Mouvement Impact France at the EN Impact Summit to promote impact entrepreneurship in Europe

From March 19 to 21, the Mouvement Impact France was in The Hague to take part in the Euclid Network General Assembly and the EN Impact Summit, the benchmark international event for the world of impact entrepreneurship. The aim: to contribute to the structuring and development of impact entrepreneurship in Europe!

Mouvement Impact France is one of the founding members of the Euclid Network, born in December 2014 to bring European funding for social enterprises closer together and foster connections and exchanges of best practice between organizations representing social entrepreneurship in Europe and beyond.

As such, the Mouvement took part in the network's General Meeting on March 19 to decide on the organization's main orientations and support the development of impact entrepreneurship throughout the continent. 

Over the following two days, more than 200 heads of businesses and business networks, economic and political decision-makers from the world of impact gathered at the EN Impact Summit to discuss the theme of "Building Bridges from Intention to Action". The program included numerous conferences, workshops and masterclasses to draw inspiration from best practices in Europe and envision the future of the impact economy. 

Since its creation, the Impact France movement has been striving to build bridges between players in the committed economy at local, national and European level, and these few days in The Hague were a key part of this drive to structure a rapidly expanding impact economy ecosystem across the continent.

With the forthcoming European elections fast approaching, Mouvement Impact France was in The Hague to continue the work it has been doing for months to bring together players in the committed economy through the Business for a Better Tomorrow coalition, which it initiated. For three days, the Movement carried this powerful rallying dynamic to the ecosystem and to economic and political decision-makers who were delighted to see the emergence of a European green and social alternative to the traditional business and industrial lobbies. 

With two months to go before the elections, the Business for a Better Tomorrow coalition's manifesto will be the rallying point for the committed economy across Europe!

Finally, these few days in The Hague were also an opportunity to consider the development of several of the Movement's strategic European projects for the future of the impact economy: 

👉L'Impact Lab - L'action tank au service de l'économie de demain, which for the past two years has been giving French companies the means to accelerate on the subjects of impact and transformation.

👉The B2B Buy Social Europe project, which aims to encourage the development of responsible and sustainable purchasing policies across the continent.

👉The European Social Enterprise Monitor project, which aims to fill the data gap on impact enterprises in Europe and thus help shape tomorrow's public policies in favor of impact entrepreneurs.

Contact: Malo Bourel-Weeger, European Advocacy Manager: mbourel@impactfrance.eco