The Second International Festival of Social Entrepreneurship

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Description

The Second Festival of Social Entrepreneurship is organized among the Universities all over the world in order to share best practices of social entrepreneurship used in Global Universities. The Festival is also designed to provide university students with opportunities to practice and to develop the skills necessary for social enterprise and community projects in partnership with nonprofit organizations and businesses.

The event also provides students with the tools necessary for managing and creating social enterprises through the acceleration program designed to be both instructive and practice-oriented.

26 teams from 6 countries: Russia, USA, Switzerland, India, Ireland and Cameroon take part in the Festival 2016. During the Festival every team have coworking with professionals of social entrepreneurship. For defining 5 winners participants present their projects to the experts on 14th December.

Experts of education program and participants take part in culture program including excursion around ITMO University and St. Petersburg.

The schedule of the Festival can be found here.

Organizers

ITMO University

University of California, Los Angeles

Contacts

e-mail: socproject@corp.ifmo.ru