26. September. – 01. October 2026.
We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of our EoF Incubator on Krapanj Island, Croatia.
This is our second year! Building on the success of the 2025 program, this immersive week-long incubation of your business ideas and entrepreneurship retreat invites founders, young entrepreneurs, students, researchers, and ecosystem partners to explore how businesses can be designed to serve the common good.
Set within the peaceful surroundings of a Franciscan monastery, the incubator combines practical startup incubation with the timeless wisdom of Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and alternative ownership models such as steward-ownership and cooperatives. Participants will delve into tools and frameworks for non-extractive business design, systems thinking, sustainable finance, and mission-aligned growth, fostering enterprises that enrich communities, protect creation, and prioritize purpose over profit.
This unique program is open to anyone committed to building businesses with soul, from social innovators and impact investors to clergy and change-makers curious about reimagining economic life. Together, we will reflect, co-create, and forge networks that support entrepreneurial work rooted in human dignity, ecological care, and shared flourishing.
Here’s a glimpse of what awaits you if you join the program:
- The EoF Incubator on the island of Krapanj offers a one-week intensive program designed for entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs who want to develop businesses rooted in purpose, sustainability, and solidarity.
- The program focuses especially on the development of non-extractive business models, or, if business is already established, on the transition from extractive to non-extractive business models, helping participants rethink how value is created, shared, and sustained within the economy.
- Through lectures, workshops, and collaborative project work, participants will explore the principles of the Catholic social teaching and their practical application in business.
- During the incubator, participants will gain knowledge about entrepreneurship, circular and community-based economic models, and alternative ownership structures such as steward ownership.
- Participants will learn how to design minimum viable products (MVP), sustainable business ideas, how to develop a basic non-extractive business model, and assess the social and environmental impact of their projects.
- The program also strengthens practical skills in teamwork, creative problem solving, and communicating a business vision to partners and mentors.
- Working closely with mentors and other participants, attendees will refine their entrepreneurial ideas and develop concrete project proposals.
- By the end of the program, participants will be equipped with the tools, mindset, and networks needed to build businesses that generate value for people, communities, and the environment rather than extracting it.
How it looked last year
Franjina ekonomija Hrvatska 
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