WUN - Afternoon Day 1
In the afternoon of the first day of the WUN conference, two parallel sessions took place, one on innovation and internationalisation and the other on social responsibility and enterprise development.
The latter sessions were delivered by educators and career service staff from a range of institutions in the UK and US, including China-UK Network members. The focus of talks was very much on enterprise education projects. Delegates from the University of Illinois talked about their project, Entrepreneurs Without Borders (http://www.entrepreneurswoborders.org), where students engage in social enterprise projects with a focus on community benefits, and expressed their desire to work with partner universities to develop a global partnership. Other delegates spoke of their work on creating shared resources related to social entrepreneurship through the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship developed for careers services (http://www.ncge.com).
During discussion this afternoon, delegates were clear in their focus on social enterprise as a community-developing activity, rather than simple profit-making – one delegate using this as an example of a way to engage students of social care in improving people’s lives through networking, listening and partnership. To what extent can enterprise educators involved in such dynamic projects themselves be seen as social entrepreneurs, and our students not just as recipients but also as partners – stakeholders who ultimately have a key role in the success of our endeavours?
Richard Tunstall
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