On last 20th of May the three winners of the European Social Competition prize were announced in Brussels by Commissioner Michel Barnier.
1,254 project were submitted to the jury within this second edition of the competition, almost twice more than last year, demonstrating that Europe is plenty of new ground-breaking ideas to create new types of work and address social needs.
The three winning ideas were selected within 30 semi-finalist and awarded with 30,000 € each to further develop in the future months.

MESSE has been recently quoted by the Interreg IVC Programme as one of the financed projects mostly involved in supporting social enterprises in their development paths.

Our good practices, analysis on Public Procurement Procedures and state of the art on social entrepreneurship have been described as useful tool to inspire other regions in boosting and support thier social economy sector.