Programme: Interreg IVC

Lifetime: January 2012 – September 2014

Keywords: CSR, SMEs, good practices, policies

Objective: Desur wants to encourage the sharing of knowledge between regions in order to improve policies that promote social responsibility in SMEs.

To this end, the foreseen actions are:

1) identification of good policy practices in the inclusion of social responsibility in SMEs business model;

2) analysis of best practices to find out the success factors and the elements necessary for their transfer from one region / geographical area to another;

3) dissemination of the lessons learned through the development of actions and tools enabling other regions to improve their policies;

4) ensuring the durability of the results obtained by designing implementation plans and defining the measures to be taken by the regional / local authorities.

Partnership:

• Fundecyt – Spain – Lead partner
• South West Regional Authority, Ballincollig Regional Authority – Ireland;
• Region of Western Macedonia, European Programmes Office – Greece;
• Province of Bologna – Italy;
• Pannon Business Network Association – Hungary;
• Institute of Environmental Engineering Kaunas University of Technology - Lithuania;
• Labour fund Zasavje, foundation for active employment policy – Slovenia.

Website: http://www.desur.eu/