A gathering for GATHER with ideas for peace and entrepreneurship
Applications for the 2019 GATHER Fellowship are now closed and we have officially kicked off planning next year’s programme. We kicked it off by hosting a breakfast briefing at Norrsken...
Applications for 2019 GATHER Fellowship open until 1 November
We are thrilled to once again be partnering with US non-profit Seeds of Peace on the 2019 GATHER Fellowship, a programme supporting people who use their individual and collective power...
Half-way through the 2018 GATHER Fellowship for conflict transformation
Social innovators from communities affected by conflict in the Middle East, South Asia, the US and Europe, are all part of the one-year GATHER Fellowship we’re running together with US...
SE Forum seeks Executive Director to lead team and organisation into the future
SE Forum is a non-profit, membership organisation that promotes, inspires and empowers social entrepreneurs who seek to solve some of the most pressing social and environmental challenges facing the world...
A team announcement, a big welcome and strong optimism
It’s with sadness but also strong optimism that we’re writing this month’s letter. We are saying goodbye to Nicklas who is stepping down as the Executive Director of SE Forum...
A New York visit filled with impact, culture and new ideas
New York is as we know, the city that never sleeps. We experienced this first-hand when we visited in May. The purpose of the trip was our collaboration with Seeds...
Introducing the Impact Team that’s making a difference
We are thrilled to formally introduce our wider team – the SE Forum Impact Team, the team of passionate and experienced people that is creating change and making a big...
Joining young leaders for dialogue in the Stockholm archipelago
The pilot camp for Swedish young leaders with a focus on dialogue around antisemitism and islamophobia took place last week and we had the pleasure of taking part in discussions...
Diskussion kring regeringens nya strategi för social innovation
SE Forum deltog igår i en paneldiskussion kring regeringens nya strategi för att stärka utvecklingen av sociala företag och social innovation. Diskussionen hölls på Vinnova med Mikael Dambergs statssekreterare Stina...
Board members, insights and a fun travel companion
April is the month for Annual Meetings. This year was particularly interesting as we welcomed four new board members to SE Forum, all with strong experience spanning corporate law to...
SE Forum announces new Board and welcomes new Members
At our Annual Meeting earlier this month, SE Forum’s members elected a new Board, consisting of previous members as well as several new and exciting additions with varied experience from...
March brought us 16 Fellows, Joe Biden and a Swedish super diplomat
March marked a new adventure for SE Forum where we’ve teamed up with the leading US NGO Seeds of Peace delivering a unique fellowship aimed at using the power of...
Just getting started to transform conflict with our US partners
We’ve ended a fantastic week of workshops, discussions, study visits, reflection and much more. But we’ve only just begun an inspiring year of the GATHER Fellowship, and an exciting partnership...
SE Forum hands over review to Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation
SE Forum’s Executive Director Nicklas Wallberg has today (21 March) handed over our review of collaborations and partnerships between social enterprises and municipalities to Stina Billinger from the Swedish Ministry...
An evening of collaboration across borders and seeing a future of peace
Thursday night saw the end of a fantastic first week of this year’s GATHER Fellowship, and the kick-off of a one-year programme where our 16 Fellows will be developing their...
The incubator and partnership that is transforming conflict
As part of Seeds of Peace’s GATHER Fellowship, SE Forum is partnering with Seeds of Peace to run this week’s incubator that kicks off this year’s Fellowship. The incubator’s aim...
February was filled with discussions and preparations (and lots of snow!)
February has been an intense month for us. Usually the start of the year can have less of an urgency attached to it, but this year it’s been different. We’ve...
Launching a review of cross-sector partnerships in the Baltic region
Together with partners in Latvia and Belarus, we have published an analytical review of existing and possible cooperation and partnerships between social enterprises and municipalities in Latvia, Belarus and Sweden....
SE Forum partners with Seeds of Peace to unite social innovators in pursuit of conflict resolution
How do we move beyond superficial diversity to leverage our differences and build thriving, equitable communities across lines of conflict? This was the challenge posed to changemakers across the globe who...
Fighting a dark month with African sunshine and plans for the year ahead
January in Sweden is a dark month, and this year was no exception. Therefore, it was suiting that our colleagues Tove and Svitlana went to sunny Nigeria to follow up...