Social Impact Award 2011 – push the button, change the world!

April 18, 2011 | Matthias Reisinger


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The Social Impact Award is an idea competition promoting Social Entrepreneurship among students. During submission period it offers free workshops to everyone interested in Social Entrepreneurship. These workshops help participants to find and structure their project ideas and gain insight into topics like design thinking and financing social start-ups.

The submission period 2011 ends on 29th of April – until then students of Austrian universities (or team with 50% students) are invited to hand in their project ideas to solve social challenges in an entrepreneurial way. All projects from social businesses to – for example – initiatives in civil society are welcomed. On 30rd of May the best projects will be awarded (summer) stipends consisting in € 4.000,- and a Unlitmited Hub membership during the summer months.

For more information and impressions visit www.socialimpactaward.at and www.facebook.com/socialimpactaward

Matthias Reisinger IMPACT IS… Doing what makes you come alive in a way it contributes to more than just yourself. WHAT DID YOU DO BEFORE BECOMING PART OF THE IMPACT HUB VIENNA TEAM I was finishing my studies and building up emersense, the NGO which gave birth to the Hub WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOUR JOB? Prototyping the new way of doing business WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HAVE ACHIEVED AS PART OF THE IHV TEAM BY THE END OF THE YEAR? Hosting the impact eco-system in Austria and bringing it to the next level WHAT DOES YOUR PERFECT SUNDAY LOOK LIKE? Excercize + Chillaxation + Good Food & Good Movie in Good Company WHAT IS AN ABSOLUTELY RANDOM FACT ABOUT YOU THAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW? When I was learning the piano as a child, I refused to learn the music pieces I was supposed to, but only wanted to play my own compositions PLACE OF BIRTH? Linz, Austria LANGUAGES YOU SPEAK? German, English, French

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