CommUnity map

🔴 BELGIUM

1. Integrated Health and Social Centres (Brussels)

This initiative aligns strongly with CommUnity’s mission to reduce social and economic inequalities and improve community well-being. The centres’ integrated, community-based approach mirrors the project’s emphasis on localised welfare services, accessibility, and support for vulnerable adults, especially those facing complex barriers. The use of the Medibus parallels CommUnity’s goal of promoting flexible, inclusive outreach models, which can later inspire entrepreneurs through the project’s digital map and training modules.

2. Federal Community Health Worker (CHW) Programme

The CHW model reflects CommUnity’s focus on empowerment, community support networks, and tackling inequalities. CHWs help vulnerable adults navigate services—exactly the kind of welfare practice ComUnity aims to showcase on its interactive map. Their trust-building role also aligns with CommUnity’s approach to community-based entrepreneurship, where local knowledge, inclusion, and soft skills are essential. This model is a useful reference for training adult entrepreneurs on how to embed social responsibility into their businesses.

3. IDESS – Employment Development Initiative in Informal Care Services

IDESS is highly relevant because it links welfare support with local employment creation, directly matching CommUnity’s objective of empowering adults to build resilient, socially responsible businesses. These small-scale services exemplify how micro-entrepreneurship can address community needs that private companies overlook—an ideal case for the workshops and ideathons planned in Belgium, Italy, and Norway.

4. Service Voucher Scheme

This is an example of a policy-driven mechanism that supports vulnerable workers, especially low-skilled adults—one of CommUnity’s main target groups. The scheme demonstrates how economic empowerment, employment access, and local service ecosystems can be strengthened, which is precisely the type of best practice the project intends to include in its digital map and use as inspiration in the creation of Business Welfare Plans in each partner country.

5. Enabel’s Social and Economic Inequality Programs

Enabel’s multidimensional approach (skills, entrepreneurship, digital inclusion, gender equality) reflects the holistic model CommUnity promotes. Their focus on inclusive markets supports the project’s aim to train adults in building socially responsible and sustainable business models. This is directly relevant for the online platform, where Enabel’s practices can enrich the knowledge base on sustainable business and community welfare.

6. Public Centre for Social Welfare (OCMW/CPAS)

The OCMW/CPAS structure embodies local welfare governance, aligning with the project’s commitment to decentralised, community-driven solutions. Their emphasis on social assistance, integration income, and personalised support can serve as reference material for CommUnity entrepreneurs designing welfare-oriented business strategies. It also reinforces the importance of localised welfare ecosystems, a key component of the project’s interactive map.

7. Go4Brussels 2030 Strategy

This regional strategy addresses social inequality, healthcare access and system reform, which directly matches CommUnity’s priority: social inclusion and community welfare. For entrepreneurs participating in the project, the Go4Brussels approach offers insights into system-level transformations and how small businesses can complement public welfare goals. It also fits well into the platform’s mapping of regional welfare reforms.

8. PPS Social Integration Initiatives (Housing First, MIRIAM, FEAD)

These initiatives embody integrated welfare responses—housing, health, employment, which resonates with the project’s multidimensional vision. Their focus on vulnerable adults and single mothers aligns with CommUnity’s target groups, and their successful models provide high-quality case studies for the digital map. Housing First is also relevant for ideathons, as it represents a strong example of community-driven innovation.

9. Child and Family Agency (Kind en Gezin – Flanders)

While focused on children and families, this initiative showcases preventive welfare, early intervention, and integrated services—all consistent with CommUnity’s priority on reducing social inequalities and strengthening community well-being. For entrepreneurs and community stakeholders, it demonstrates how coordinated welfare ecosystems can support social equity, informing the project’s Business Welfare Plans.

10. Fedasil – Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers

Fedasil’s comprehensive support for asylum seekers connects with CommUnity’s emphasis on inclusive services, vulnerable populations, and social cohesion. Many aspiring entrepreneurs in the project (especially in Norway and Belgium) may come from migrant backgrounds, making the Fedasil model an example of how holistic support systems can facilitate integration. It also contributes to the digital map’s section on migration-related welfare infrastructures.

🟠 NORWAY

1. NavigateNorway (Caritas Digital Inclusion Course) – Oslo

NavigateNorway directly supports CommUnity’s goal of reducing inequalities through digital and welfare inclusion. The course mirrors the project’s aim to help vulnerable adults (especially migrants) access public services, strengthen autonomy, and prevent exclusion. Its hands-on digital training and multi-language support align perfectly with CommUnity’s Work Package on adult skills for welfare navigation and with the interactive map’s best practices for integration and digital empowerment.

