Incubators 4 Change
Incubators 4 Change is a cooperation project, financed by the European program for education, training and youth Erasmus+.
Incubators 4 Change is composed of 3 European structures working with students in the field of social entrepreneurship:
The Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Center of ESSEC Business School in France.
IstasyonTEDU: TED University Center for Social Innovation of TED University in Ankara, Turkey.
Social Impact Award headquartered in Vienna, Austria. Social Impact Award is Europe’s largest community of social entrepreneurs and social innovators under 30. About 8,000+ young talents get inspired and active within Social Impact Award’s education and incubation programs in about 20 countries every year.
Our aim is to understand better and promote social innovation amongst students all over Europe and MENA. We are conducting several research projects, and we share the results on this page, and also online on Erasmus+ platform of projects’ results. Our researches provides specific insights on different topics:
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- support to women social entrepreneurs
- disability and social entrepreneurship
- link between Higher Education Institutes and social incubators
- Social Impact Assessment and Management for social Incubators.
Our resources
In the context of this project, we created different ressources, accessible to anyone interested in the social entrepreneurship topic.
These 5 different documents have different forms, and are aimed at helping professionals and students to understand more the social entrepreneurship ecosystem. It also gathers a lot of good practices to support better social entrepreneurs.
Feel free to have a look at the different documents, you can download them, and spread them in your network as much as you wish.
Overview of social enterprises incubators in Europe and MENA region: practices, operations, support to entrepreneurs.
Qualitatives & Quantitatives interviews to more than 150 incubators, and interpretation of results, to give a great overview of incubators ecosystem.
Curriculum of social entrepreneurship classes.
6 practical curriculum for anyone interested in giving classes on this topic, based on best practices from more than 110 Universities.
Best practices to support social entrepreneurs according to experts, in video.
6 videos with interviews of experts on how to support the best specific profiles of social entrepreneurs. Watch these videos if you are interested in creating a social enterprise incubator, or better your incubator’s practices.
Good practice guide on selection process for incubators.
This step by step guide is based on interviews with 5 expert incubators, and can help you select the best entrepreneurs to support within you incubation and acceleration programs.
Good practices guide : how to support social entrepreneurs beyond funding.
This document is based on interviews of social entrepreneurs and a litterature review on support practices to social entrepreneurs. if you are looking to support entrepreneurs beyond funding, this guide is meant for you !
Overview of social enterprises incubators in Europe and MENA region: practices, operations, support to entrepreneurs
Qualitatives & Quantitatives interviews to more than 150 incubators, and interpretation of results, to give a great overview of social incubators ecosystem.
Curriculum of social entrepreneurship classes
6 practical modules for instructors and other ecosystem actors based on literature and field research.
Design Approach: Methodological Approach of the Curriculum
Understanding the Fundamental Concepts and the Ecosystem
Problem Opportunity Identification and Sustainable Business Model Development
Management and Organization
Financial Management
Marketing
Social Impact Management
Merged Curriculum: All the 6 Modules in 1 File
Best practices to support social entrepreneurs according to expert, in video
6 videos with interviews of experts on how to support the best specific profiles of social entrepreneurs. Watch these videos if you are interested in creating a social enterprise incubator, or better your incubator’s practices.
Good practices guide on selection process for incubators
This step by step guide is based on interviews with 5 expert incubators, and can help you select the best entrepreneurs to support within your incubation and acceleration programs.
Good practices guide: how to support social entrepreneurs beyond funding
This document is based on interviews of social entrepreneurs and a litterature review on support practices to social entrepreneurs. If you are looking to support entrepreneurs beyond funding, this guide is meant for you !
