Contexts and Practices of Social Entrepreneurship

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The classes combine the presentation and discussion by the teacher and the students and of students autonomous work focusing the analytical resources and the concrete experiences of social entrepreneurship. Academic and practitioners are invited. The development of analytical resources and research and action methodologies on social innovation and entrepreneurship processes is articulated with the individual reflection and collective debate about the individual projects of the students.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit is intended to promote discussion and knowledge and experience sharing in the field of social entrepreneurship, promote widening of cultural and scientific debate and contribute to the structuring of thinking about reality, the object of study and the research design or project work. Syllabus will focus on the identification of analytical tools and its application in the analysis of concrete experiences of social entrepreneurship taking into account the processes of innovation, development and amplification of the experiments and their impact, speeches and actors.

Students should know and apply the methodologies of analysis and intervention in the field of social entrepreneurship and reflect on the profiles and roles of involved social actors and the role played by these professionals and social workers within these contexts. Students should be the trained to be able to:

1) identify and analytically assess opportunities and concrete experiences of social entrepreneurship in their specific contexts;

2) identify and analyse intervention projects from the assumptions of social entrepreneurship. Students will be encouraged at the level of their analytical and self-reflective competences and autonomy, individual initiative and collaborative spirit, which shape the speech and practice of social entrepreneurship.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Module I: Social Innovation.
1. Modelling of Social Innovation.
2. The Cycle of Innovation.

Module II. Social impact and good practices.
1. Identify and assess social impact.
2. Identify and analyse critical factors of (un)success in implementing initiatives.

Module IV. Promotion and support of social entrepreneurship.
1. Support policies for social entrepreneurship.
2. Support initiatives for innovation and social entrepreneurship.

Head Lecturer(s)

Sílvia Maria Dias Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Continuous
preparation and the presentation in class of a synthesis work about the Master final work project in dialogue with the discussion of one or more texts chosen by the teacher: 40.0%
Synthesis work: 60.0%

Final
preparation of a scientific article : 100.0%

Bibliography

ASHOKA : Empreendedores Sociais ; McKinsey & Co..Empreendimentos sociais sustentáveis : como elaborar planos de negócio para organizações sociais. São Paulo : Peirópolis, 2001. BORNSTEIN, David — Como mudar o mundo : os empreendedores sociais e o poder de novas ideias. Afragide : Estrela Polar, 2007. BOTTING, Nina ; NORTON, Michael — Complete fundraising handbook. London : Directory of Social Change, 2007. DUCLOS, Hélène - Evaluer l'utilité sociale de son activité : conduire une démarche d'auto-évaluation. Paris : AVISE, 2007. ELKINGTON, John ; HARTIGAN, Pamela — Empreendedores sociais. Rio de Janeiro : Campus, 2009. ENTREPRENEURSHIP as social change : a third movements in entrepreneurship book. Edited by Chris Steyaert and Daniel Hjorth. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar : ESBRI, 2006. [BP COP-1878]. EQUAL. Histórias de sucesso de inovação social [em linha]. Lisboa : Gabinete Equal, 2008. Disponível em: http://www.equal.pt/Documentos/publicacao/PublicHistSucessoInovSocial.pdf. HUDSON, Mike — Managing at the leading edge : new challenges in managing nonprofit organizations. London : Directory of Social Change, 2003. [BP COP-1642]. ROCHE, Chris - Avaliação de impacto dos trabalhos de ONGs : aprendendo a valorizar as mudanças. 2ª ed.. São Paulo : Cortez Editora : ABONG ; Oxford : Oxfam, 2002. [BP 304 ROC]. UNIVERSIDADE COOPERATIVA EUROPEIA. O Referencial europeu do empresário social [em linha]. Direction Education et Culture, 2003. Disponível em: http://www4.fe.uc.pt/cec/ucereferencial.pdf.