European Social Business Week held in Sweden

Second European Social Business Week was held in Lund and Malmö recently.

Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus attended the week-long Forum as the chief guest, said a press release.

Social problems in Europe and their solutions were discussed and explored by academics, entrepreneurs, students, NGOs and public officials during the Week.

The Week was launched by the vice chancellor of Lund University.

The topic of this year's European Social Business Forum was "Social Business in the European Union" which aimed to foster discussions and collaborations and enabled the participants, a rich diversity of the social economy as well as entrepreneurs and students, to share ideas and experiences.

Professor Yunus spoke on "The role of social business to exit the crisis in Europe".

He explained the concept of social business and the effect of every individual's creative power to society.

Through presentations, panel discussions, and workshops the Forum elaborated on the relevance and implementation of social business in Sweden and the European Union.

International participants, representing private and public sectors as well as civil society organisations, were present on the occasion.