BlastBeat Education UK is a social enterprise whose mission is to provide a self sustaining organization that can support and grow an International framework for youth community building, social entrepreneurship, creativity and learning whereby young people can, through their own decisions and actions, learn the basics of community social interaction, teamwork, creative, and business skills both on and offline.

BlastBeat utilizes music and multimedia to create a world of empowered entrepreneurial youth working for positive social change.

The Blastbeat mission is threefold:

• Nurture young entrepreneurial and new musical talent.
• Educate and empower young people.
• Inspire young people to be more socially conscious.

 
Find out more about BlastBeat at www.blastbeat.org.

– a social entrepreneurship competition for young leaders

Hjärna.Hjärta.Cash. is an intense idea competition for teams of young leaders, whom during 48 amazingly exciting and challenging hours develop the sharpest society changing business ideas. As the Swedish name suggests, the challenge unites Brain (Hjärna), Heart (Hjärta) and Cash; a union of intelligent ideas, social responsibility and cash – everything you need to change the world!

The goal of the ideas that are developed is to generate more job opportunities for young people and to be socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. Through out the competition all the teams will be coached by experts from different fields such as businessdevelopment, marketing, sustainability and digital media.

The winner gets Brain, Heart and Cash!

The winning team gets:

- 10 000 SEK to start realizing their idea;
- a mentor who supports the team in the working process after the competition;
- the great honor of presenting their idea during the international conference Rework the World in Leksand, Sweden, June 2nd to 5th, 2010. Rework the world gathers 2000 entrepreneurs, change agents and global leaders within politics, civil society and business from more than 100 countries!

The total value of the prize is more than 100 000 SEK. (Approx. 10 000 EUR).

Date and place
1 pm, May 7th to 5 pm May 9th, 2010, Brewhouse in Gothenburg.

Registration
You can register both as a group and as an individual. The group can represent an informal group av people, an organization or an education. If you sign up indiviually we will create a group for you together with other participants that signed up individually.

Register your participation now at www.hjarnahjartacash.se!

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Det nystartade svenska nätverket Cradle Net arrangerar stort C2C-event 29 april

Ur pressmeddelandet:

Kan du tänka dig en värld där allt du gör och konsumerar ger positiva ekologiska fotavtryck?
En värld utan avfall?
Cradle to Cradle gör den världen möjlig.

Den Nya Eko-industriella Revolutionen börjar torsdagen den 29 april kl 18.00 på Konstfack. Då får vi för första gången i Sverige höra den världsberömde tyske kemiprofessorn Michael Braungart, av Time Magazine utnämnd till ”Planetens hjälte”, berätta om det banbrytande konceptet Cradle to Cradle.

Cradle to Cradle (C2C) är en ny men självklar tanke; att förvandla avfall till näring i eviga kretslopp. I naturen existerar inget avfall – varför ska vi människor vara sämre?

Några exempel på C2C-produkter är glasspapper som smälter i rumstemperatur, bryts ner biologiskt och innehåller växtfrön. En fabrik som drivs av förnybar energi och som släpper ut renare vatten och luft än vad som tas in. Blöjor som du kan lägga i komposten och som kan bli biogas.

Under kvällen visar klädskaparen Matilda Wendelboe m. fl. upp världens första Cradle to Cradle-kollektion – kläder som du kan slänga i skogen eller ge tillbaka och få ut nya efter användning.

Dessutom finns möjlighet att delta i workshops med kreatörer, entreprenörer och organisationer som alla strävar mot nya lösningar där Waste = Food.

Tid: 29/4, kl 18-22
Plats: Konstfack, Stockholm
Begränsat antal platser!

För mer information och hur du anmäler dig till eventet, besök cradlenet.se

GlobalFOCUS is a global non-profit foundation dedicated to reducing the world’s carbon dependency and building a better, more sustainable tomorrow. They do this by running and supporting projects (40 to date) that, in a variety of ways, reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Based in Sweden, the organization was started by four graduate students from Uppsala University in 2007, and has been funded by the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF). Today it has offices in Sweden and China, supported by researchers and project managers from all corners of the globe.

Among its many projects, GlobalFOCUS’s work in the cleantech sector and in China is particularly noteworthy. Released in 2008, the much-lauded 12 Climate Entrepreneurs (12CE) Report, for example, has attracted significant media attention and has been noted as an important source behind the inclusion of climate innovation in the Swedish 2009 national budget. Similarly, GlobalFOCUS’s office in China has hosted a series of popular competitions among Chinese youth on climate change and environment issues. Currently, a GlobalFOCUS Center is being set up in China’s “Solar Valley,” the sustainable city currently being built outside Dezhou by one of the most dynamic and interesting Chinese cleantech innovators, Himin Solar Energy’s Huang Ming.

Let us present Evans Githinji, the Kenyan school teacher and entrepreneur that in less than a year managed to create a business employing 24 people. And the business idea? To produce fences and house beams out of used plastic bags. The plastic is collected by a small army of people and for each kilo of plastic, the collector receives 1 SEK.

To read the full article about Evans and the Green Africa factory (only in Swedish), published in Sydsvenskan on April 4, follow the direct link below.

http://www.sydsvenskan.se/varlden/article643859/Hus-av-plastpasar-skapar-ett-gront-Afrika.html

Tom Suddes is the founder of For Impact /The Suddes Group, a consultant movement that raises money with the aim to consult, train and transform nonprofits. Below he gives his advice on how to be a social entrepreneur. Let yourself get inspired but above all, get started!  

SE Forum is happy to announce that the business plan competition Venture Cup Väst (the regional branch representing the west of Sweden) have launched a prize for Social Entrepreneurs.

Venture Cup Väst has received over 400 business plans to the 2010 competition. The objective is to stimulate entrepreneurship and to increase the founding of new companies in the west of Sweden.

Together with workshops and lectures on Social Entrepreneurship, the Prize sheds light on alternative business ideas and reaches a broad target of students and entrepreneurs. 

SE Forum jury representative is the long time SE Forum member Samira Aissi.

The winner will be presented at a prize ceremony in Gothenburg on April the 29th.

Special Feature on Social Entrepreneurship in McKinsey Quarterly