Social (Business) Innovations

Free online courses 
Yooweedoo, a plattform provided by the University of Kiel, offers free courses on themes like how to start a social project, crowdfunding and legal aspects for social entrepreneurs. The courses in German are available for everyone, who registers on the plattform:
https://www.yooweedoo.org/de/kurse



Social Business University
Grameen University is a university in Bangladesh, which has a focus on a global sustainable development:

https://grameenu.ac



Private lessons for deprived pupils
Chancenwerk in Germany cooperates with schools in building up a system of learning cascades: Pupils receive private lessons from students (group learning). These pupils pay back by teaching younger pupils.
https://chancenwerk.de/



Lessons from experts
German "life teach us" developed an app similar to a dating app, where experts can act as "supply teachers" in schools teaching children sth about their expertise (i.e. a communcations manager teaches about artificial intelligence). The experts can register on the app and they can work some hours a week on a voluntary basis, when schools have vacant hours:
http://https://www.lifeteachus.org





Social entrepreneurship in schools
"Your Capabilities" offers education to pupils and students with a focus on handicapped people (Germany):
https://yourcaps.de



Education for Refugee Children
Thaki collects old laptops, donates them to schools and has developed digital soltions (platforms, app) to support refugee children in terms of education:
https://thaki.org



Entrepreneurship education via Whatsapp
Brazil company Artemisia provides lessons via Whatsapp messages:
https://www.lys.academy/jornadaempreendedora



University
A university can increase its social impact by founding a Yunus Social Business Centre (over 100 worldwide):
https://socialbusinesspedia.com/ysbc



Nursing College in Bangladesh
Grameen Caledonian is a joint venture of Grameen Healthcare and the Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. Adelphi University in NY, USA, is a cooperating partner, too. Young Bangladeshi people are trained as nurses and support the healthcare sector in Bangladesh.
https://gccn.ac.bd





Education of ecoentrepreneurs in Africa and India
The Green Colleges offer an education up to six month in the fields of sustainable farming, solar lighting, fishery and others:
https://welthungerhilfeindia.org/initiative/green-colleges-initiative/





Employment in Ghana
Mybamboo is a German company building bikes from bamboo imported from Ghana and using parts of the profits for education projects:
https://www.my-boo.de