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Is culture really good for you? Impacts on well-being

03 June 2022 Nina Trouvé and Shayne MacLachlan

The Covid-19 pandemic created a new normal of consuming culture from the couch. Policy makers must take advantage of the great re-opening to expand participation and create equitable access to culture. Where do they start to improve well-being?

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Is financial diversification the key to SME resilience?

29 March 2022 Miriam Koreen

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs were hit extremely hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. To invest in growth and greening and play a full part in the recovery, we need to enable them to tap into alternative financial instruments.

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Me, my region and… a mine! Can better mining support better lives?

17 March 2022 Andres Sanabria and Ian Wood

Mining regions face acute challenges in terms of well-being. National plans and policies alone will not bring well-being gains to mining communities.

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What can we learn about the circular economy from social entrepreneurs?

16 February 2022 Stephan Kampelmann

Every year the city of Brussels imports over 60 000 tons of wood, when the wood could be sourced from the Sonian Forest just outside the city. Instead, most of the wood sourced from the forest is exported to Asia to be processed and sent back as finished products. The Sonian Wood Coop was launched in 2019 to change this dynamic.

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It’s a Match: Reskilling refugees to meet Germany’s growing IT needs

07 February 2022 Anne Kjær Bathel

Established during Germany’s “refugee crisis” six years ago, the ReDI School of Digital Integration brings together IT professionals to teach coding and basic computer skills to refugees and migrants.

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“Open for business?” How to create opportunities in entrepreneurship for everyone

03 December 2021 David Halabisky

Not everyone has an equal opportunity to transform their ideas into a business. There could be an additional 9 million people starting and managing new

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Missing Entrepreneurs 2021

Gender gaps in entrepreneurship are costing economies dearly

29 November 2021 David Halabisky

There are long-standing gender gaps in entrepreneurship. Women in OECD countries are about two-thirds as likely as men to be working on a start-up or young business.

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Preparing the SME workforce for the fourth industrial revolution

19 September 2018 Iris Arbel

The globalisation of the world’s economy, jointly with the digitisation and automation of traditional production, has become both an opportunity and a challenge for smaller companies and nations – a particularly “human” one. For small and medium enterprises (SMEs), current employees and work forces would have to learn to operate …

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