Events

Wednesday, 21st October from 10:00 to 11:30 am.

Presentation of the webinar

This year, the European Green week chose to focus on “Nature and Biodiversity”, with the aim of underlining the role of biodiversity in the support and stimulation of the economy, especially in a context of post-pandemic world.

Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) have a role to play in the protection of biodiversity as some of them are engaged into social agriculture. Those WISEs have a double goal, first, as WISEs, they are working on the integration of the most disadvantaged people, and have a social impact. Second, they are organic farms working at a small scale, trying to respect the cycle of plants, to not use chemicals, to work with local varieties and to distribute their production in directly to consumer, they have a positive impact on the preservation of the biodiversity. Therefore, WISEs are a good example of enterprises working towards the protection of the biodiversity while ensuring “social justice, fairness and inclusiveness in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights” as the European Commission Communication on “EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030” called for.  As such, their example should be showcased and spread over Europe as part of the solution.

During this webinar we will first focus on how WISEs can participate to the preservation of biodiversity and then we will focus on three good practices from all over Europe.

Agenda and Registration available here.