FAB-MOVE Work Package I (Stocktaking of Knowledge about Social Enterprises) was concluded in May 2017 with the submission of 13 country reports and three comparative reports.
The country reports provide information about the history and development of social enterprises, their political and economic environment, and the discourse on social entrepreneurship in the respective countries. The comparative reports focus on "the evolution, discourses and supporting structures of social enterprises", "social enterprises relation to other sectors in international perspective", and "social entrepreneurship in the emerging markets countries".
Work Package II (Successful Social Enterprises) has been concluded with the submission of the FAB-MOVE case study reports of social enterprises in 12 countries and our WP leaders’ final recommendations for the project’s final outcome, the Teaching Tool.
Work Package III (Dissemination and Impact) centered on the conceptualization and set-up of the project's final outcome, the Teaching Tool. For an enduring sustainable impact, the central results of FAB-MOVE have been published on this interactive website to educate (future) managers of social enterprises.
Furthermore, throughout the project, on our FAB-MOVE website a weekly updated News section provided insights into secondments and dissemination activities, allowing seconded staff members to share their impressions with the broader public. During their secondments, staff members disseminated results and knowledge via workshops held at their receiving institutions; researchers held lectures about social enterprise research in their home countries, theoretical considerations and research questions. Practitioners run workshops for students and scholars in the receiving academic institutions, giving insights into their daily work, the evolution, and current challenges and plans of their social enterprise. Furthermore, FAB-MOVE researchers have presented our results at numerous national and international conferences (e.g. 12th International ISTR Conference 2016; ARNOVA Conference 2016, EMES Conference 2017, CIRIEC Conference 2017, 13th International ISTR Conference 2018). With its international and intersectoral secondments FAB-MOVE has also fostered the transfer of knowledge between academics and nonacademics and thus increased the practical applicability of our research findings.
Altogether we managed to implement 258 researcher-months which means an implementation rate of 97,5 % of all planned secondments.
