Two working meetings under project “Social Inclusion of Offenders by Innovative Models of Social Enterprises” took place in January and February. They were held in Chepelare and Troyan (one in South Bulgaria and one in North Bulgaria). Representatives of NGOs and municipalities developing social services for offenders or having active social enterprises took part in them.

Several things were presented – the experience of Germany, the Province of Brandenburg and Berlin, in the development of innovative models of the social enterprises for offenders, the results of the conducted Focus Groups in Kardzhali, Pleven, Shumen, Isperih, Burgas, and Blagoevgrad, the adapted models of social enterprises for offenders and the possibilities for their adoption in the Bulgarian practice. In the practical part of the meetings a model for a business plan of a social enterprise was looked at as well as the specific ways of establishing it. Different ideas were shared on this and a project of a social enterprise with a technical assignment for the applied specialists was also discussed. Both two working meetings ended with a thorough discussion which examined the results of the activities under the adoption of the most innovative and suitable for the Bulgarian conditions models.
The project aims at surveying specific models of innovative social enterprises for offenders in Germany and experimenting with them in Bulgaria as well as distributing and exchanging information and experience in the social enterpreneurship in reintegrating offenders.
Crime Prevention Fund – IGA is a leading organization under the Project and its partners are “xit-GmbH” – Germany and Association “Training and Service Centre”.
The project has been funded under Operative Programme “Human Resources Development” and co-funded by the European Union through the European Social Fund, Scheme for Free Financial Assistance: BG051PO001-7.0.01 “NO BOUNDARIES – COMPONENT 1 –Phase 2”, Contract № BG051PO001-7.0.07-0140.