A month of action, reflection and future thinking
Wow, what a month! We’ve had delegations from Latvia and Belarus here to examine social innovation in Sweden, and we’ve also welcomed a group of young leaders from South Asia...
Celebrating SE Outreach entrepreneurs and the SDGs
Thursday night saw the culmination of six months of hard work, new learnings and new friendships. Our SE Outreach Accelerator participants have spent the last few weeks in Stockholm developing...
In the name of good business and the SDGs
September is when Sweden is back at work at full tilt after the summer break. The focus is intense and I like the anticipation of opportunities and ideas it brings....
An accelerator of entrepreneurship, opportunity and impact
SE Forum’s six-month flagship accelerator program is designed to help high-impact entrepreneurs create the change they want to see in the world. Our ambition is for our program participants to...
SE Forum welcomes Communications and Coordination Lead to the team
A new job means new people, new opportunities, new challenges. In my case it also means new country and new city. Although, not entirely new as I was born in...
Internal work, the Queen and a week of politics
The Swedish summer is now finally here and SE Forum will take two weeks off. The focus this past month has therefore been on setting us up for success after...
Sociala entreprenörer driver hållbar utveckling
Sociala entreprenörer är bland de bästa på att driva utvecklingen inom de globala hållbarhetsmålen, visar en ny rapport. Trots det bemöts sociala entreprenörer med misstänksamhet och tvivel i Sverige. Entreprenörer...
Filter out the noise and introduce quality
Not surprising the focus of our work in April has been the SE Outreach Accelerator program. Eight social entrepreneurs from different parts of the world, working in different sectors have...
Sunshine, programme preparation and reported impact
Finally the spring has come to Sweden! Even though I’ve always said that the weather doesn’t really affect me, I now must correct myself. I seem to get an incredible...
Collecting bottles in Nairobi and coding in Dar es Salaam – seeing our impact first-hand
Sometimes you feel blessed doing the work we do. This was certainly the case last month. A trip to Kenya and Tanzania enabled us to see first-hand the impact of...
A whirlwind of travels, programs and the launch of 2017’s SE Outreach Accelerator participants
In my professional life, I’ve always heard that January and February are quiet months. That doesn’t seem to apply to 2017. We are announcing 2017’s participants in the SE Outreach...
Christmas and new opportunities!
Christmas is approaching fast, which means we’re soon moving into 2017. A new year with new possibilities. However, before we get ahead of ourselves I would like to take the...
Selecting 2017’s participants: exciting, intense and very inspiring!
This time of year is as busy as interesting. We are currently selecting participants for the next SE Outreach Accelerator program starting in April next year. A capacity building program...
SE Forum took on a Ukrainian challenge in Kiev
SE Forum was invited to present at the second all Ukrainian Forum of Social Entrepreneurs in Kiev last week. It was there we and the audience received the challenge, do...
Thoughts from snowy Stockholm and sunny Palestine
October isn’t my favorite month of the year. It’s usually wet (in Sweden at least), cold and quite dark. However, this year October has flown by with programs being delivered,...
Graduation, goodbyes and new opportunities!
September was one of those months that passed by SO quickly. We had 8 social entrepreneurs here for our Accelerator program and they did so much. Moving into October it...
SE Outreach Accelerator 2016 Graduation
The SE Entrepreneurs of 2016 held their final presentations in front of a full audience at Berghs School of Communications, together with keynote speakers Stefan Krook (founder of GoodCause Foundation)...
Techsektorn måste hjälpa till att lösa FN:s hållbarhetsmål
Under OS lever idrottare från hela världen på en och samma plats under en månad. De har kanske aldrig setts eller bekantats med varandras grenar. Ändå känner de en koppling...
1 year later – Visiting our SE alumni from 2015!
Annabel from SE Forum recently spent three weeks visiting our alumni in India, Vietnam and Uganda! Having the privilege of being hosted by three social entrepreneurs from the SE Outreach Accelerator 2015...
Bridging the gap – from Lund to India
Last week SE Forum had the privilege of being partners to a summit called The Bridge in Lund, Sweden. The theme was “pushing humanity forward by linking science and business”....