Social Entrepreneurship: People, Profit and the Planet
July 11 – August 2, 2025
Are you driven to address global issues through citizen-led solutions and social responsibility? Social Entrepreneurship explores how business thinking can be harnessed to tackle global challenges like poverty, environmental degradation, and human rights abuses. This course emphasizes the role of social responsibility in business, showing how the "three Ps"—people, profit, and the planet—can be balanced to create transformational changes.
Through our hands-on experiential learning, you'll engage with local social enterprises and innovators, gaining insights into real-world projects that combine economic activity and social good. You'll leave inspired and equipped to develop your own project plan that drives impactful and responsible change.
What you’ll gain:
- Essential knowledge about social entrepreneurship and its capacity for making transformational change when applied to complex problems such as sustainability and poverty;
- In-depth understanding of the complex relationship between social problems and systemic challenges that perpetuate these problems;
- Capacity to a devise and implement a social action plan through project-based learning opportunities.
The course is right for you if:
- You are eager to link business strategies with social responsibility to address global challenges;
- You want to make a difference through innovative solutions that balance profit-making with social impact and sustainability;
- You’re ready to work with like-minded peers focusing on social action project plans.
What will I be able to do after the course?
- Develop and implement impactful social action projects that address global challenges;
- Apply strategies for balancing people, profit, and the planet in the design of sustainable social ventures;
- Describe and assess the social and environmental conditions for sustainable social venture.