As part of his secondment to FAB-MOVE coordinator Muenster University, Ross Ahlfeld from the Invercylde Community Development Trust in Scotland gave an exciting talk on the aims, principles and functioning of his institution. This created an inspiring opportunity to bring together researchers from the university and the practitioner’s point of view. Thus, the comparison of the social enterprise environment in Scotland and Germany was one of the key aspects in the subsequent discussion. Ross Ahlfeld will stay in Germany until September. He has hitherto visited several social enterprises and other projects in the region of North Rine-Westphalia.