{Event} How the SIFE World Cup rewards socio-ecological entrepreneurship

That ethics and Economy Hand go hand in hand is becoming increasingly important in times of banking crises and globalization. Nevertheless, sustainability often only functions as empty phrases, as a cloak for thinking about profit. Doesn't have to be, the non-profit thinks Organization SIFE - and awards sustainable student business projects at an annual World Cup. Yesterday has a German for the first time Team won!

What is SIFE?

1975 was founded by SIFE as a non-profit organization in the US Today, around 48.000 students worldwide are involved in 1.500 universities in 38 countries.

Central events are the annual national competitions and the World Cup, in which the respective winners of the national competitions take part.

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Entrepreneurial projects with socio-ecological issues are in competition. Objective is it about sustained create economic benefits for others. To this end, the SIFE students work with business administration Methods:

They identify challenges and goals, analyze framework conditions, develop concepts for knowledge transfer, and thus create long-term independence for those who benefit from the projects.

In this way, the young students learn in practice what is responsible Guide means. The initiative wants to promote economic sustainable thinking and thus the Welt do a little better.

Interdisciplinary and intercultural to success

On the 12. October 2011 has now for the first time in the history of SIFE won a European team - and that of the University of Regensburg. It consists of 50 students from ten different academic disciplines and nine nations (26 members were in Kuala Lumpur).

The team leaders are the prospective business economists, Josef Plank (25) and Hans-Georg Mann (26). The jury consisted of around 50 international managers. But what was actually awarded? A look at the winningideas:

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In Bulgaria, the SIFE team promoted the Uni Regensburg small Bulgarian entrepreneurs such as carpenters or the operators of small grocery stores who were in economic difficulties. To this end, the SIFE team in Bulgaria first held workshops on the basics of business administration in front of a total of 300 participants - four of the Regensburg team members are from Bulgaria.

From these events a closer one arose Contact to about 25 small business owners. Became fast clearthat there was a great need for machines and office equipment such as printers, computers and cell phones.

Therefore, the team procured over 90 written-off, still functional machines from German Companys, transported them to Bulgaria and leased them to the small business owners. In a third step, they received individual coaching. One of the entrepreneurs, a carpenter, now runs one Onlineshop and also sells its products to Germany.

Electrification and education for Roma in Romania

Mentioned in the “Integration ON”. Projects was about the integration of the residents of Roma settlements near Rosia in Romania. The residents there (around 200 households) were excluded, and the children had no educational opportunities.

A fundamental evil was the lack of electricity in the settlements, which consist of dark mud huts - children could not do their homework there, and home businesses work only a few hours a day. The SIFE team from Regensburg worked out a solar solution that made the settlements independent from the grid. The SIFErs held discussions with German solar companies. Partners were found to sponsor 30 solar solutions for individual homes.

The facilities were transported from Germany to Romania - as well as other equipment (lamps, telephones). The SIFE team specifically demanded that Roma children have access to the Education – and enabled, for example, ten of them to attend secondary school by organizing sponsors in Germany who support the Costs for the bus and learning material.

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The third project took its start in Regensburg, where the SIFE students at the end of 2010 noticed that a lot of deposit bottles were simply being put into the rubbish on the campus. The team procured bright yellow containers, which are now placed on the campus.

The initiative has not only from an ecological point of view positive Effects: Four mentally ill people take turns in emptying and sorting the bottles and they are paid for this work. Otherwise, it would be difficult for them to find meaningful, paid employment.

The model was adopted by six other SIFE teams in Germany in 2011: Hamburg, Berlin, Lüneburg, Mannheim, Hohenheim and Bochum. In the long term, the project called “Donate your deposit” should be the first “ONE SIFE” project in Germany to be present at over 40 universities where SIFE is currently available.

Conclusion

Apart from the fact that I am surprised that the project “Donate your deposit” was adapted in Berlin, where you can be happy when no one travels the deposit bottle out of your hand (stupid joke on the side!), I think the idea is really great .

Such projects are of course only possible through the sponsorship of international companies. It is to be hoped that the students will continue to use their lasting experiences later in their professional and academic life everyday management can put to use

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