Interviews

Oscar Ohlström is the entrepreneurial fanatic, with a degree in global development studies, who’s been running service operations in the restaurant industry, and is SE Forum’s current intern. Most recently, Oscar worked with fundraising and communications as Doctors Without Borders and he is studying a master’s degree in operations management at the moment so is…

This summer, we’ve welcomed our Interim Executive Director, Thomas Kanestad, following the departure of previous ED Nicklas Wallberg, who has stepped down due to personal circumstances. Although we were sad to see Nicklas go, we’re excited to have Thomas on board to continue growing SE Forum and the social entrepreneurship ecosystem, in Sweden and beyond.…

Our Communications Lead Tove Nordström is one of the authors of the new book Communicating Causes – Strategic Public Relations for the non-profit sector that was launched on 28 June in London with several of the authors – such as Sir Stuart Etherington and Colin Byrne – present. She has co-written one chapter about digital…

With 65 million illiterate people in Nigeria, the country is facing an urgent challenge of ensuring they can keep up as the population continues to grow at a fast pace. And with many other challenges facing the country – poverty, corruption, Boko Haram, power shortages – this group of adults is often forgotten about. But…

As part of our Baltic project where we’ve explored the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in the region, and produced a review on partnerships between social enterprises and municipalities, we’ve had the opportunity to get a real insight into the sector in Latvia, through our partner Social Entrepreneurship Association of Latvia. Its Director, Madara Ulande, took some…

Destiny Frederick is the young entrepreneur who is changing the view on and market for waste and recycling in Nigeria. She is the talented biochemistry graduate who wanted to do something different and go her own way. She is also one of our SE Outreach Accelerator alumna from 2017 and we had the pleasure of…

Social enterprise Basta uses social entrepreneurship itself as the basis of its business as it offers rehabilitation and work experience for those who have a background in alcohol or drug abuse. As part of our Baltic project exploring the social entrepreneurship ecosystems in Sweden, Latvia and Belarus, we met up with Basta’s founder Alec Carlberg…

In a country where it’s up to each individual or their family to find blood in an emergency, easy and efficient access is crucial. But the current situation in Nigeria is not easy and efficient as people are dying when they can’t find blood in time. Enter Redbank. A tech start-up based in Lagos tech…

For any social business, to ensure biggest social impact possible, it’s crucial to measure the correct things and learn from them. But where do you start and what should you think about? Social impact measurement is getting more and more attention but the complexity is also the interesting bit and we hear an increasing number…

Difficulties for young people to find a first job, and the lack of meaningful human interaction for older people living in Swedish care homes, led to the idea of social enterprise Ung Omsorg. We met up with co-founder Benjamin Kainz as part of our Baltic project exploring the social entrepreneurship eco-systems in Sweden, Latvia and Belarus, to hear…