INCUBATION
Our remote incubation program matches quality seeds with the best soil for sprouting
PLANNING
You come with your idea and we guide you through a proper business development model designed for social enterprises.
VALIDATION
During the validation process we help you to work on your product-market fit, clarify intellectual property issues, and build up a support network for your implementation.
IMPACT MEASURE
In order to better your chances of attracting social investors, donors or customers you will need to prove your impact potential. In our program we help you to find your way to measure and highlight your impact.
The duration of the incubation process is 6 months with an opportunity to extend it with additional 3 months
What is happening during the incubation?
The process is tailored to your needs following different models,
the list below is not a linear model, it is a showcase of the most common topics.
You also can handpick the most relevant topics and elements contacting
our skill mentors for theme specific consultation.
(Click on the photo to contact our mentors)
Idea creation
Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic element of thought that can be either visual, concrete, or abstract.
Zsolt
Bugarszki
(Hungary)
Katri-Liis
Lepik
(Estonia)
Problem assessment, market analysis
We help you to identify and analyse the main societal and/or environmental problems you want to address with your idea. You also need to do a market research on your customers' needs and about existing solutions on the market.
Ildikó Barna
(Hungary)
Audrone Urmanaviciene
(Lithuania)
Business plan
Translating your idea to business terms. We are usually working with the CANVAS business model adapted to social entrepreneurship.
Leendert de Bell
(Netherlands)
Andries
Volschenk
(Slovakia)
User involvement
In our incubation program we pay particular attention to user involvement. Social entrepreneurs are often targeting vulnerable people (people with disabilities, mental health problems, elderly people..) with their services or they run their business with the participation of vulnerable group members.
Anikó
Sándor
(Hungary)
Csilla
Cserti-Szauer
(Hungary)
Storytelling
In social entrepreneurship personal stories behind the business are very important.
We help you to build up your narrative using. storytelling
Isabelle
Swiderski
(Canada)
Hayley
Trowbridge
(UK)
Design
We help you to build up your brand with strong visual elements. We put an emphasize on web design, UX/UI design and your business's online presentation.
Michaela Engström
(Estonia)
Sara
Sinha
(India)
Social media marketing, marketing
Building channels to your customers. We help you to identify and use the best channels to reach your customers.
Keti
(Georgia)
Ashley Misleh
(USA)
Sales, revenue creation
The art of making money, turning your initiative to be self-reliant and sustainable.
Tom Austin
(Ireland)
Impact measurement
We help you to emphasize your societal/environmental impact. We use different tools
for impact measurement using the UN Sustainability Goals as general framework.
Jackson Seng
(Singapore)