Join like-minded people to tackle the world’s most complex and urgent problems.
Our Social Entrepreneurship Academy is a six-week program designed to help our students, staff and recent graduates build a social enterprise.?
Workshops will include panel discussions with social entrepreneurs and draw on UQ expertise on the latest social entrepreneurship tools and methodologies to foster real-world experience. The program will support you to transform your ideas into sustainable action.
Applications for the Semester 1 program have closed.
Over six weeks, you will attend weekly workshops on how to develop?a sustainable project that addresses a social or environmental need.
Sessions will also include contact with the local social entrepreneurship ecosystem and first-hand recounts of some of the challenges social entrepreneurs face.
Self-paced schedule
This program is for students, staff and alumni from any faculty?with?an interest in creating?organisations that:
- meet a community need, i.e.: housing, education,?food security or economic opportunity for marginalised groups
- create a business model to be both the ends and means of a social goal
- demonstrate better ways of doing business
- generate income for another charitable or community purposes.
Don’t have an idea?
We can match you with a team based on your skill sets and interests. You’ll be provided with hands-on training and mentoring to test and prototype a social enterprise idea.
Applications are currently closed and will reopen in July.?
Social Enterprise Semester Two
Applications open 15 July 2020
Program commences Wednesday 19?August 2020 from 12-2pm
?This is a more advanced version of our Social Enterprise Explorers program. The introductory program?covers the fundamentals of social enterpreneurship.?