2. Matsentralen – Norway’s Food Bank Network (Nationwide)

Matsentralen embodies the type of community-based welfare ecosystem CommUnity wants to showcase. It targets vulnerable individuals through NGOs, and its circular-economy model combines social inclusion + environmental sustainability, matching CommUnity’s dual focus on community welfare and socially responsible business models. It also demonstrates effective public–private collaboration, relevant for the Business Welfare Plans the project will produce.

3. Aktiv på dagtid (Daytime Activity Program) – Nationwide

This program promotes physical and social well-being among adults outside the labour force — the exact population CommUnity prioritizes. It’s a strong example of low-threshold inclusion services, municipal cooperation, and health-based social participation, all relevant for the training paths on community welfare and the platform’s repository of inclusion models.

4. Fellesverket (Red Cross Youth Community Hubs) – Nationwide

Although youth-focused, Fellesverket embodies community cohesion, free access to social spaces, and skills development — key principles in CommUnity. Its volunteer-based structure is highly relevant for social entrepreneurship models the project wants to promote, and for understanding how community hubs foster welfare and prevent exclusion.

5. “A Good Neighbour” (Save the Children / IMDi) – Nationwide

This initiative is a clear example of volunteer-supported integration and family-centered welfare access. It aligns with CommUnity’s attention to migrant families, inclusion pathways, and community-based support. Its mentoring approach can directly inspire CommUnity’s community engagement methodologies and practice-transfer tools.

6. Gatejuristen (Street Lawyers) – Oslo/Bergen/Trondheim

Gatejuristen provides low-threshold legal aid to highly vulnerable adults — which directly connects to CommUnity’s objective of improving access to welfare rights and reducing structural inequalities. This is especially relevant for the project’s competence package on navigating welfare, legal, and social systems.

7. ALLE MED (“All IN”) Inclusion Toolkit – Nationwide

ALLE MED demonstrates how structured community dialogue can remove participation barriers for low-income families. The toolkit’s methodology perfectly aligns with CommUnity’s participatory workshops, offering a ready-made approach for inclusion audits that can be embedded into the project’s capacity-building activities.

8. Norway Unlimited (Tøyen Incubator + Others) – Oslo/Stavanger/Drammen

This is one of the closest Norwegian matches to CommUnity’s aims. It supports local social entrepreneurship, helps vulnerable groups create welfare-oriented solutions, and operates through neighbourhood incubators — exactly like CommUnity’s focus on community-driven welfare solutions and adult empowerment. It can inform the project’s entrepreneurial training modules and the digital social innovation map.

9. Helt Med – Nationwide

Helt Med promotes supported employment for adults with disabilities — strongly relevant for CommUnity’s focus on labour inclusion, reducing inequalities, and empowering disadvantaged adults. It exemplifies how inclusive employment models and employer partnerships can boost autonomy and social integration.

10. Magisk Kunnskap – Hugin & Munin

While school-focused, this initiative addresses linguistic and digital barriers for migrant youth. It aligns with CommUnity’s approach to language and digital accessibility and can inspire the platform’s section on educational inclusion and digital tools, useful for adult migrants as well.

11. Diversify KRAFT – Lillestrøm/Viken

KRAFT directly overlaps with CommUnity’s long-term aim to boost entrepreneurship among marginalized adults, especially women and minorities. Its intensive bootcamp + mentorship structure can inform the project’s adult entrepreneurial toolkit, and it provides a Norwegian benchmark for inclusive business support.

12. Academic Work Norway (Academy Track)

This model represents fast-track digital upskilling + immediate employment, relevant to CommUnity’s emphasis on adult empowerment and employability, particularly for career changers and those excluded from traditional education. Strong connection to the project’s skills development pillar.

13. GET Academy – Larvik/Sandefjord

GET Academy aligns with CommUnity’s interest in inclusive training for vulnerable groups and in developing digital labour market access. Its mentor-based, practical learning approach fits the project’s focus on empowerment through skills and can enrich the online platform’s training repository.

14. Sisters in Business – Oslo

This initiative reflects CommUnity’s commitment to women’s empowerment, migrant inclusion, and sustainable microenterprise models. It demonstrates how social entrepreneurship can merge inclusion with circular economy principles — directly relevant to the Business Welfare Plan development.

15. Unicus Norway – Oslo (plus Sweden/Finland)

Unicus exemplifies inclusive employment for neurodivergent adults, a priority group within CommUnity’s inclusion framework. It highlights how business innovation can harness diversity while supporting welfare outcomes, reinforcing the project’s argument that inclusive enterprises strengthen communities.

