Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

What exactly is “social entrepreneurship”? Why do social enterprises provide solutions to social and environmental challenges that traditional business models and NGOs cannot address? How do society and the economy change when entrepreneurial thinking combines social impact and economic viability?

In this block seminar, we will look at the theories, models, principles and forms of financing of social entrepreneurship. And we will get into action: What challenges excite you to develop entrepreneurial ideas? We will test out the untapped potential in your own specialist discipline and how it could be transformed into meaningful “products” using your existing resources: Practically tangible and with team and entrepreneurial spirit. Central elements are the development of a theory of change and the first steps in the conception of a product or service that creates social added value.

Day 1: Fundamentals and theories of social entrepreneurship, practising entrepreneurial thinking, understanding innovation, theory of change
Intermediate phase: self-organized project work for a social business idea and concept outline
Day 2: Practical examples of successful social enterprises, approaches for product and business model development for own ideas, presentation of results

Workload for ECTS:

2 ECTS: active participation in the two seminar days, self-organized project work and concept outline

3 ECTS: active participation in the two seminar days, self-organized project work and concept sketch, pitch, short reflection report

Lecturer:

Paul Kupfer, pioneer of social entrepreneurship, has sold over 1.7 million sustainable drinking bottles and promoted drinking water projects as co-founder of soulbottles. In the company, the founders also pursued an alternative approach to corporate management and were early adopters of the concepts of non-violent communication, holacracy and responsible ownership.

After completing his MBA at MIT and founding the soulincubator, he now shares his experience and practical insights from Europe and Africa as a project manager at seecon/cewas.