowledge mobilization’, i.e. making research results relevant to policy-makers and stakeholders.
- Gathering to Grow 2 organised at the European Parliament on 28 March 2016: the conference aimed at supporting efforts to regain momentum in EU policy and funding for social enterprise. The event was hosted by Guillaume Balas, MEP and co-organised with Mouves (France).
- Participation to various EC and EESC conference and workshop on social entrepreneurship development in Europe.
- Participation to various EC and EESC conference and workshop on civil society support.
- Regular publication of members' interviews and articles on project on http://euclidnetwork.eu/our-network/our-news-yours/Other activities
Our principal activities in 2019/2020 so far were spread across 3 main themes: social entrepreneurship, leadership and peer exchange, and social innovation.
The principal activity of the company continues to be developing, connecting and supporting social entrepreneurs and third sector leaders in Europe, to see a vibrant social enterprise finance market across Europe in 2021 in which the demand and supply side are better matched.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
EN is initiating the 4-year EaSI strategy. We see social investment as a significant opportunity to empower civil society organisations and social enterprises to drive positive change – we believe this has a financial dimension and a capacity-building dimension. The strategy is built around 4 objectives: 1. Support the implementation of European policies in the social enterprise finance market with a focus on the demand side
; 2. Reinforce the capacity of the network’s members to empower social enterprises to access the social finance market and to repay social finance thanks to sustainable business models; 3. Voice the concerns and expectations of social entrepreneurs and potential future ones, including disadvantaged groups; 4. Provide high-quality data and research on developments on social enterprises finance with a focus on the demand side
EN and its 8 partners organised 135 exchanges for entrepreneurs in 2017-2018 (40 for social entrepreneurs) under the SEEDplus project (Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs).
LEADERSHIP and PEER EXCHANGES
EN is leading the EU3Leader project (Erasmus+) to develop a European framework of entrepreneurial competences for third sector leaders. Together with 5 partners (academic and practice) and expert leaders from across Europe, we are developing training materials and an online knowledge centre.
EN has so far implemented PeerEx programmes in Kosovo and Poland (building on previous experience in Macedonia and Hungary, both with a focus on women entrepreneurship and social enterprise/CSO leadership.
Meetings
Meetings
3 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 26 Nov 2020 Location videoconference Subject the role of Euclid in the Social Economy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Nicolas Hazard (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Oct 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Pact for Skills: Proximity and social economy roundtable Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Oct 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Pact for Skills Roundtable on proximity and social economy. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)
- Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
- Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
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