COWLECTIVE

Companies with a social impact take advantage of the growing awareness of society toward social and enviromental problems, transforming these challenges into enormous business opportunities. From a broader point of view, the business reason should be related to the great social and environmental challenges. Entrepreneurs are the engine of economic growth in Europe. It is a well-known fact that SMEs are the most important form of business organization in Europe, representing 99.8% of all enterprises. What is much less known is the growing importance of coworking spaces, which have become a common working place for freelancers and young entrepreneurs, with more than 14.000 operators around the world. Coworking is a multi-dimensional booming industry and a strengthening cultural movement remodelling the very notion of what workplace is, dedicated to providing support to those entrepreneurs who wish to go beyond the traditional schemes. However, several needs are usually identified by coworking spaces, coworkers and entrepreneurs, among which the need to improve the level of social interaction in the coworking space to increase the social impact of their activities.

COWLECTIVE (Developing a collaborative social impact method and associated training for entrepreneurs in coworking contexts) is a 24-month Erasmus+ EU project that includes 5 organizations from 5 European countries (Denmark, Poland, Spain, Greece and Italy).