Two Languages and a New Opportunity

Who said that news watch is not important? This morning, Eric listened to the radio and heard of a new Belgian initiative aiming at encouraging entrepreneurship around what they call “social economy”. The initiative is called ImpulCERA and presents itself as a set of grants given to innovative projects who fulfill the definition of social economy, that is to say:

1. The finality of the project must be to serve the collectivity or the members, rather than to make profits
2. The project must be autonomously managed, outside of the frame of public or traditional private companies
3. The decision process must be democratic
4. Individuals and work must be favored over capital and revenue sharing

As you can see, these criterias have numerous similarities with our values. In fact, our initiative looks a lot like theirs, except we’re adding the notion of a web-based marketplace and the concept of collective micro-investment (or “crowdfunding” as they call it). So we will present a file for this grant, even though our project is somehow atypical since we propose the creation of a meta-structure to facilitate enterprise creation. But all this notion of social economy resonates too much with our vision, and we cannot let this go. And more importantly, the support of their structure can be a great asset to set up ours faster, to add some credit to it, and this grant would allow us to free up some time to work on it 100%.

For the record, since we had to think in French to fill in our application form, et since we notived that some of our supporters would rather use Moliere’s language, we decided to translate this blog in 2 languages and to publish all our content in both English and French. Why keep English? you might ask. Well, simply because we allow ourselves to dream of the globalization of our initiative, and because communicating in a language understandable by most people (no, I won’t learn Chinese) is a form of transparency. So French-speaking friends, let’s hear your comments.

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