EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate General Internal Market and Services Single market policy, Relation with the Council Brussels, 21 May 2012 MARKT.01/JCM D(2012) SOCIAL BUSINESS INITIATIVE (SBI) "GROUPE D'EXPERTS DE LA COMMISSION SUR L'ENTREPRENEURIAT SOCIAL" (GECES) 44 SELECTED MEMBERS THROUGH THE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS EXPLANATORY NOTE 0. Note prepared by SBI team at DG MARKT: Jean-Claude Mizzi (+3222958080, jeanclaude.mizzi@ec.europa.eu) & Emmanuel Vallens (+3222992267, emmanuel.vallens@ec.europa.eu), DG MARKT Unit 01 Policy coordinators 1. Call for applications launched: 23 rd February 2012. 2. Deadline to send an application: 9 th April 2012. 3. Application format: 2-page cover letter and CV in Europass format), via e-mail (at the functional e-mail address MARKT-SOCIAL-BUSINESS@ec.europa.eu) or post. 4. Between 23 rd February and 4 th April, the SBI team of MARKT 01 received / answered approximately 80 requests via e-mail and phone calls 5. In term of categories, the following objectives were set: Members categories Number of members Member States 27 (MS) Regional and local authorities & their representatives 8 (LA) Social business and organisations representing or supporting them up to 24 (SB) Banking and finance sector up to 8 (FS) Academic and think tank sector up to 8 (ATT) Total members maximum 70 This implied a perfect balance between public bodies (27 Member States + 8 local authorities) and private bodies. 6. We received applications before and after the deadline. Applications came in well after the deadline, but for the sake of this report, only those which arrived before Friday 20 th April are taken into account for our statistics (date of completion of members' list). 7. DG MARKT received 245 applications, 240 of which from nationals of Member States (98 %), 95 % from applicants outside Belgium, 39 % from women. Out of the 240 applications, 42 (17,6 %) were invalid (deadline not respected, format required not met or application in personal capacity of people outside the academic or research category)..
8. In terms of nationalities of applicants, we received: Nationalities Population in EU27 (%) Number of Applicants from EU MS % % of successful applications Invalid applications TOTAL MS 100 240 98.8 17% 42 18% DE Germany 16.27 16 6.6 44% 3 19% FR France 12.95 39 16.0 15% 7 18% UK United Kingdom 12.42 18 7.4 33% 4 22% IT Italy 12.06 49 20.1 12% 8 16% ES Spain 9.18 21 8.6 19% 6 29% PL Poland 7.60 3 1.2 33% 0 0% R O Romania 4.26 13 5.3 15% 0 0% NL Netherlands 3.31 5 2.0 20% 1 20% EL Greece 2.25 5 2.0 20% 0 0% BE Belgium 2.18 11 4.5 27% 1 9% PT Portugal 2.12 10 4.1 0% 5 50% CZ Czech Republic 2.10 1 0.4 0% 0 0% HU Hungary 1.99 5 2.0 20% 0 0% SE Sweden 1.87 10 4.1 20% 1 10% AT Austria 1.67 3 1.2 33% 0 0% B G Bulgaria 1.49 6 2.5 0% 0 0% DK Denmark 1.11 3 1.2 0% 1 33% SK Slovakia 1.08 0 0.0 0% 0 0% FI Finland 1.07 6 2.5 0% 0 0% IE Ireland 0.89 5 2.0 20% 1 20% LT Lithuania 0.65 2 0.8 0% 1 50% LV Latvia 0.44 1 0.4 0% 0 0% SI Slovenia 0.41 5 2.0 20% 1 20% EE Estonia 0.27 1 0.4 0% 1 100% CY Cyprus 0.16 1 0.4 0% 0 0% LU Luxembour g 0.10 1 0.4 0% 0 0% MT Malta 0.08 1 0.4 0% 1 100% % 9. Main elements to be noted: More applications from southern EU than from the North Few applications from East-European countries (especially Poland) 10. In order to select the members, we set up a jury of 11 colleagues, from DG MARKT, DG ENTR, DG EMPL and BEPA, who assessed in pair all the eligible applications on April 11 th and 12 th. A final selection was done by 6 colleagues from these 4 Commission services on Friday 20 th April. 2
