Register for the webinar: How to make it easier to start and develop social enterprises in rural areas
Further below on this page, you are able to register for the webinar "How to make it easier to start and develop social enterprises in rural areas" including key lessons from The MERSE Project. The webinar is held in English in Zoom the 9th of June 2026 at 10.00-12:00 CET.
Please note that you need to register for the MERSE webinar "How to make it easier to start and develop social enterprises in rural areas". Your register for the webinar by filling in and sending the form below. Last day to register for the webinar is June 7.
Date: 9th of June 2026
Time: 10.00-12.00 (CET)
Last day to register for the webinar is June 7. Please note that the webinar is held in English.
Organiser
The MERSE Project through Mid Sweden University.
How to participate
Register via the link below and you will then recieve a Zoom link to your email before the webinar.
Who is this webinar for
Social enterprises
Support organisations
Municipalities, regional organisations
Interest organisations, NGOs
General public
About the webinar
We warmly welcome you to the final webinar of the MERSE Project! We will share important lessons learned from the project. Lessons learned on how to make it easier for social entrepreneurship in rural areas through cross-border collaborations in the five NPA regions participating in the project.
- In the webinar we will showcase results from three-year cooperation between five regions in Iceland, Ireland, Finland, Norway and Sweden on how to make it easier to start and develop social enterprises in rural Europe.
- We will demonstrate models, methods and tools that can be used by both social enterprises and local entrepreneurship support functions to facilitate the start-up and development of social enterprises in rural areas.
- We will also demonstrate examples of business models for social enterprises.
- And, we will present best practice examples of how municipality-community cooperation can be designed for mutual social value creation.
- We will provide policy recommendations to encourage municipalities to include social enterprises in their strategies and action plans to legitimize the important role that social entrepreneurs play in enabling the living conditions in rural communities.
Come and be inspired by social entrepreneurs, business support organizations, decision-makers and researchers who will share knowledge and experiences from cross-border on how to make it easier to start and run rural social enterprises.
Warm welcome!
