The Social Enterprise Open Camp is an international training event dedicated to social entrepreneurship gathering the most notable figures in the field of impact entrepreneurship worldwide. An intensive, immersive, and residential training experience featuring a program full of workshops, case studies from around the world, plenary sessions, and keynote speeches.
Speakers and social entrepreneurship experts from around the world will deliver the four-day residential training this year as well.
An experience made unique by the stories of social entrepreneurs, but also by the reflections and stimuli of mentors, academics, investors, and figures of industry and finance that will broaden participants’ field of action in a melting pot of knowledge and experiences.
Plenary sessions, kynote speeches, debates, round tables, and networking moments will alternate with workshops in which social enterprises/cooperatives that have undergone processes of transformation of corporate culture, valorisation of human and social capital, and experimentation with new business models aimed at sustainability will be proposed.
The topic of the Social Enterprise Open Camp 2023 is Unlocking the potential of human & social capital (Todi, 20-23 October 2023)
Human, Social and Relational capital are crucial and essential elements for the development and growth of entrepreneurship.
At SEOC 2023 we will focus on human and social capital as potential drivers of change, development, and growth in business.
This is one of the most important challenges the social economy in the Italian and global context has to deal with: the urgency of being attractive to young people, the need to train and retain talent, the need to develop the managerial skills needed to innovate, renew and grow, and the need to find professional figures specialized in care and welfare services, and the need to enhance the human capital of the most fragile people.
The second phase of the SEOC Challenge is now open!
Thanks to the support of our partners Fondazione Cariplo and Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo as part of the Innovazione per lo Sviluppo; Fondazione CRT; Fondazione Pietro Pittini; Fondazione con il Sud.
Up to 25 scholarships are available to applicants who intend to participate in the Social Enterprise Open Camp 2023 - Unlocking the potential of human & social capital.
You can get one of the scholarships made available if you belong to one of the following categories:
- a social cooperator, social entrepreneur, or social innovator who works in Piedmont and in Valle d’Aosta
- a social cooperator, social entrepreneur or social innovator who works in Southern Italy
- an international cooperation operator
- an operator in the world of associations
- an entrepreneur and social innovator
- a recent graduate or undergraduate interested in social economy and impact investing or young social cooperators under 25
If you are a member of an NGO, social cooperative/enterprise, association or start-up, you can submit the fact sheet of your organization (optional)
Maximum two members from the same organization
Applications from 13 September 12.00 p.m to 21 September 12 p.m.
Selection of the scholarship winners and notification: by 22 September 2023 by individual e-mail to each recipient.
Finalization of registration: those selected will receive a code to complete their registration and participation in the Social Enterprise Open Camp 2023. The winners should finalize their participation no later than 26 September by filling out the form on the website www.socialopencamp.org (in order to complete the process, follow the instructions on the site, pay a donation of € 50.00 to support the activities of the organizers, send a copy of the bank transfer and your personal data to the e-mail address indicated)
To participate in the challenge it is necessary to fill in the application on the following site: https://seoc2023challenge.apply-idea360.com/
To complete the application you need to:
- apply to the call for applications accessing https://seoc2023challenge.apply-idea360.com/
- submit the CV
- submit one of the following contributions chosen by the candidate:
- an essay (max. 2000 characters including spaces)
- a short video (max. 5 minutes)
- a presentation (max. 10 slides)
reporting known models and examples or suggesting ideas, proposals, strategies, and ways to valorize, train, and “release” human and social capital within companies and to develop new business models with a real social and environmental impact.
It is important that the contribution is not “generic”, but really gives valid suggestions on some central issues, e.g:
- how to remodel business models, change governance and stimulate new corporate cultures
- how to activate competence networks, partnerships, contaminations
- how to foster skills training, the promotion and retention of talent, the management of internal mobility, business continuity and generational change
- how to enhance intergenerational capital and diversity
The challenge will be open from 12.00 pm on 13 September to 12.00 pm on 21 September 2023.
The documents submitted by the candidates will be reviewed by Fondazione Opes-Lcef and by Consorzio Nazionale CGM which, at their sole discretion, will select up to 25 scholarship winners.
- Participation in all the activities planned by the Social Enterprise Open Camp - Unlocking the potential of Human & Social Capital
- Room and board in the affiliated facilities in Todi with accommodation in a double, triple or quadruple rooms according to availability (with the possibility of choosing your roommate/s)
- Check-in on the evening of 20 October and check-out on the morning of 23 October 2023.
To make it easier to reach Todi, location of Seoc 2023, also in light of the national strike of the public and private sectors scheduled for October 20, we will provide a bus service from different cities (Milan, Rome, Turin) for the Seoc 2023 participants.
Seats are limited and the service will charge a fee to cover transportation costs partially. More info here
- Anything not expressly mentioned in “The Innovazione per lo Sviluppo scholarship includes”.
- The journey from your place of residence to Todi.
To make it easier to reach Todi, location of Seoc 2023, also in light of the national strike of the public and private sectors scheduled for October 20, we will provide a bus service from different cities (Milan, Rome, Turin) for the Seoc 2023 participants.
Seats are limited and the service will charge a fee to cover transportation costs partially. More info here
By applying for the SEOC Challenge and getting a scholarship, the participant commits to take part in all scheduled plenary sessions and workshops