Welcome to SEMPRE - Social Empowerment in Rural Areas

SEMPRE is a three-year transnational cooperation project that is jointly carried out by 16 partner organisations from the Baltic Sea Region. The aim is to explore innovative forms of social service delivery in rural areas, based on the idea of empowering service users. With this website we invite you to get to know our project and the partnership. Please visit "Current project activities" to find out what is going on in SEMPRE right now!

The first results of the SEMPRE project have just been published - have a look at the results section to find out more!

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SEMPRE Final Conference

Published: 2018-12-10

"Make Empowerment Happen!" - this was the motto of the SEMPRE final conference that took place in Riga on 27 and 28 November 2018. It was a lively event, highlighted by the showcase of 18 service user-driven micro projects from all over the Baltic Sea Region.

SEMPRE results published

Published: 2018-11-27

As the Final Conference "Make Empowerment" in Riga, Latvia is starting, we are glad to announce that we have published the first results of our three years of work in the SEMPRE project: The "Empowerment Handbook" that gives practical advice on how to apply user involvement in social service design, a compilation of the micro projects that were developed and implemented in co-creation processes in the SEMPRE partner regions and a "pocket" version of the organisational roadmap.

You'll find these publications here.

Contact

Lead Partner:
Diaconie of Schleswig-Holstein
Project coordinator: Doris Scheer / scheer(at)diakonie-sh.de
Project assistant: Sabine Thommessen / s.thommessen(at)diakonie-sh.de

Project Communication:
REM Consult Lang + Partner, Hamburg
Hauke Siemen / sempre(at)rem-consult.eu

About SEMPRE

"SEMPRE brings power to empowerment"

SEMPRE is a project on social innovation and empowerment of disadvantaged groups in rural areas of the Baltic Sea Region.

The project is part-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) under the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.