Community Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The aim of our community is to identify, generate and scale/diffuse social innovations in the Lüneburg region and the Hamburg metropolitan region through the systematic networking and collaboration of innovators, political decision-makers, established companies and civil society. Social innovations are understood to be innovations in products, processes or forms of organization that are developed to solve social challenges.

Climate crisis and social division. Wars and poverty. Welcome to the age of the polycrisis - a time when the world as we know it is threatened by multiple systemic risks. A time in which the social challenges are so great that individuals, companies and even individual states can no longer solve them alone, but only together. To achieve this, we need new methods, products, processes and forms of organization.

As a community full of people with the will to create, we provide inspiration and a sense of community, we create spaces for exchange and show development paths in order to take joint action. Whether digital podcast formats or analog community breakfasts, whether creative idea generation formats in small groups or large conferences, whether scaling workshops or workshops for the brave. We are innovative together. We are effective together and actively shape social transformation processes. Regionally. Nationwide. Internationally. Digital and analog. For a future that is good.

For our research topic "Scaling Social Impact" there is currently a call for theses.
If you would like to write your thesis in this field, you can find more information on the topic here: Thesis topics

The Leuphana Social Innovation Community is committed to shaping a sustainable society and brings together stakeholders from business, civil society and politics. Shape the future with us and become part of the community!

The community Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship is part of the project "TrICo - Transformation through Innovation and Cooperation in Communities". The project on which this report is based was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant number 03IHS284A. The author is responsible for the content of this publication.