On Wednesday we welcomed the ‘Students As Change Agents’ team to the Greyfriars Charteris Centre to answer the question:
‘How might we foster collaboration between social enterprise and mainstream businesses to help make ‘buying for social good’ the norm rather than the alternative?’
These incredible student teams from Edinburgh University came up with some incredible practical ideas for social enterprises and presented them to a roomful of their peers, social entrepreneurs and many others from the third, public and private sector.
Students as Change Agents (SACHA) is an exciting challenge-based programme which brings together students from different subjects to tackle real-world problems with a wider social, environmental, or economic impact. By joining the programme students become a ‘Change Agent’ and have the opportunity to apply their knowledge to the real world, with the potential to have a genuine impact and contribute to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Thank you to Edinburgh University for hiring a social enterprise venue (Greyfriars Charteris Centre) and using a social enterprise catering service (Goodies) for the day!
We’ll have interviews and a case study video from this event in the future but in the mean time, here’s some photos from the day.
