Stakeholder Brief #9 | Sport as a community builder: social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in sports

This Stakeholder Brief is a summary of the debates that emerged in the Research Workshop “Sport as a community builder: Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in sports” of Working Group 2 (“Social enterprise in industries”) of the COST Action “Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars” (Empower-SE), held online on 11 December 2020.

Within this new field of research and practice, the workshop succeeded in creating a fruitful discussion forum among over 20 researchers from 9 EU countries who are studying sports and its connections with social entrepreneurship from the perspective of different disciplines. Researchers, practitioners and policymakers shared their ongoing research, case studies and insights and contributed to shedding light on this new “industry”.