The Regional Centre of Expertise on Sustainable Development (RCE Vienna, headed by co-manager at STaR Christian Rammel) has recently co-initiated IN SITU: an EU project, which brings together the fields of Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in order to tackle some of today’s urgent social challenges. The project aims to change the narrative of what it means to be a “social entrepreneur” and who gets to be one, by offering an opportunity for socioeconomically disadvantaged youth and long-term-unemployed adults – groups that are all too often perceived as passive receivers of social innovations – to become solution co-creators.

Another key aim is to increase the labor market access for these untraditional groups of Social Innovators. IN SITU team seeks to achieve this through a series of training and workshops, offered free of cost, in which participants will get a chance to discover the potential of their ideas, expand their creative social thinking as well as business-planning skills, and develop their own social projects.

The first trainings are scheduled for September 2020, in 6 different participating EU countries: Austria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Slovakia. They are especially tailored for organizations that work with NEETs (Not in Education, Not in Training) and (young) women.

Our IN SITU VIENNA mission is

• to foster positive societal impact and make Social Entrepreneurship more inclusive by creating spaces of inspiration and empowerment where every citizen – disregarding their background – is seen as a co-creator, rather than target, of social innovation.

Interested to learn more about IN SITU?

Contact Julia Rusin (Julia.rusin@wu.ac.at)