Business model tool box – Greece

1. Social Enterprise Ecosystem (for example the legal framework, authorities responsible for social enterprises in your country, business support organizations etc..)

Legal framework

• Law 4019/2011
• Law 4430/2016
• A study on the Social and Solidarity Economy Legal Framework in Greece

Key actors in the greek ecosystem:

Policymakers

• Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Directorate for Social and Solidarity Economy
• Regional Centers for Support of Social and Solidarity Economy

Research institutes and others

• Athens Economic University educational programme on social and solidarity economy
• Hellenic Open University, postgraduate programme in Social and Solidarity Economy
• Heinrich Böll Institute Greece
• Social Economy Institute, Thessaloniki
• National Center for Social Research, Observatory for the Social Economy

2. Finance (banks or other institution providing financial support to social enterprises)

• Cooperative Bank of Karditsa
• Cooperative Bank of Crete
• Action Finance Initiative
• The Peoples Trust
• Bodosaki Foundation
• Stavros Niarchos Foundation
• John S. Latsis Foundation

3. Business planning information (online platforms that offer courses on business creation, planning, management, scale up etc)

• Dock zone
• Educational Platform for the Social and Solidarity Economy
• Social entrepreneurial forum
• Initiative for the Social and Solidarity Economy
• Hellenic Network of Social Cooperatives