This publication, which was produced in the frame of the Interreg Europe-funded “Social Enterprises in Sparsely Populated Areas – SOCENT SPAs” project, provides the reader with good examples social enterprise and social innovations as well as strategies for their development and support. The good practices have been collected from four different sparsely populated areas: Castile and León (Spain), Gemer (Slovakia), Brandenburg (Germany) and Lapland (Finland). The publication should act as a source of inspiration to other regions facing similar challenges. It shows that even in the most sparsely populated areas good examples of innovative, ground-breaking initiatives can flourish.
