Strengthening innovative social entrepreneurship practices for disruptive business settings in Thailand and Myanmar Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strengthening innovative social entrepreneurship practices for disruptive business settings in Thailand and Myanmar

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Thailand & Myanmar are facing key social problems such as economic disparities, demographic challenges and educational gaps that hold back the countries´ development & advancement of its people. This has led to an increased interest in using social entrepreneurship (SE) to address some of the most pressing issues by delivering both social impact & economic benefit. Despite this wave of innovation, there is a lack in really disruptive ideas that create sustainable, yet profitable businesses. Higher Education institutions are in need of modernizing their physical infrastructure & upgrading of teaching capacities in order to be able to react to current educational developments & to develop future change makers. STEPup aims to transform existing social entrepreneurship practices and promote innovation in Thai & Burmese HEIs by integrating advanced learning tools for the creation of disruptive business ideas into existing academic structures, while strengthening the university-business collaboration through participatory schemes on a local and regional level. Expected results & impact envisioned:• Strengthened teaching staff capacities & student skill sets through innovative teaching & learning methodologies by offering SE trainings • Modernized technical infrastructure of Thai & Burmese HEIs by creating, equipping & putting in operation Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hubs• Enhanced HE-Enterprise cooperation and students learning experience by developing SE Case studies in cooperation with established social entrepreneurs, to prepare students for innovative thinking in “real life” contexts• Greater awareness and reach of high-quality training material & publications by providing access to Open Educational Resources to regional and international academic community• Extended networks in social entrepreneurship innovation in national & international HE contexts by joint publications and organising the International Conference on Innovative SE practices.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 908297 Eur

Project Coordinator

FH JOANNEUM GESELLSCHAFT MBH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• PAYAP UNIVERSITY
• NATIONAL MANAGEMENT DEGREE COLLEGE
• PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY
• MAHASARAKHAM UNIVERSITY
• MANDALAY UNIVERSITY
• CHIANG MAI SOCIAL ENTERPRISE COMPANY LIMITED
• STICHTING BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES