Location: Industrie Fluviali Via del Porto Fluviale, 35, 00154 Rome, Italy.
Date and Time: 21 February 2025 (Day 2)
Target Audience: The target audience for the focus group will be stakeholders, policymakers and legislators.
Aim of the focus group: The focus group aims to gather information on the current policy landscape in Europe, foster collaboration among stakeholders to develop cohesive and effective policy frameworks and explore strategies for creating a policy recommendations report. An additional goal is to “re- frame the problem” of social entrepreneurs and innovators, incorporating diverse perspectives and generating improvement ideas to address the challenges faced by Network Members.
Agenda:
Time
Duration (hrs)
Section
9:30 – 10:00
30’
Welcoming & Registrations
10:00 – 10:15
15’
Introductory Remarks Overview of the focus group objectives and agenda.
10:15 – 11:45
90’
Focus Group Discussions The focus group discussion will cover topics related to the Current Policy Landscape and Gaps, Designing Collaboration Mechanisms for Policy Frameworks, Creating Policy Frameworks for Social Entrepreneurship Financing, and Practical Difficulties and Needs of Social Entrepreneurs.
11:45 – 12:45
60’
Initiate Solutions to Merge the Gap Within working groups, engage in brainstorming sessions to generate solutions for each identified problem. Refine these ideas collaboratively and then present them to the group for feedback and suggestions for improvement
12:45 – 13:00
15’
Conclusion and Next Steps Summarize the key ideas of the focus group discussions and outline the next steps for implementing and testing the ideas
13:00 – 13:30
30’
Light Lunch & Networking
*Additional topics could be the Practical Difficulties and Needs of Social Entrepreneurs, Financial and Non-Financial Support Mechanisms, Public-Private Partnerships and Collaboration, Impact Measurement and Accountability, Education and Capacity Building, Inclusive and Sustainable Development Goals, and Innovation and Technology Adoption
Head of Unit, ‘Proximity, Social Economy and Creative Industries’, at the European Commission.
An EU official since 2002, she has held different positions at services and Cabinet-level at the European Commission and the Council of the EU, relating to tourism and textiles, culture and media policy, creative industries, and external relations. Before joining the EU civil service, Anna worked as Adviser to two Ministers of Culture in Greece and as Director of Programme Planning for the Athens 2004 Cultural Olympiad. In parallel, she lectured on History of Art and Cultural Management. Anna studied Archaeology (University of Thessaloniki), specialised in History of Art, where she holds an M.A. (George Washington University) and a Ph.D (Courtauld Institute of Art), and is the author of publications on History of Art and cultural policy.
