“Impact for Future” is supported by a consortium consisting of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM) together with its Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE), Landshut University of Applied Sciences, Munich Business School (MBS), the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich (UniBW) and Social Entrepreneurship Akademie (SEA)
The funding is intended to provide thousands of students and researchers with in-depth training in impact orientation over the next four years and to anchor the topic of impact and social responsibility in the university landscape.
“Impact for Future” aims to focus more on the social and ecological impacts of economic activity
With this new funding measure, the Ministry of Science supports the “qualification of students and scientists to become problem solvers who think and act responsibly in an entrepreneurial manner,” said the Minister of Science. Bernd Sibler in announcing the funding recommendations.
"I am very pleased with the success of the funding program. This enables us to integrate the important topic of 'social responsibility' even more systematically into our entrepreneurship qualification,"
says Thomas Stumpp, Vice President of Business at Munich University of Applied Sciences.
“In addition to understanding economic relationships, forward-looking entrepreneurship teaching must focus even more on aspects of social responsibility and the social and ecological impacts of economic activity.”
The core of the Munich consortium’s successful application is its holistic teaching concept with consecutive and context-related offerings that meet the needs of different target groups, according to SCE Managing Director Klaus Sailer.
“Another main focus is inter- and multidisciplinarity,”
supplemented Kristina Notz, Executive Director of the SEA.
"Particularly exciting from the perspective of Social Entrepreneurship Akademie is the interdisciplinary teaching of future-oriented skills. In addition to the social, life, and environmental sciences, STEM subjects in particular will be more strongly included. To reach these new target groups, the SEA's existing offerings will be expanded."
