This presentation was prepared within framework of the training course ''Change Laboratory'' and it served as an introduction to the concept and content of the training course and a framework guiding work of group and trainers. "Change Laboratory'' is a platform where 29 young third sector representatives from Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Estonia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Sweden, Greece and Romania will carry out a collaborative learning activity by questioning current ways of thinking, analyzing and modeling social entrepreneurship ventures, and conducting thought and action experiments concerning possible changes in their communities. Main aim of this project is to promote active participation of young people and to contribute to developing the capabilities of civil society organizations in the youth field through gathering knowledge in social entrepreneurship area and through development of competencies essential for initiation of social entrepreneurship activities by non-governmental non-profit organizations. Encouraging self-initiative and developing the capability to analyze obstacles and opportunities within a social sector and to identify potential strategies to effect change are other important objectives of the project. Program is based on the experiential learning model and focuses on developing independent mind habits, entrepreneurship and leadership skills, on building understanding of creativity and innovations to meet genuine community needs and gain enhanced sense of responsibility to the communities in which we live. The first part of the course will introduce the participants to the concept of social entrepreneurship and its various applications across sectors and organizational forms. Furthermore it examines the success factors and conditions of setting up social enterprise. Through the program participants are expected to create a community project with potential to stimulate transformations and improvements in their chosen area, whether that is education, health care, economic development, environment, arts or any other social field - participants will develop plans for local or international social entrepreneurship entities or innovative projects, partnerships or other arrangements that would have a positive impact on social outcomes. Project takes place in three stages. Within first stage from 01.09.2011 to 21.10.2011 participants are completing several home tasks. From 22.10.2011 to 31.10.2011 all the group will meet in Riga, Latvia, and develop their competencies in social entrepreneurship within the framework of the training course ''Change Laboratory''. From 01.11.2011 to 31.01.2012 follow-up activities will be carried out along with evaluation. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This page reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

2. Grameen story

3. Poor people are bonsai people. There's nothing
wrong with their seeds, but society never gave
them the proper base to grow in. All it takes to
get poor people out of poverty is for us to
create an enabling environment for them. Once
the poor can unleash their energy and
creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.
(Muhammad Yunus)

4. Social business is a new form of capitalism
and a new kind of enterprise based on the
selfness of people. It is a kind of business
dedicated to solving social, economic and
environmental problems that have long
plagued humankind - hunger, homelessness,
pollution, ignorance.

5. 1. The business objective is to overcome problems
that threaten people, not to maximize profit.
2. The company will attain financial and economical
sustainability.
3. Investors get back only their investment amount.
4. When the investment amount is paid back, profit
stays with the company for expansion and
improvement.
5. The company will be environmentally conscious.
6. The workforce gets market wage with better than
standard working conditions.
7. Do it with joy!

6. In present interpretation of
capitalism, human beings engaged
in business are portrayed as one
dimensional beings whose only
mission is to maximize profit.
But human beings are not money
making robots.

7. Social entrepreneurship relates to a person.
It describes an initiative of social
consequences created by an entrepreneur
with a social vision. This initiative may be a
non-economic initiative, a charity initiative, or
a business initiative with or without
personal profit.

8. Social entrepreneurs are individuals with
innovative solutions to society’s most
pressing social problems. They are ambitious
and persistent, tackling major social issues
and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.
Rather than leaving societal needs to the
government or business sectors, social
entrepreneurs find what is not working and
solve the problem by changing the system,
spreading the solution, and persuading entire
societies to take new leaps.

9. Signs advertising residential property for sale line a street in south London in April 2008. Photo: AP

10. Nigerian women pick out rocks and dirt from rice found on the ground outside of the food storage warehouse. Photo: Jane Hahn

11. A drawing by the Swiss artist Olaf Breuning in response to the destruction of our environment and nuclear crisis in Japan

12. Greenpeace attempts to increase environment awareness

13. Critical caricatures about health care in US

14. Man sits outside a lean-to he calls home outside of Yerevan. Photo: Tom Vartabedian

15. Echoing Green
finalist weekend

16. Anuradha Koirala
Maiti Nepal

18. entrepreneurship

19. strategic planning

20. management

21. marketing

22. finance

23. leadership

24. communities
and rights

25. research methods

26. law and justice

27. media and
social
change

28. teaching
entrepreneurship
to disadvantaged

29. Established business
knowledge may be
counterproductive in social
business
It may lead you to think in wrong
directions, because profit-making business
has different goals

30. 1. You must stand behind the line and you can not
switch places with other participants.
2. Each person must touch each object.
3. Passing ball opens the round and closes the
round.
4. If one object falls, you lose the try.
5. You choose, which objects and in how long time
will you pass to other corner.

31. learners
control
of his or her learning
learner
learning by
orientation
process doing
steaming from
participants
PRINCIPLES realities
OF NON-FORMAL
EDUCATION
inclusion
no single truth
no universal
formulas
self-evaluation
learning from active
each other participation

32. To gather knowledge in social entrepreneurship
area and form competencies essential for
initiation and development of social
entrepreneurship activities by non-governmental
non-profit organizations.

33. To develop our abilities to analyze obstacles and
opportunities within a social sector and identify
potential strategies to effect change
in the sector.
To learn practical tools for analysis, idea and
business model generation.

34. To foster participation, initiative, creative and
leadership skills and sense of being responsible
about our communities and environment.

35. To facilitate exchange of experience about various
self-financing and fundraising strategies among
third sector organizations in Europe.

36. To develop intercultural competence.

37. To develop plans for social ventures with added
mission and financial value to our organizations
and communities.

38. 1. Develop skills that may
contribute to entrepreneurial
behavior
6. Plan and prepare 2. Examine opportunities
venture to fulfil needs and to
solve problems
THE
ENTREPRENEURIAL
CYCLE
5. Use all available
resources to evaluate 3. Generate ideas to
opportunities and ideas satisfy opportunities
4. Assess the opportunities
and ideas

39. This project has been funded with support from the European
Union. This presentation reflects the views only of the author,
and the European Commission and cannot be held responsible
for any use which may made of information contained therein.