Study Guide

Objective

The students will be able to:
• Understand central concepts related to social enterprises and social entrepreneurship
• identify the possibilities for socially sustainable services and their production in the social welfare sector
• Recognize the skills, attitudes and mindset required for entrepreneurship
• Apply relevant methods and regulation for innovating and developing a sustainable business idea in the social service sector
• Understand private enterprises as possibilities for social and community work

Content

• Socially, economically and ecologically sustainable development and entrepreneurship
• Social enterprises and social entrepreneurship
• Characteristics and skills of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial mindset
• Process of business start-up; from business idea toward business plan
• Regulation of private enterprises in social service sector
• Analysing business opportunities and basics of risk assessment and risk management
• Productizing, financing, pricing and marketing business services
• Methods for innovating and developing a business idea