CODE-Social Entrepreneurship Project launched by AIESEC Mainland China and Avantchange was first introduced to Fudan University, China in 2008 spring. Around forty university students were involved in the social enterprise business course and five promising business plans came out of it.
Thanks to this good start, AIESEC Mainland China expanded this project to other 13 top universities in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in autumn 2008. Around 350 participants were targeted. The new project includes a social business course named CODE (Center of Dream Enterprise), internship opportunities, social business plan competition designed and Young Social Entrepreneur Summit (YSES)。
Our mission is to discover and develop young social entrepreneurs in Mainland China and Hongkong to start up their own social enterprises. Through the development process, we can promote social innovation and inspire the students to take charge in solving social problems creatively. Social entrepreneurship aims to create a harmonious society by using business solutions to solve social problems. We believe that Chinese students can change the world now by setting up innovative social enterprises. We envision this project will scale and become the best student-run social innovation factory in China.
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Beijing |
Shanghai |
Hong Kong |
| Peking Univ. |
Fudan Univ. |
The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong |
| Tsinghua Univ. |
Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. |
The Univ. of Hong Kong |
| Univ. of Int. Business and Economics |
Shanghai Int. Studies Univ. |
Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology |
| Renmin Univ. of China |
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Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. |
| Beijing Jiaotong Univ. |
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City Univ. of Hong Kong |
| Beijing Foreign Studies Univ. |
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Hong Kong Baptist Univ. |
Incubation Stage
a) CODE Social business planning course (3-4 classes)
b) Free Innovation training offeres by WhatIf (one class, in Mainland China only)
c) Speeched from NGOs and social entrepreneurs (two classes)
d) CSR planning session (one class)
- Students groups will present their new ideas to do CSR for our partner corporations.
- Corporations speakers will be invited as judges and evaluate students' presentations.
Hands-on Experience Stage
a) Internships in social enterprises
- Internship opportunities in Hong Kong social entrepreneurship forum (HKSEF)
- Other AIESEC Development traineeship opportunities on social entrepreneurship
b) Join the existing social business team
- Join Kid Infinity project, WeCanCompete Project and other business teams
Implementation Stage
a) Participate in business competitions
- WeCanCompete and YBD will provide many business competition resources
- AIESEC will hold a social business plan competition specially for this course
b) Develop teams
Backup Support
a) Leadership training opportunities
- Close involvement with AIESEC
- Partner with AIESEC to develop their business
b) Networking
- Join bi-weekly networking event organized by AIESEC
c) Young Social Entrepreneur Summit (YSES)
Young Social Enpreneur Summit is an initiative idea which came from AIESEC Mainland China and Hong Kong. It will be summit for CODE course participants in three cities, project partners and young people interested in social entrepreneurship. Besides, the final round of social enterprise planning competition will be running. Students will present their social business plans to externals (professors, project partners) and society (media and local citizen). Plus, we will announce the Project Mid-term Rport. YSES will be an annual event for Project CODE. The YSES is planned to be held in February, 2009.
Project Partners
| Learning partner
AvantChange is a builder of an Asian network of university-based incubators to empower students to develop for profit organizations with social missions.
AvantChange will provide the incubation course in Shanghai, Beijing and HongKong. The founder Steve Koon will act the instructor. |
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Innovation partner
WhatIf, the world top innovation company, will offer a free innovation training class to course participants in Shanhai and Beijing. |
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Learning partner
HKSEIC(Hong Kong Social Enterprise Incubation Center), will be the learning partner in Hong Kong, providing extra workshops for Hong Kong's participants. |
| Internship partner
Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Forum (HKSEF) is a membership-based, non-profit making organization with the mission of creating and sustaining a civic movement of social entrepreneurship in Hong Kong. HKSEF provides internship opportunities to work there as project coordinator. |
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Competition partner
WeCanCompete, the social business idea created in last year project, is competition information and consulting online center. WeCanCompete will offer competition opportunities to course participants and help promote the CODE social business planning competition. |
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Learning partner
Enterprise Asia will be the learning partner of CODE Project, providing extra workshops for our participants. The founder Andrea Krause will act the instructor. |
Contact
Jose Carlos Feliciano Nishikawa
Vice President of Project
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