This course focuses on experiential learning, i.e. students developing, testing and refining social and sustainable business ideas addressing pivotal societal challenges. They are supervised and mentored by faculty members.

• Understand language and core theoretical concepts of social and sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Understand the nature of social and sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship as a learning journey, and ways to manage the process.
• Understand key tools, approaches and resources available for and needed by innovators and entrepreneurs.
• Gain insights into their personal fit with social and sustainable entrepreneurship.
• Develop or work on an idea for a social and sustainable enterprise far enough to implement it.

Students must attend onsite 100% of the scheduled sessions.

• On-site learning through input, discussions, group-work
• Individual research and reflection assignments
• Continuous group work on self-selected social entrepreneurship ideas or business projects using various qualitative research methods, observation and field experiments
• Coaching sessions with faculty
• Presentation and discussion of findings with peers, faculty and experts
• Guest lectures
• Optional: sessions on specific entrepreneurial skills or innovation capabilities

• Individual pre-course and reflection assignment 20%
• Individual participation and contributions 20%
• Course assignments 30%
• Final presentation 15%
• Final hand-in 15%

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