In this course a team of master students will help you to start, improve, or boost your social impact.

This challenge deals with the question of how entrepreneurial activity can be a vehicle for creating a better world, an idea often described under the umbrella term “social entrepreneurship”.

✅ Key features of the challenge

• Students per team: 4 students
• Course: Social Entrepreneurship
• Programme: Master Entrepreneurship
• No. of hours spent per team: 67 hours (approximately 10 hours per week for 7 weeks)
• Deliverables: Presentation and report (in the form of slides) with recommendations
• Company time investment: Your time involvement is 8-12 hours in total (e.g. weekly (short) meetings, interviews, final presentation, etc.)
• Free of charge

📑 Main deliverable and challenge examples

The main deliverable is a to-the-point advisory report (mainly in the form of slides) and a presentation. The student teams can work on challenges like, but not limited to, the following:

• Experiment with validity of new social/sustainable product and service offerings in specific markets.
• Develop a communications and marketing strategy for our new social/sustainable product or service.
• Investigate options for sustainable and social supply chains for a new product.
• Identify valuable partnerships with NGOs, corporations, local government, etc. to increase our social impact.

🏢 Requirement for participating companies/organisations

• Any company having a social/sustainable objective that is core to its business model.
• At least two founders/employees working in the company.
• In business for at least 6 months.
• We encourage a wide variety of companies to apply and do not limit ourselves to a specific industry or sector.
• Around 8-12 hours for the contact person (e.g., joining the (online) kick-off and final presentations, providing information, and answering questions).
• Spending more time is fine of course.

📨 How to apply

You can submit the challenge directly through the website. Provide a title that summarises the challenge. Subsequently, briefly elaborate on your challenge. See link for a template you could use: https://link.masterchallenge.me/challenge-template or use the challenge generator: https://masterchallenge.me/challenge-generator

🗓 Planning

• September 30: Deadline for submitting your challenge
• October 15 (or sooner): Receiving message if your challenge is approved by the lecturer
• October 31: Teams rank the challenges including a brief motivation why they want to solve this challenge. The companies receive an overview of the teams that have chosen their challenge.
• November 5: The companies rank the teams that want to solve their challenge.
• November 6: Our matching algorithm will create perfect matches. Matches are shared with the teams and companies.
• November 10-14: Kick-off meeting with the teams
• December (week 50): Final presentations in time slots of 20 minutes (after you are matched to a team, we will schedule the time slots)

Questions? Want to discuss your challenge before submitting one? Feel free to schedule a call 👉 here.