Online Course Social Entrepreneurship for Local Change

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This page provides an overview on learning and teaching resources used in the online course Social Entrepreneurship for Local Change.

Phase A: Identifying Challenges and Setting Goals

During this phase the students critically reflect their local context and identify challenges (problems, shortcomings and change potential). They select one challenge and analyse the cause-effect relationships of this challenge from multiple perspectives. They actively include input from students of other disciplines to get a more profound understanding of the situation.

A.1 Landscape as the Arena of Challenges

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A.2 Defining the Social Enterprise 1

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A.3 Defining the Social Enterprise 2

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  • Lecture Video by Dr Roger Evans, EMU, Estonia: Defining the Social Enterprise II
  • Social Enterprise Video by Kwabena Danso, Chief Executive Officer, Booomers International Ltd: Boomers
  • Session-Interview moderated by Daan van der Linde, VHL Larenstein with social entrepreneur Dick van Leeuwen, social entrepreneur from the Netherlands: De Zorgimkerij

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A.4 Group Presentations: Local Challenges

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Phase B: Designing Ideas

Students develop an initial idea of how the challenge could be addressed by entrepreneurial means. They design a possibly viable business model and analyse its feasibility in relation to the local context.

B.1 Design Thinking and Social Entrepreneurship Business Models I

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B.2 Social Entrepreneurship Business Models II

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B.3 Group Presentations: Case Study Field Reserach

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Phase C: Designing the Business Model

Students draw up a business plan which includes financing and marketing models.

C.1 The Business Plan

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C.2 Financing models

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C.3 Financing models Tutoring Session

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C.4 Marketing strategies

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Phase D: Revision and Evaluation

Students draw up an evaluation scheme in order to assess the social/environmental impact of the business idea.

D.1 Revision and Evaluation

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D.2 Tutoring session

Tutors reflect with their assigned team on the team's business idea respective their business idea presentation. Based on the current state of the team the tutor makes use of existing resources.

D.3 Final presentation

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