Social Entrepreneurship Challenge 2023
Let talented students from the Master Entrepreneurship help you to start, improve, or boost your social impact.
Description
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: 150 hours
- 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
Provide a title that summarises the challenge. Subsequently, briefly elaborate on your challenge (max 150 words). Click here for a template you could use.
🗓 Planning
- October 20 (Extended): Deadline for submitting your challenge
- October 23 (or sooner): Receiving message if your challenge is approved by the lecturer
- November 3: 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 6: The companies rank the teams that want to solve their challenge.
- November 7: Our matching algorithm will create perfect matches. Matches are shared with the teams and companies.
- November 8-10: Kick-off meeting with the teams
- December 14 or 15, 9:00am - 1:00pm: Final presentations in time slots of 20 minutes (after you are matched to a team, we will schedule the time slots)
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