11. In order to select the members, we kept the 84 applications which received a minimum of 60 points (out of 100). Category by category, we then selected the best applications. 12. In a second stage, in order to ensure gender and geographical balance (as stated in the call for applications), we went into more detail and selected more women than pure arithmetic had decided, and adjusted each category and the group as a whole according to the overall objective of geographical balance. 13. Unfortunately less than 8 valid applications from local authorities were considered as good enough to be part of the GECES (score above 60 points). Five of them have been selected, allowing to allocate more members to other categories, taking into account the high quality of applications. 14. The resulting composition of group therefore contains more private representatives (39) than public ones (32): Members categories Number of members Member States 27 (MS) Regional and local authorities & their representatives 5 (LA) Social business and organisations representing or supporting them 20 (SB) Banking and finance sector 10 (FS) Academic and think tank sector 9 (ATT) Total members 71 15. In 2012, Croatia will send 1 observer. In July 2013, when Croatia will become full Member of the European Union, Croatia will send a member to GECES. Anticipating this change in 2013, and since there will not be any call for applications before 2015, the Commission decided to add one extra member to the GECES. Therefore, 44 members were selected through this call for applications. 16. Applicants, in term of categories: Category TARGET max Local Authority 13 5.3% 8 Social Business (and business support organisations) 120 48.6% 24 Financial Sector 43 17.6% 8 Academics and Think-Tanks 70 28.6% 8 TOTAL 246 100.0% 43 3
17. Percentages in term of nationalities and categories: NATIONALITIES of selected applicants ALL MS 44 Category DE Germany 7 LA 5 FR France 6 SB 20 UK United Kingdom 6 FS 10 IT Italy 6 ATT 9 ES Spain 4 TOTAL 44 PL Poland 1 R Romania O 2 NL Netherlands 1 EL Greece 1 BE Belgium 3 PT Portugal 1 CZ Czech Republic 0 HU Hungary 1 SE Sweden 2 AT Austria 1 B Bulgaria G 0 DK Denmark 0 SK Slovakia 0 FI Finland 0 IE Ireland 1 LT Lithuania 0 LV Latvia 0 SI Slovenia 1 EE Estonia 0 CY Cyprus 0 LU Luxembourg 0 MT Malta 0 4
18. Here are the 44 members selected: ALL 44 members selected SURNAME NAME Nationality WOMEN Category Body 1 ADDARII Filippo IT NO SB Euclid Network 2 BARNA Cristina RO YES ATT University of Craiova - University of Bucharest 3 BERGER Jacques FR NO SB Action Tank Entreprise et Pauvreté 4 BLAND Jonathan UK NO SB Social Business International OY 5 BORZAGA Carlo IT NO ATT University of Trento 6 BÖSEL Jochen DE NO LA GIB 7 BOSMA Niels Stefan NL NO ATT Utrecht University School of Economics Global Entrepreneurship Research Association - Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School 8 BUSSI Patrizia IT YES SB ENSIE 9 CALLAWAY Corrinne UK YES FS Social Finance 10 DE LORENZO Giuseppin a IT YES LA Regione Toscana 11 DOPHEIDE Christian DE NO SB Protestant foundation 12 DURAN LOPEZ Alberto ES NO SB Once foundation 13 FAJARDO Ana ES YES LA West Sussex county council 14 GUERINI Giuseppe IT NO SB Confederazione cooperative italiane 15 HAZARD Nicolas FR NO SB Comptoir de l'innovation 16 HEHENBERGER Lisa SE YES FS EVPA 17 HILL Katharine UK YES LA City of London Corporation 18 HOLBROOK Peter UK NO SB Social Entreprise UK 19 HUYSENTRUYT Marieke BE YES ATT Antwerp management School 20 JUSTO Rachida FR YES ATT IE Business School 21 KORES Dolores SI YES SB Slovenian association for Mental Health 22 KUNZ Norbert DE NO SB IQ consult 23 LEITE Antonio PT NO FS Caixa Geral de Depositos 24 LINK Martin DE NO FS KFW Bankengruppe 25 MAYER Judith Lisa DE YES ATT Technische Universität München 26 MERCADIE Michel FR NO SB Social Platform 27 MORGANTI Marco IT NO FS Banca Prossima 28 NASIOULAS Ioannis EL NO ATT University of the Aegean 29 NOGALES Rocio ES YES ATT EMES - Université de Liège 30 O'DONOHOE Nicholas UK NO FS Big Society Capital 31 OLDENBOURG Felix DE NO SB Ashoka Deutschland 32 OLSSON Jan SE NO LA REVES 33 O'SULLIVAN Paul IE NO FS Clann Credo 34 PERRON Jean-Luc FR NO FS Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation 35 PRZYBYSZ Izabela PL YES SB The institute of Public Affairs 36 PUEHRINGER Judith AT YES SB bdv Austria 37 REITZ Hans DE NO SB The Grameen Creative Lab 38 ROELANTS DU VIVIER Bruno BE NO SB CECOP 39 SIBILLE Hugues FR NO FS Crédit Coopératif 40 SINHA Rachel UK YES ATT ICAEW, Chartered Accountants Hall 41 VALCARCEL Mercedes ES YES SB Foundation ISIS 42 VAMESU Ancuta RO YES SB CSDF 43 VAN ECHELPOEL Koen BE NO FS Triodos Bank 44 VARGA Eva HU YES SB NESST Europa 18 women out of 44 members selected 41% 5