Work­shop with Anders Gründen
Oct. 7, 9:00—10:00 am

From Idea to Impact – How Social Busi­ness Mod­els are Created
How can an idea be turned into a busi­ness mod­el that cre­ates social impact while also being eco­nom­i­cal­ly viable? In this inter­ac­tive work­shop, you’ll gain prac­ti­cal insight into the fun­da­men­tals of social busi­ness mod­els and learn how to use the Social Busi­ness Mod­el Can­vas to struc­ture and fur­ther devel­op your own ideas. 

The work­shop will be con­duct­ed pri­mar­i­ly in Ger­man. Accom­mo­da­tions will be made for Eng­lish-speak­ing par­tic­i­pants as needed.

Who can participate?
You’re wel­come to join if you have an ini­tial idea for a social busi­ness and want to devel­op it further—whether you’re a design­er, an entre­pre­neur, or sim­ply pas­sion­ate and cre­ative. We look for­ward to see­ing you!

Anders Grün­den sup­ports founders, teams, and exist­ing com­pa­nies in North­ern Bavaria that want to solve social chal­lenges through entre­pre­neur­ship. It doesn’t mat­ter whether you’re just get­ting start­ed, have already tak­en your first steps, or are a com­pa­ny look­ing to grow fur­ther and make an even greater impact. ANDERS GRÜN­DEN sup­ports peo­ple with con­sult­ing, coach­ing, work­shops, and a strong network.

www.andersgruenden.org

Nico Eich­holz

Nico brings five years of expe­ri­ence in start­up con­sult­ing to the table. He found­ed a fair-trade fash­ion label him­self and is there­fore well acquaint­ed with the chal­lenges of the start­up process. His pri­ma­ry goal is to fos­ter people’s inner trans­for­ma­tion and cul­ti­vate an open mind­set toward social change.

Vale­ria Krauter

Vale­ria brings years of expe­ri­ence as a cus­tomer ser­vice train­er, dur­ing which she has devel­oped and con­duct­ed train­ing ses­sions, work­shops, and dig­i­tal pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment pro­grams for employ­ees and man­agers. Per­son­al devel­op­ment is par­tic­u­lar­ly close to her heart—with the goal of empow­er­ing peo­ple and sup­port­ing man­agers in their growth.

Work­shop with the Social Entre­pre­neur­ship Akademie
Oct. 7, 10:30—11:30 am 

Learn­ing and Work­ing with Proven Mod­els from Estab­lished Social Enter­pris­es 

In this Social Design Work­shop, project lead­ers and aspir­ing entre­pre­neurs will learn tips and tricks drawn from real-world imple­men­ta­tion expe­ri­ence and how to apply them to their own chal­lenges. Togeth­er, in a play­ful and col­lab­o­ra­tive way, par­tic­i­pants will devel­op ini­tial ideas for solu­tions to their own projects. The start­up advi­sors at the Social Entre­pre­neur­ship Acad­e­my have been suc­cess­ful­ly guid­ing social star­tups from the ear­ly stages through to scal­ing for many years. Come and be inspired!

Social Entre­pre­neur­ship Academy

As a net­work orga­ni­za­tion of Munich’s uni­ver­si­ties, the Social Entre­pre­neur­ship Acad­e­my serves as the cen­tral hub and offers a wide range of oppor­tu­ni­ties for any­one seek­ing to devel­op skills in social entre­pre­neur­ship and social innovation.

Who can participate?

You’re warm­ly invit­ed if you have an ini­tial idea for solv­ing a social prob­lem and want to devel­op it further—whether you’re a design­er, an entre­pre­neur, or sim­ply pas­sion­ate and cre­ative. We look for­ward to see­ing you!

The work­shop will be con­duct­ed pri­mar­i­ly in Ger­man. Accom­mo­da­tions will be made for Eng­lish-speak­ing par­tic­i­pants as needed.

Anne Doern­er

Anne has been respon­si­ble for start­up sup­port at SEA since 2011 and has also served as a con­sul­tant for the Social Start­up Hub Bavaria since 2022. An indus­tri­al engi­neer by train­ing, she worked for many years as a mar­ket­ing man­ag­er for Siemens on inter­na­tion­al projects. In 2003, she learned about the CSR ini­tia­tive start­so­cial and has been shar­ing her knowl­edge with social projects ever since. In 2008, she launched her own prac­tice as a con­sul­tant spe­cial­iz­ing in strate­gic mar­ket­ing, inno­va­tion, and entre­pre­neur­ship. She has long focused on the suc­cess fac­tors of inno­va­tion process­es in social intra- and entrepreneurship.

