Social Entrepreneurship Incubator

Applications open for Autumn 2022!

In the Social Enterprise Incubator your team will be able to make your organization investment-ready through a series of workshops accompanied by individual expert mentoring for each team. The program will focus on transitioning from testing the idea to scaling up the business, developing long-term impact and funding strategies as well as managing the growth process.

Who is welcome to apply?

The idea / enterprise solves a social, educational, health or environmental problem
The main product or service of the enterprise has already been developed (and preferably tested) to some extent
The idea / enterprise is able to earn its own income. You will be able to develop this further, but there should be an initial plan of how the idea / venture will be funded.
A team of 2-3 members is required to participate in the incubation program.

What will you get?

Individual expert mentoring
Develop an impact and sustainability strategy
Meet investors, pitch your idea and, depending on your progress, reach a real financing agreement

The incubator includes the following topics but is not limited to those:

Kick-off: Introduction of teams and the programme (14.09)

Social business canvas (24.09)
Team value proposition (24.09)
Social impact: What is your strategic value proposition to key stakeholders? (15.10)
How to find investors and get public funding? (29.10)
How to scale your social innovation? (12.11)
Pitching training (14.01)
Bootcamp (TBC)

In 2022-2023 the Social Enterprise Incubator is co-financed by the KiNESIS Project. KNowledgE alliance for Social Innovation in Shrinking villages (KiNESIS) is a three–year–long project (2021-2023), co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Previous Mentors

David Parks
The Skill Mill/ Tallinn University
david.parks@theskillmill.org

Erkki Kubber
Estonian Social Enterprise Network
erkki@sev.ee

Jaan Aps
Stories For Impact/ Tallinn University
jaan@storiesforimpact.com