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Elevate Social Entrepreneurship, Germany & Uganda

Infinity Mannheim e.V. is a social entrepreneurship platform founded by students, aiming to promote awareness for sustainability among younger generations - the future thinkers, makers, and leaders.

30.06.2017
Elevate Social Entrepreneurship
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Project name: Elevate Social Entrepreneurship

Project location: Germany and Uganda

Website: http://infinity-mannheim.de

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/infinitymannheim.de/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infinity_mannheim/

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Project description:

Infinity Mannheim e.V. is a social entrepreneurship platform founded by students, aiming to promote awareness for sustainability among younger generations - the future thinkers, makers, and leaders.
We do this through two means: First, we create an environment that fosters our personal and professional development, which secondly enables us to develop business models that allow the integration of sustainability into a modern everyday life.
Our impact grows out of three pillars: Learn, Develop, Apply

We learn from experienced professionals in economy, politics and society through speeches and panel discussions. We develop new solutions to pressing challenges through workshops in which experts share their experience, wisdom and advice. We apply the knowledge acquired in the lectures or workshops to implement projects that create a sustainable impact through the means of entrepreneurship.

Since we have founded Infinity Mannheim e.V. two years ago, we have organized 15 lectures, 16 workshops and launched seven projects in Germany and Uganda. We already tackled issues like: sustainable food production, wealth without growth, digital transformation, crowdfunding, rethinking consumption, sustainability strategy, sharing economy, fair shea butter, social business, fair fashion, empowering women in business.

Most importantly we have convinced 180 young people to engage in solving global problems locally, reached over 50,000 people and helped organizations reduce plentiful resources. We come from every walk of life and societal spectrum. We’re students, entrepreneurs, politicians, activists, artists, and scientists.

Our next step is to increase the scale of our impact: Within the next year, we will scale our initiative to at least five more universities in Germany.

Besides gathering knowhow and subsequently building up our network, we will found an umbrella association as a coordinating head unit for our organization. We are convinced that our modern approach based on personal development, social entrepreneurship and the communication of a grand, joint vision unleashes strong team spirit and great potential for the sake of a sustainable future. Let’s take this to the next level and elevate social entrepreneurship in Germany!

Goal and purpose of the project:

Climate change, resource scarcity, social inequalities: Our planet faces serious challenges which threaten a sustainable future for it’s habitants. In developed countries like Germany, technical capabilities are highly advanced and are being continuously improved thanks to a strong economy. Thus we believe that the biggest barrier to a sustainable future in Germany is taking the step from sole awareness to actually adopting good habits which are good for themselves and the planet: Our purpose is to spread enthusiasm towards ecological and environmental topics among the younger generation and make it easy for everyone to engage in conscious consumption and lead towards a sustained economy. We aim to do so by introducing solutions that allow integrating sustainability into a modern lifestyle. Furthermore, by initializing and realizing projects fueled by the spirit of social entrepreneurship and based on self-sustaining business models, we ensure long-term financial independence and a long-lasting positive impact.

Elevate Social Entrepreneurship
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Motivation of the applicant / applicant team:

Together we believe in a world where we can empower each other to shape the globe for the better. We are motivated by the inherent joy of advancing: we strive to advance personally and professionally, together we advance as a team and are ultimately capable of implementing projects that advance a meaningful purpose. Even if our approach is based on the mutually enabling relationship between sustainability and business, the study backgrounds of our team is as diverse as the idea of sustainability itself.

Use of prize money:

With the support of #youforG20, we can spread our approach, spirit and impact to five more universities in Germany within the next year. The foundation of additional regional groups and a coordinating umbrella association as head unit requires a considerable amount of resources, namely funds, for: a campaign to acquire founders for regional groups, travel expenses for on-boarding workshops, set-up of an online network for cross-regional exchange and knowledge sharing, foundation of an alumni association and equipment for a centrally located coordination office.