On September 24, 2022, a Fair of Social Enterprises and Civil Organizations was held on the plateau in front of the Center for Social Enterprises (behind the Memorial House of Mother Teresa), within the framework of the EU project “Support to Social Enterprises”, implemented by Eptisa, Barka and Ecoris , where the end user is the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, in cooperation with Civica Mobilitas.
Over 40 organizations had the opportunity to present their products and services. Social enterprises through economic activities do good for society, they employ marginalized groups and reinvest their profits in order to solve certain social problems.
Even though social entrepreneurship is in its initial stage, it still has an established basis in our country, we have adopted the national strategy for social entrepreneurship, and a draft law on social entrepreneurship has been prepared.
At the official opening of the fair, the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of economic issues, coordination of economic departments and investments, Fatmir Bitici, the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Enver Huseyin, the Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation in Macedonia, HE Veronik Ullman, gave their address. and the Ambassador of the European Union in Macedonia, HE David Geer.
Five future social enterprises from the Eastern Planning Region participated in the national fair, where citizens could see handicraft products, jewelry, furniture, lamps, clothes, etc. and get to know the work of social enterprises, seeing up close what it means to be a social enterprise and what are the benefits of the same.
Within the framework of the fair of social enterprises and civil society organizations, public procurement training was held for mayors from Macedonia and EU member states. The Law on Public Procurement opens opportunities for supporting social enterprises at the local level.
The fair for the support of social enterprises is part of a series of promotional events within the project.
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