Good practices and initiatives of social entrepreneurship on creative sectors 0 Reply

After two amazing sessions, the first one introducing the existing potential link between creative and social entrepreneurship, the second one analysing hub managers and entrepreneurs competences and challenges; a third session which will take place next Tuesday 10 November, will focus on fundraising and partnerships. With the aim to conclude the cycle by sharing inspiring iniciatives we will organise a fourth session smart practices on social entrepreneurship on creative sectors.

As we discussed last WTuesday 27 October, social entrepreneurs are dream makers who share knowledge with the community in order to build a better future together. It´s a persistent non-conformist who search through creativity and innovation succesful solutions for social change.

During the fourth session of our cycle on “Creative Hubs and Social Entrepreneurship as vehicles for Social Change“, we would like to talk about smart models that can inspire other people in the path to achieve their dream. With this purpose we will welcome amazing people next Wednesday 11 November from 15h00 to 16h30 (London time) in DC Lisbon (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian), DC Novi Pazar and DC Rio de Janeiro (UCAM University).

In the round-table we will firstly introduce the different organisation models we can find in the social and creative entrepreneurship landscape. Hence, our invitees will present their initiatives in detail and share with us the challenges they face and how they support successful projects.

Programme

Moderator: Dalia Sendra, Dialogue Café Association

Special speakers will include:

• DC Lisbon
  • João Santos, Social Business School (IES) of Cascais
  • João Meneses, Creative Hub Mouraria, Municipality of Lisbon

• DC Novi Pazar
  • Dženan Narović, NVO Front

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Becoming Entrepreneur and Hub Manager: creative smoothie of competences 0 Reply

Our cycle on “Creative Hubs and Entrepreneurship for Social Change“ started today with a great introductory session about creative hubs and social entrepreneurship.

Our wonderful participants, representing different types of organisations such as ADDICT, Fermenta NGO, Portuguese Entrepreneurs, NVO Front and SEDA (Regional Development Agency of Sandžak) shared their views and experiences about the development of creative and social entrepreneurship in Portugal and Serbia. Different scenarios but same needs: inspiration, competences, sustainability, fundraising and networking opportunities. Topics that will be raised in the following sessions of this cycle.

For this purpose, the second session of this cycle will be focused on the competences and abilities the entrepreneurs need to ensure in order to provide a successful implementation of their ideas. For sure we´ll discuss a lot about the challenges and the difficulties entrepreneurs and hub managers face everyday but also we´ll share innovative ideas, creative solutions, a lot of hope and great inspiration for them.

The participants of this session will include entrepreneurs as Susana Antonio from Fermenta NGO and Ana Margardida Ferreira from IADE Creative University in Lisbon. Representatives from Rio Criativo will join us in DC Rio de Janeiro and other participants in DC Novi Pazar.

DC- Creative Hubs S2 – 27 October Invitation

DC- Creative Hubs S2 – 27 October Programme

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Elections coverage: before, during and after – what has changed in the networked society. 0 Reply

2nd Session DC – Changing Societies, Changing Journalism

The elections coverage has always been an insteresting subject to discuss upon. Discussing it from the journalists´ point of view and from the political parties point of you is an importante exercise to understand roles and what is expected from each side. Plus it’s also important to try to understand the changes that came with a networked society. Putting social networks in the equation, the diferent kinds of participation that brought new actors to the coverage.

In the framework of the Cycle on “Changing societies, changing journalism: A global discussion on the future of journalism”, organised by the University Institute of Lisbon ISCTE – IUL (Portugal) and the Dialogue Cafe Association, a third session focused on elections coverage will take place next 29 October (from 14h00 to 15h30 London time).

The session untitled “Elections coverage: before, during and after – what has changed in the networked society” will connect people from DC Lisbon (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian) and DC Rio de Janeiro (UCAM University).

Special speakers will include notably: in DC Lisbon, Paula Oliveira, Journalist responsible of Newsdesk, TVI and Gustavo Cardoso, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL); in DC Rio de Janeiro, Fabiano Post, Blogger at Global Voices, and Yesica Fisch, Senior Producer at Associated Press, among many others participants.

DC- Changing Journalism S3 – 29 October Programme

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2015 has been a great year for Dialogue Cafe Network and we will continue working hard in order to create more bridges for Dialogue and Sharing Experiences!

Find here the updated calendar of activities (sep2015-jan2016).

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Exchanging thoughts on creative hubs and entrepreneurship as vehicle for social change 0 Reply

With the aim of supporting social entrepreneurship in creative sectors, the Dialogue Café Association offer its network to address the challenges faced by creative and social entrepreneurs, provide networking and partnerships opportunities, promote research and reflection, share good practices and case studies as well as support the development of social entrepreneur’s competences.

With this purpose, the Dialogue Café Association is organising a programme of sessions on Cycle “Creative Hubs and Entrepreneurship for Social Change”.

First session on “Censorship in a global and changing world: religion, politics and economics”.

In this framework, a first session untitled “Exchanging thoughts on creative hubs and entrepreneurship as vehicle for social change”, will allow us to introduce the main expected outcomes of this cycle of sessions and identify the challenges and opportunities of using creative industries as a tool for social entrepreneurship. Experts, entrepreneurs, makers, organisations promoting social entrepreneurship in the field of creative industries will join us in different cities of the Dialogue Café Network and take the floor to discuss about these issues.

The first session of this cycle on creative hubs and social entrepreneurship will take place next 20 October 2015 from 15h to 16h30 (London time).

Speakers:

DC Lisbon:

• Cristina Farinha, Executive Director of ADDICT, Agency for the development of culture and creative industries north of Portugal
• Susana António, Fermenta NGO, Founder of A Avó veio Trabalhar

DC Novi Pazar:

• Dženan Narović, NVO Front
• Samir Kacapor, SEDA (Regional Development Agency of Sandžak

Cycle on Creative & Social Entrepreneurship – Programme

Session 1 – 20 October Invitation

Session 1 – 20 October Programme

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Dialogue Café in the GreenFest 2015 0 Reply

Along 4 days, Dialogue Café Association has been participating in the NGO´s Fair organised in the framework of the Green Festival 2015, Estoril (Portugal) from 08 to 11 October 2015.

The opening of the NGO´s Fair, where Dialogue Cafe has a stand, took place on October 8th. The President of the Gulbenkian Calouste Foundation, Mr. Artur Santos Silva, core partner of the Dialogue Café Association and host of Dialogue Café Lisbon and Dialogue Café Paris, visited our stand together with Mr. Carlos Carreiras, the President of the Municipality of Cascais and Mr. Ove Thorsheim, Ambassador of Norway.

Among many other organisations participating at the NGO´s Fair, we have promoted Dialogue Café Network and discussed about the powerful tool we have in our hands, with more than hundred interesting people and organisations. Youngsters were excited with Dialogue Café because the idea of discussing with the Other through a video-conferencing system. We presented our work and fields of action (Social Innovation, Sharing Knowledge, Community and Intercultural Dialogue, Entreprise and Entrepreneurship) to people interested in know more about our network.

GreenFest 2015 is full of great activities especially focused on green thinking, social innovation and civic participation, shared objectives of Dialogue Café. Among the NGO´s participating we found some DC partners such as the Rede de Jovens pela Igualdade, the Academia Ubuntu and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

We really hope that our participation in this great festival will bring nice partners and people to Dialogue Café with new ideas, proposals and will for great joint initiatives and cooperation.

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