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Instructors: Dr. Fabian Hattke; Janne Kalucza
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
23-37.407
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
English
Min. | Max. participants:
10 | 30
Comments/contents:
Social innovations are an opportunity to improve social needs through entrepreneurial action. Their explicit goal is to extend and strengthen civil society through a social purpose. Social innovations include both the social processes of innovation and the innovative out-puts with a social purpose.
This seminar will be held in cooperation with Enactus Hamburg, a student-led non-profit organization, who realize social innovation projects. It will provide a transfer between theory and practice as the goal of the course is to tackle a real-world problem with an elaborated idea that is feasible and has a positive impact on people, planet, and prosperity.
In addition to fundamental knowledge on topics such as social innovation and project management, the course also includes interactive workshops, e.g. on the topic of design thinking.
Together, we will address the following questions:
- What is special about social innovation and entrepreneurship?
- What kind of project management skills are needed to build a real world social start-up, which is self-sustaining and not dependent on donations or corporate co-operation?
- How are theory and praxis on social innovation connected and what can both sides learn from each other?
Learning objectives:
Students in this seminar will learn
- the theoretical basics of social innovation and social entrepreneurship
- skills in project management & design thinking
- approaches to idea development
- and how to put this knowledge into practice
- to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of transfer activities for research and praxis
Didactic concept:
In the weekly digital seminars students will receive input on relevant topics, be asked to contribute in workshops, and to develop ideas together with Enactus Hamburg.
Literature:
The literature will be announced at the start of the course.
Additional examination information:
In order to pass the course, each student must deliver a seminar paper (10-12 pages) and an oral presentation (10-12 minutes). The seminar paper constitutes 2/3 and the oral presentation 1/3 of the final grade. The seminar will be held in English.
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