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OUR VISION :
« Social entrepreneurship is an effective and responsible way of tackling societal needs which neither public services nor market logic can fully satisfy. Social entrepreneurship works for the benefit of individuals and the common good, in the context of sustainable development, in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Social entrepreneurs drive innovation and have a positive impact on public authorities and private profit-based organisations, enabling them to generate systemic change. »
OUR MISSION: :
To contribute, through training, research and social innovation experimentation, to the development of social entrepreneurship, its professionalization and the optimisation of its impact.
OUR OBJECTIVES:
- To train tomorrow’s social entrepreneurs and social and solidarity economy managers through Graduate training and continuous professional development programmes.
- To create and distribute knowledge on Social Entrepreneurship and its impact.
- To create teaching tools and materials to promote professionalism in the sector.
- To support social entrepreneurs, through sharing skills, logistics and financing.
- To support our partners’ research in finding an optimal balance between the social and economic dimensions of their activities.
- To experiment with new responses to social issues in our capacity as a social innovation laboratory.
OUR COMMITMENTS:
- To experiment on a local level before extending our activities.
- To systematically evaluate the effectiveness and social impact of our actions.
- To research into synergies between public actors, private profit-making companies and social entrepreneurs.
- To give feedback to our stakeholders.
- To place students at the heart of our activities, involving them in our research.
- To adhere to high standards of rigour and professionalism.
- To consider Social Entrepreneurship as a bridge between individuals and communities.
- To clarify project practice through theoretical models and to enrich theory with practice.
- To combine international and local aspects of projects.
A scientific council is currently being formed.
