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Abstract Submission Deadline: May 5th!
Link to the conference website: Social Entrepreneurship Summit 2026 Rome & Online
Link to the submission platform: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ses26
The 2026 Social Entrepreneurship Summit will be hosted by LUMSA University in Rome from 10 until 11 September. After 7 successful editions, the summit has attracted the interest of over 1000 participants from around the world, including those attending in person and online. Our most recent summit was held in Barranquilla, Colombia with more than 100 participants attending from different countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and Latin America. Alongside the summit, we also host the Social Entrepreneurship Fair, a parallel event that provides local social entrepreneurs with an opportunity to showcase their projects, sell their products, exchange ideas with participants, and receive feedback on how to further develop their ventures while increasing their impact.
We are proud to present the SES2026 edition "Entrepreneurship with Purpose, Advancing Theory and Practice of Impact-Driven Enterprises". We look forward to engaging with academics and practitioners in discussing different micro, meso, and macro-level elements, processes, resources, and actors required to design and implement suitable strategies to maximize social impact. In our current times, where we are facing the post covid global shock, and amidst several international conflicts, this topic has become quite relevant and sound. This summit will open the space for debating and constructing ideas on how to develop further ecosystems that can support more sustainable, resilient and longslasting business models of social enterprises.
Hope to meeting you in Rome!
Prof. dr. Nikolay A. Dentchev
Professor of Social Entrepreneurship
Department of Entrepreneurship
University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria
President of ELANET - https://www.elanet-se.org
Advisory Board Member of New Business Model Conference Series - https://www.newbusinessmodels.org/
Associate Editor of Business and Society Review - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678594
+359 (0)895 883 855
nikolay.dentchev@unwe.bg
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Prof.dr. Nikolay A. Dentchev
Chair of Social Entrepreneurship
Faculty of Economic & Social Sciences and Solvay Business School
Department of Business – Management and Strategy
M +32 (0)477 91 71 21
W vubsocialentrepreneurship.com
Skype: prof.dr.nikolay.dentchev
Pleinlaan 2 - 1050 Brussel - Belgium
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