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Center for Social Impact

We Empower Agents of Social Change in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

STEPuP project

Strengthening innovative social entrepreneurship practices for disruptive business settings in Thailand and Myanmar

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The STEPuP Project

Aims to modernize existing social entrepreneurship practices and promote innovation in Thai & Burmese HEIs by integrating advanced learning tools for the creation of disruptive business ideas into existing academic structures, while strengthening the university-business collaboration through participatory schemes on a local and regional level

Aims

to strengthen teaching staff capacities and student skill sets
to create, equip and put in operation the Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hubs
to enhance the cooperation HE-Enterprise and students learning experience by developing Innovative Social Entrepreneurship Case studies
to extend networks in social entrepreneurship innovation in national & international HE contexts

Key Outcomes

Status-quo and GAP analysis including the good practice catalogue EU (M4-5)

4 trainings (12 staff) on the topics of SE and disruptive business strategies (M13)

2 multiplier events (internal training) with at least 30 staff trained (M14)

Implementation and operation of SEKH (M14-M19)

Official integration of SEKH in the university structure (2 academic staff and 5 students) (M12-M20)
10 vocational trainings implemented with the external target groups
1 student case challenge with a minimum of 5 cases developed on social entrepreneurship (M20-M29)
1 international conference organized on innovative social entrepreneurship practices (M34) including a joint publication (M32)