Assignments Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Spring 2025

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Overview and links to assignment details

The social innovation programme has four compulsory assignments and they are integrated into a learning process. All assignments require your active participation in the tutored online classes and/or on site in your community lab. In addition, critical engagement with social innovation and social entrepreneurship theories and methods is necessary. Below we give you an overview of the compulsory course deliverables. Please check the links for more details of the assignments.

Nr	Assignment	presented on	Submission	Working Mode	Assessment
1	Community Map and Theory of Change	Online team presentation and submission of PDF version	presentation during workshops and/or tutored session, submission 27.05.2025	Team product	pass/not pass
2.1	Community Innovation Field Research	Online in the plenary on 30.04.2024	29.04.2025	Team Product	Pass/not Pass
2.2	Community Innovation Field Research		27.05.2025	individual report and case study template	Grade 40%
3	Pitching your Innovation Idea	During workshop or during online exercises		Team product	Pass/not pass
4	Business Model Canvas	Online in the plenary on 27.05.2025	27.05.2025	Team or individual product	Grade 60%

Course Elements

Overview of the social innovation and social entrepreneurship programme 2025

The social innovation programme includes four integrated assignments

• Review session recordings and session slides
• Download assignment templates
• Assignment online submission

This online course aims at preparing and accompanying students who are involved in designing community-based innovation ideas. The synchronous lectures on Tuesdays will provide you with theory and methods associated with core topics such as community – what they are and how to work with them, innovation, transformation, systems thinking, design thinking, business modelling and impact evaluation, to name only the most relevant. In addition, the Tuesday sessions will provide room for digital exchange with local stakeholders and community members.

• The international online course with synchronous online sessions on Tuesdays from 16 30 – 18 00 CET and additional tutored online sessions.
• Our class meets weekly online from March 24 to May 27, 2025
• A part of the group meets Nürtingen from April 6 - 13, 2025 and another part of the group meets in Bucharest from May 5.-12., 2025

The seminar audience will divide into three groups:

1. Participants of the onsite workshops in Nürtingen and Bucharest, they will be working on this specific community context
2. Participants working online only. They will develop their own theme in groups that will be formed based on shared interests.