16. Abri Dialogue – Oslo

This initiative aligns perfectly with CommUnity’s storytelling, community empowerment, and digital literacy components. It strengthens social participation and entrepreneurship through media and creativity — matching CommUnity’s interest in digital content creation for inclusion.

17. Papillon – Bergen

Papillon’s work on identity, civic empowerment, and multicultural youth inclusion fits the project’s goals of fostering cohesive, inclusive communities and developing local participation ecosystems. It provides a Norwegian example of peer-led empowerment, relevant for project workshops.

18. Batteriet – Multiple Cities

Batteriet strengthens grassroots organizations, providing exactly the civil-society infrastructure CommUnity wants to map and support. Its capacity-building model for NGOs aligns with CommUnity’s aim to reinforce local welfare actors, empower underfunded groups, and stimulate community-led innovation.

🟢 ITALY

1. NIDI – Nuove Iniziative d’Impresa (Puglia)

NIDI is a strong example of financial empowerment for disadvantaged adults, directly matching CommUnity’s goal of helping unemployed, vulnerable, or economically fragile individuals start sustainable businesses. Its simplified access procedures align with the project’s commitment to reducing barriers to entrepreneurship, and it offers a concrete best practice to include on the interactive digital map and use during Business Welfare Plan workshops. The model shows how targeted funding can activate community welfare by enabling new micro-enterprises in local economies.

2. TecnoNIDI – Technological Start-up Support

TecnoNIDI fits perfectly within CommUnity’s ambition to promote innovation-driven, community-oriented entrepreneurship. By supporting tech and green start-ups, it aligns with the project’s interest in sustainable growth, digital transitions, and economic resilience. It provides a relevant case study for the digital map, especially for training adults who want to integrate sustainability, green technologies, or ICT solutions into their business ideas during the ideathons.

3. Cooperativa di Comunità di Biccari

The Biccari community cooperative is a textbook example of community welfare through local entrepreneurship, mirroring CommUnity’s mission to build resilient local economies through bottom-up participation. Its model—cooperative governance, local stakeholder involvement, and community-based tourism—illustrates how adults can collectively address local challenges. It is highly useful for the project’s workshops, showing how small communities can turn social needs into business opportunities.

4. Distretto Produttivo Puglia Creativa

This creative industries district contributes to CommUnity’s goal of strengthening local ecosystems of collaboration and innovation. It showcases how structured networks can support entrepreneurship in the cultural sector—important for adult learners seeking to transform creative skills into viable welfare-oriented businesses. The district’s collaborative approach aligns well with the networking and partnership ambitions of the CommUnity platform and will serve as a valuable reference point on the map.

5. Fondazione Le Costantine

Le Costantine demonstrates how traditional crafts, women’s empowerment, and sustainable practices can become engines of community welfare and local entrepreneurship. This perfectly aligns with CommUnity’s priority of supporting vulnerable adults—especially women—and promoting skill-based micro-enterprise development. It is a strong example for workshops about socially responsible business models and for ideathons focusing on sustainability and heritage-based entrepreneurship.

6. Puglia ti vorrei – Youth Engagement Strategy

Although youth-focused, this initiative embodies the participatory, bottom-up methodology that is central to CommUnity’s approach to community welfare. It illustrates how public consultations can shape inclusive policies—useful for training adult entrepreneurs to engage with their own communities and understand local needs. It also reinforces the role of co-creation, which is a core element of both the workshops and the ideathons.

7. Youth for the Social Programme (Giovani per il Sociale)

This national programme shows how social innovation and community-oriented projects can empower young people in disadvantaged regions, including Puglia. For CommUnity, it provides examples of how third-sector organisations support social inclusion and economic participation—key themes for adult entrepreneurs who will develop Business Welfare Plans. It reinforces the idea that entrepreneurship can be a tool for welfare, not just profit.

8. Resto al Sud

Resto al Sud is directly aligned with CommUnity’s commitment to stimulating entrepreneurship among adults with fewer opportunities. Its mix of grants and interest-free loans provides a scalable example of how financial incentives can revitalize regions affected by economic stagnation and depopulation. This will be extremely useful for the project’s digital map, displaying a high-impact initiative that connects funding, community welfare, and job creation.

9. Pass Laureati 2025

Pass Laureati enhances adult upskilling and lifelong learning, which is a central priority of CommUnity. By facilitating access to postgraduate training, it helps adult learners (including unemployed graduates) improve their employability and entrepreneurial potential. This initiative fits very well within the project’s objective of promoting high-quality adult education pathways, and can enrich the platform’s training resources for adults aged 35+ seeking to re-enter the labour market or start new ventures.