On February 16th, 2017, UtilDeco social enterprise, established within Close to You Foundation won first prize as “Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2016” within the only worldwide entrepreneurial competition, taking place in Romania as well, as of 2014. The “Entrepreneur of the Year” programme, organised by Ernst&Young, was set up in 1986, in the USA

Between the 1st and 8th of February, Maria Elisabeth Grimberg and Gilberto Ohta de Oliveira visited UtilDeco within “SUSY – Sustainable and Solidarity” Project. The project is co-financed by the European Union and it involves 26 organisations from 23 European countries designed to promote good practice models on social economy and solidarity in Europe and