RCE Graz Styria-2010

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1. General Information
Contact Name(s): 
Clemens Mader
Organizational Affiliation : 
University of Graz
E-Mail Address(es): 
Project-relevant information: 
RCE Bulletin No. 14
2. Project Information
1. Project title: 
Practical Course: Development of NGOs & Social Entrepreneurship
2. Project Description: 
Students investigate development processes of NGOs as well as Sustainability Entrepreneurs. Furthermore, students may bring up their own ideas for founding an NGO, social or environmental initiative and are beeing supported in their development during the semester.
3. Project Status: 
Finished
4. Key Words
Key Words: 
Biodiversity
Other: 
Education, Sustainabity, Climate, Criminality, Youth activities
5. Project categories
Project categories: 
Education
Networking and partnership development
Material production
Other
Other: 
Establishing NGOs and social Enterprises
6. Expected outcomes:: 
Initiatives, NGOs and social enterprises with different subjects and goals developed by the students.
7. Duration of the Project:: 
Concrete plans for realising different initiatives.
3. Project Leadership & Vision
8. Project coordination (e.g. teams): 
Mainly working in teams
9. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
1
b. Transactional: 
4
c. Transformational: 
5
4. Project results
11. Contribution to reforms and innovations: 
The impact is mainly in the private sector rather than on an institutional level.
13.Core Partners: 
oikos Graz, studienaktie.org, High-School in Imst
5. Partnership and networking
14. Project Network
a. Information network: 
3
b. Knowledge network: 
4
c. Innovation network: 
3
7. Education & Learning
17. Educational activities: 
Firstly the students themselves were adressed by experiencing social entrepreneurship.
Some projects also have educational aspects like the sustainability trail.
18. Learning activities: 
Capability of students to become entrepreneurs for society and environment. To open the mind of the students for different future oppportunities.
19. Educational activities
a. Theory: 
2
b. Discussion: 
3
c. Interactive and Multidimensional "action oriented education": 
5
8. Research Integration
20. Research & Development (R&D): 
The students were active investigating for specific practicable solutions to specific problems in different regions in the world.
21. Research partners: 
University of Graz
22. Description of research
a. Disciplinary: 
4
b. Interdisciplinary: 
2
c. Transdisciplinary: 
4
Type: 
Project Reports
Region: 
Europe
Community: 
Youth
Community_second: 
Capacity Development
Issue: 
Capacity Development
One More Issue: 
Climate Change
Country: 
Austria