The Bulgarian representatives in the two European consortia SI PLUS and FUSE, which are working on the construction of National Competence Center in Bulgaria, also participated in a working meeting with Natalia Efremova, Deputy Minister for Labor and Social Policy, Tsvetan Spasov, Director of the OP Regions in Growth’s Management Board and their teams, to discuss the progress in preparing a model of the structure and functioning of the National Competence Center in the field of social innovation in Bulgaria.
Denitsa Lozanova and Svetlana Lomeva presented the results from the study of the social innovations ecosystem in Bulgaria and the experience in the EU, created by the SDA team, as well as the first ideas for the framework of the Center’s model. In the coming months, through design seminars in various places in Bulgaria SDA will validate the ideas for structure, content scope, thematic priorities of the future Center, so that it will benefit the ecosystem of social innovations.
The SI PLUS project is funded by the EUROPEAN COMMISSION, European Social Fund and European Programme for Employment and Social Innovation.