2nd Public Lecture in Social Enterprise and Social Innovation: Felix Oldenburg, Ashoka

Radar for change: Stories of social entrepreneurs transforming industries Tuesday 14.10.2014 19.00-20.30 Venue: The Impactory
29 bd G-D Charlotte, L-1331 Luxembourg

See it coming? The next innovation to impact your market may come from an unexpected angle. When Wikipedia rendered the three hundred year old encyclopaedia business obsolete, few industry leaders would have expected the change to come from regular people writing their own articles, empowered by the idea of a social entrepreneur named Jimmy Wales in Florida.
Easy to see after the fact. Harder to see in the process. A few years ago, car makers snickered about the notion of consumers sharing a Toyota rather than buying a Mercedes. Again, social entrepreneurs pioneered the idea, in neighbourhood groups across Europe, and over two decades before it became a head scratcher for the industry.
Social Entrepreneurs today are at the heart of accelerated innovation, shaping markets but also public policies and a fast growing citizen sector. From perspective of the largest global network of social entrepreneurs, a fascinating radar for change emerges, with implications for everyone who wants to be where change happens.

Felix Oldenburg serves as Europe Leader and Director Germany for Ashoka, the world's first and foremost association of leading social entrepreneurs, with 3,000 Ashoka Fellows in 70 countries. Ashoka systematically selects social innovators with pot social impact, and supports them financially and with a network of business entrepreneurs.

5th Guest Lecture of The Master in Geography and Spatial Planning

Public Lecture Series -- Social innovation for sustainable transition: The role of social enterprises (Room BS 1.03)

Tuesday 07.10.2014 19.00-20.30
Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BS 1.03

Public Lecture by Dr. Benjamin Huybrechts, University of Liège

The public lecture will first explore the notions of social innovation and social enterprise and examine how these concepts relate to each other. We will then examine the emergence of social enterprises as "hybrid organizations" combining logics of the state, communities and the market. The focus will be laid on the potential of social enterprises to offer innovative answers to current societal challenges. Moreover, we will look at how these innovative answers lead to the emergence of new market categories that are populated not only by social enterprises but also by mainstream businesses. The cases of fair trade and renewable energy will be used to illustrate the dynamics of these "mixed-form" markets. Finally, we will explore to what extent social enterprises, together with other actors, can contribute to a transition towards a more sustainable economic system.

Dr. Benjamin Huybrechts, Assistant Professor at HEC Management School, University of Liege (Belgium). He is the holder of the SRIW-Sowecsom Chair in Social Enterprise Management, a member of the Centre for Social Economy and belongs to several academic networks (EMES, EGOS, ISTR, Fairness, RIODD, AES, etc.). He holds a PhD in Economics and Management (University of Liege) and has been on a post-doctoral research stay at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School (University of Oxford). Besides several book chapters and a book on Fair Trade Social Enterprises (Routledge, 2012), he has published articles in the Journal of Business Ethics, the Annals of Public and Co-operative Economics, the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Journal.

All welcome!
We also invite you to consider disseminating this announcement to any one you know who may be interested.
We appreciate any one planning to attend (who is not registered as a participant to the SESI course 2014) to confirm their participation by sending an email to: sustainability@uni.lu .

For further information on getting to campus Limpertsberg, please visit: http://wwwen.uni.lu/contact/campus_limpertsberg


Schéi Gréiss - Mit freundlichen Grüßen - Meilleures salutations - With kind regards

Danielle Schwirtz-Lejeune
Secrétariat de Dr Ariane König,
Responsable pour le Développement Durable
UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG
CAMPUS LIMPERTSBERG
162a, avenue de la Faïencerie
L-1511 Luxembourg
T +352 46 66 44 6942
F +352 46 66 44 6951
danielle.schwirtz@uni.lu www.uni.lu

Luxembourg Lectures in Geography and Spatial Planning, “Border Studies“

Within the scope of the lecture series Luxembourg Lectures in Geography and Spatial Planning, the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the UL is pleased to announce the following lectures on the topic "Border Studies": 

22nd September 2014:  Prof. Dr. Dorte Andersen Jagetic
Bordering and multiplicity: A conversation on the call in border studies for new critical approaches  
17h30 on Campus Walferdange, Building X, Room 0.34. 

6th October 2014: Prof. Dr. Martin van der Velde
Significant European Borders! Integration and mobility across borders   
17h30 on Campus Walferdange, Building X, Room 0.34. 

3rd November 2014: Dr. Cathal McCall 
The EU and Peace Building: The Cross-Border Dimension 
17h30 Campus Walferdange, Building X, Room 0.34. 


Note: Unfortunately, Dr. Bettina Bruns’ lecture, "Smuggling and research: Participatory observation at the Polish-Russian border ", originally scheduled for 20th October 2014, had to be canceled at short notice.

Light refreshments will be served following the lectures and discussions.

With the help of the UL Media Center, all lectures will be broadcast live online in order to allow students and other members of the partner universities in Kaiserslautern, Lorraine, Liège, Saarbrücken and Trier, as well as other interested parties, to follow the lecture series.
If you would like to have access to the live streaming, please contact Kristina Hondrila.

For general information about the lecture series, please contact Prof. Dr. BirteNienaber.

Please register for each respective lecture via the following link:

http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/Geography_Spatial_Planning/

This lecture series is further supported by the "University of the Greater Region - UniGR".

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