According to European Commission (EC), Social Enterprises (SEs) joint social or societal objective with entrepreneurial spirit and common good. An SE is an operator in the social economy and its main goal is to have a social impact. In 2011, the EC launched the Social Business Initiative (SBI) to improve access to finance, achieve more visibility and an optimised legal environment for SEs. Since then some progress has been achieved, such as the inclusion of a line of actions in support to SE as a way to create job opportunities and face poverty in 2014-2020 ESF. The final declaration of the SBI event (Strasbourg, 2014) confirmed the importance of CAPACITY BUILDING, TRAINING & EDUCATION, business start-up and development support for the SEs growth. In the same way, the EC acknowledged that appropriate support is needed to build SEs’ capabilities and capacities and that intermediary bodies and NETWORKING SUPPORT between SEs are critical. A set of obstacles identified, both at national and EU level, are the unclear legislation, poor understanding of SE concept and access to market/finance. The main problem though is focused on lack of TRAINING and INTERACTION among stakeholders from different regions/countries, as confirmed by a recent publication (DG EMPL, 2014).Despite differences, in all partner countries time for social entrepreneurship has come as a preferred route to confront high unemployment, as it is addressing important social needs with an approach that has the potential to be efficient, effective and financially sustainable. Based on the above facts, the @ESEN project aim is to become a catalyst for the rapidly growing social enterprise movement in EU providing social enterprises with the resources they need to succeed, support and grow social entrepreneurship on a national scale and serve as a voice for more sustainable social impact.The @ESEN objectives are: •Building of national and local social enterprise networks by expanding and interconnecting with existing networks •Raising awareness of social enterprise as a way to create job opportunities and face poverty with a positive social impact and promote the work of existing SEs•Curating and sharing knowledge to build capacity through a variety of offerings including the online @ESEN Knowledge Center which will provide: - CAPACITY BUILDING, TRAINING & EDUCATION services to SEs, using ICT to blend methodologies, integrate practices & overcome local boundaries- Success stories of SEs addressing important social needs with an approach that has the potential to be efficient, effective and financially sustainable. The @ESEN target group is active and potential SEs, facilitators, academics, consultants and policy makers in the field of social entrepreneurship &economy organisations looking for opportunities to interact and cooperate at EU level. The main activities that will be carried out in the context of the project, follow a logical sequence which guarantees that, at the end of the project, there will be a fully operative framework supporting sustainable Social Entrepreneurship throughout the EU. Synoptically, the following activities will be undertaken: 1. Transnational survey and analysis on successful stories and recommendations for social entrepreneurship enhancement at European level. 2. The @ESEN Programme and the @ESEN Syllabus to train support and guide active and potential social entrepreneurs in developing their social business idea.3. Creation and operation of the @ESEN eLearning platform to foster pre-incubation, acceleration and entrepreneurial facilitation through blended learning activities for a group of 100 participating the pilot training and open to all interested parties.4. Establishment of the @ESEN Knowledge Network, who will act as a body of networking of social entrepreneurs, social economy organisations, facilitators, business angels, mentors, trainers, students and every European citizen interested in social entrepreneurship and social economy. This network will be expanded to 400 members at EU level, which will continue running after the end of the project and will bring together the most appropriate actors in that topic.The long term perspective is that the @ESEN will become a reference point in social entrepreneurship in Europe, achieving the greatest adhesion from Social Economy Organisations and Social Entrepreneurs, consolidating and developing its services and offering its diverse expertise and qualified competences to public and private clients, generating social business opportunities at EU and international level.