SCE Annual Report 2014/15

Network
4Entrepreneurship
The entrepreneurship centres at LMU Munich, the
Technical University of Munich and the University of the
Bundeswehr have joined forces with the SCE to further
promote entrepreneurial thinking among students and
enhance the Munich region's capacity for innovation.
This intensive networking between the centres has
given the city of Munich and the greater Munich area
the benefit of a dense and continually expanding regional
and international entrepreneurship network rich
in experience and resources. Once a year, under the
joint 4Entrepreneurship umbrella, the four centres work
together to host the Global Entrepreneurship Summer
School (GESS), and they regularly hold “speed pitch”
events with and for start-ups, along with other events.
In 2010, 4Entrepreneurship initiated the Social Entrepreneurship
Akademie.
Global Entrepreneurship
Summer School
Social Entrepreneurship Akademie
The Social Entrepreneurship Akademie (SEA) was established
in 2010 as a networking organisation serving
The Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (GESS)
is an annual event organised by 4Entrepreneurship
Munich’s four universities. The Academy specifically
and the Social Entrepreneurship Academy, an event
supports social start-up projects, currently offers a
to which more than 1,000 international students apply
certificate programme for students, and is advancing
every year. Under the auspices of Ilse Aigner, the Bavarian
Minister of the Economy, thirty-five highly-qual-
to firmly root social entrepreneurship in our society.
the development of a wide network whose purpose is
ified participants came to the sixth GESS from far and
The support programme “Act for Impact” for (aspiring)
social entrepreneurs in the fields of education and
wide: from Munich, Amsterdam and Latvia, and from
as far away as Bangladesh, Brazil and Uganda. The
integration has been scheduled every year since 2012
GESS took place under the motto “WASTE – 1 Billion
in cooperation with the foundation Vodafone Stiftung
Euro Projects to Foster Societal Change”. Ideas were
Deutschland and the Social Entrepreneurship Akasought
as to how to gain the upper hand in dealing with
demie.Prizes have been awarded for outstanding ideas
the worldwide problems of refuse and wasted food. The
and social start-ups that have made a contribution to
teams received support from experienced coaches and
social mobility in Germany. The most innovative educational
start-ups were represented at the final event in
were also advised by German social start-ups. They
Munich on 11 June 2015, where the ideas behind them
presented their ideas in the concluding event before
were presented before a broad audience and a distinguished
jury.
a distinguished jury and 200 guests. The team Smart-
Link emerged as the winner with its business idea of a
Hotel Utopia emerged as the winner. The Hotel was
commodities market that would enable small farmers in
conceived as a meeting place in Berlin where refugees
rural areas of developing countries to sell their products
at a fair price.
might find work or educational opportunities, and to
promote a paradigm shift in how refugees are perceived.
www.globalsummerschool.org
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Since 2011, the SEA has been offering private persons
an extracurricular or extra-occupational one- to twoyear
training programme leading to the “Social Innovation”
certificate (ZGI).
The certificate programme is designed to impart knowledge
specific to social entrepreneurship. Some 25 students
and novice professionals make up one class; the
fifth one started in October 2015. The SEA also offers
workshops and en-bloc seminars devoted to a range of
topics such as social innovation, social entrepreneurship
and sustainable management and hosts the Global
Entrepreneurship Summer School (GESS).
Sponsors of the SEA include Falk F. Strascheg and
Bernd Wendeln, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt, Bon-
Venture, Vodafone Stiftung and Stifterverband der
Deutschen Wissenschaft. For additional information
please visit www.seakademie.de.