Lena Holzinger

Lena Holzinger has been the project man­ag­er for the Social Start­up Hub Bavaria at the Social Entre­pre­neur­ship Acad­e­my since 2022. Her involve­ment with Com­mu­ni­ty Kitchen Munich intro­duced her to the field of entre­pre­neur­ship, and today she advis­es founders of impact-ori­ent­ed ventures.

Work­shop with the ReDI School of Dig­i­tal Integration
Oct. 7, 12:00 – 13:00 pm 

Belong­ing by Design 
How can we design spaces where peo­ple tru­ly feel a sense of belonging? 

The work­shop explores how a sense of belong­ing is cre­at­ed with­in organ­i­sa­tions, munic­i­pal­i­ties and pro­fes­sion­al envi­ron­ments and as well as iden­ti­fy­ing where design, lan­guage, process­es, and dig­i­tal ser­vices may unin­ten­tion­al­ly cre­ate barriers.

The work­shop com­bines lived expe­ri­ence, reflec­tion and social design. A ReDI com­mu­ni­ty mem­ber with an inter­na­tion­al back­ground will con­tribute a per­son­al per­spec­tive, which then serves as a start­ing point for par­tic­i­pants to iden­ti­fy bar­ri­ers and devel­op ideas for cre­at­ing more inclu­sive environments.

The Work­shop will be held in English.

The ReDI School of Dig­i­tal Inte­gra­tion is a non-prof­it cer­ti­fied tech-school sup­port­ing peo­ple who lack access to dig­i­tal edu­ca­tion. Its name “ReDI” stands for “Readi­ness” and “Dig­i­tal Inte­gra­tion.” Found­ed in 2015, ReDI has trained over 30,000 learn­ers from more than 100 nations across Ger­many, Den­mark, and Sweden.

To break down social bar­ri­ers, the award-win­ning school pro­vides free IT-cours­es for (forced) migrants and mar­gin­al­ized groups, rang­ing from basic dig­i­tal lit­er­a­cy to advanced tech skills. Com­bined with men­tor­ship and indus­try net­work­ing, ReDI cre­ates direct path­ways into the labor mar­ket. The result: empow­ered learn­ers, effec­tive inte­gra­tion, and a diverse tal­ent pool for the dig­i­tal economy.

Vanes­sa Starcevic

Vanes­sa is a gen­der equal­i­ty and inclu­sion pro­fes­sion­al with expe­ri­ence span­ning France, the UK, the USA and Ger­many. Her work com­bines front­line expe­ri­ence sup­port­ing sur­vivors of gen­der-based vio­lence with con­sult­ing, train­ing and organ­i­sa­tion­al devel­op­ment, help­ing com­pa­nies and insti­tu­tions cre­ate safer, more inclu­sive and equi­table environments.

She holds a grad­u­ate degree from the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics in Women, Peace and Secu­ri­ty and has worked with organ­i­sa­tions, HR teams, man­agers and employ­ees on top­ics includ­ing gen­der equal­i­ty, work­place cul­ture, harass­ment and vio­lence pre­ven­tion, employ­ee griev­ances and organ­i­sa­tion­al change.

Today, Vanes­sa works in com­mu­ni­ty man­age­ment for ReDI School of Dig­i­tal Inte­gra­tion, pro­vid­ing free tech edu­ca­tion to refugees and peo­ple with a migra­tion back­ground. She man­ages a com­mu­ni­ty of 100+ vol­un­teer teach­ers and is pas­sion­ate about cre­at­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive, diverse and inclu­sive envi­ron­ments where peo­ple can learn, con­tribute and thrive.

She brings a trau­ma-informed, prac­ti­cal and peo­ple-cen­tred approach to her work — along­side a healthy dose of humour. She is par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in turn­ing prin­ci­ples of equal­i­ty and inclu­sion into con­crete actions that make a mean­ing­ful dif­fer­ence in peo­ple’s every­day experiences.

Pho­to cred­it: privat