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Social Entrepreneurship

Course number

KTH: ME2804, SSE: 8093, KI: n/a, KFK: n/a, SU: FE6607

Schedule

Spring 2012
Spring 2013

Dates

Spring 2012: 10 April - 17 May
Spring 2013: 2 April - 23 May

Structure

The course runs after 5 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays in 2-3 hour sessions

Worth: 7.5 ECTS-credits

Taught at

Stockholm University

Swedish course name

Socialt entreprenörskap

Entrepreneurship can be really tricky. Social entrepreneurship even more so. In this course we challenge you to use the methods of entrepreneurship to tackle and solve the wicked problems of the world.

This course is created for you with a general interest in entrepreneurship, the social impact of enterprise, and/or the non-profit/NGO sectors. It especially complements the SSES core courses in defining the “social return-on-investment” of entrepreneurial ventures, and by elaborating on how to develop a corporate social responsibility (CSR) program.

During the course you will be supported and coached in your work on developing a social entrepreneurial venture of your own, hopefully solving several wicked problems.

Intended learning outcomes

After this course you should be able to:

  • explain and discuss the concepts of social entrepreneurship, the social impact of the enterprise, and/or the non-profit/NGO sector and its history
  • explain the concept and history of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
  • explain the concept of Social Return-on-Investment
  • calculate the Social Return-of-Investment of a business plan or a social venture development plan
  • identify usage of basic and advanced models of Public Relations planning and execution among social ventures
  • within a social venture execute basic models of Public Relations planning and execution
  • develop advanced not-for-profit business models.

Structure

In order for you as a student to be able to take SSES courses they are all scheduled after your daily classes (or workday), with some margin time to ensure you can commute to campus, pick up a coffee and arrive on time.

This course runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays in two to three hour sessions for some seven weeks, but for a detailed timing check out the schedule in the box to the right. Teaching will incorporate lectures, debates, and exercises, as well as presentation from leaders in the field.
 

Assessment

Not yet decided.

Teacher(s)

Sytse Strijbos

Course Director

Professor, International Institute for Development and Ethics (Europe) Maarssen, The Netherlands
strijboss@iide-online.org

Sytse Strijbos is the founder of the International Institute for Development and Ethics that has been established in 2004 as an independent legal entity with a branch in South Africa and Europe. Currently he is the chairperson of the IIDE in Europe. Previously, he taught at the Philosophy Faculty of VU University Amsterdam and as a special professor at North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa. Recently he published and co-edited From Technology Transfer to Intercultural Development: Understanding Technology and Development in a Globalising World (2011).

Deidré van Rooyen

Guest Faculty

Researcher/ Lecturer, Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa
griesd@ufs.ac.za 

Deidré van Rooyen currently works as a researcher/ lecturer for the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa). Her duties entail the management of research projects in terms of preparing proposals, literature reviews, study instruments, fieldwork, data analysis, writing reports and disseminating information. She also teaches Local Economic Development in the Masters Programme in Development Studies.  Prior to this permanent position, she acted as a junior lecturer and facilitator in the Department of Sociology. She completed her Masters Degree in Gender Studies and is currently busy with her PhD in Development Studies (Civic culture and local economic development in a small town). She has authored, co-authored and compiled more than 35 research reports and some 14 peer- reviewed papers as conference papers, academic journal articles or chapters in books. Her specialisation fields of research are Social Entrepreneurship (SE) as well as Local Economic Development (LED) in small towns.

Willem Ellis

Guest Faculty

Executive Officer, International Institute for Development and Ethics (Africa)
Bloemfontein, South Africa
elliswf@ufs.ac.za 

Willem Ellis is the executive officer of the International Institute for Development and Ethics (IIDE) in Africa. He is a research associate at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) at the University of the Free State (UFS) and also lectures in a variety of programmes at the University of the Free State – mostly subjects related to conflict transformation and development. He has a law degree and an MA in Governance and Political Transformation.

Willem has over 15 years experience in community interventions and the strengthening of Third Sector institutions and has been responsible for compilation of constitutions and policies in this regard for the UFS and a variety of NPOs. He is currently focusing on the peculiar dynamics of NPOs and social entrepreneurship and the strengthening of the Third Sector through exposure to entrepreneurial interventions. He serves on the board of trustees of Lebone Village, a care centre aimed at improving the lives of adults and children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, where he propagates social entrepreneurship as the way to go in reaching social goals.