The aim of this High-Level Capacity Building Seminar is have an international exchange of information on inclusive entrepreneurship actions across the European Union and on how the European Union Structural Funds can be used to support actions that combine entrepreneurship promotion and social inclusion.

1. SEMINAR SUPPORTING YOUTH IN
ENTREPRENEURSHIP

2. ASHOKA: A PIONEER ORGANIZATION IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
❖33 years of experience in the field of social entrepreneurship worldwide (85 countries)
❖ WORLD’S LARGEST SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR NETWORK
❖More than 3000 outstanding social entrepreneurs financially supported and professionally
coached, 47 in France-Belgium-Swizterland and 8 in Belgium alone
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3. Ashoka envisions an Everyone A Changemaker™
world:
THE VISION

4. Ashoka Builds Communities
of ”Changemakers”
Ashoka Fellows: Seed Capital for Entrepreneurs with System-
Changing Ideas for the Good of Society
Strategic Support for Scaling their Impact
Collaborative Entrepreneurship to accelerate important
innovations/trends
Building the Market for Changemakers –supply and demand

5. EACH ASHOKA
FELLOW MEETS 5
CRITERIA:

6. ASHOKA’S
RIGOROUS
PROCESS
01
NOMINATION
02
NATIONAL
REVIEW OF
APPLICATIONS
03
SECOND
OPINION
REVIEW
04
SELECTION
PANEL
05
Validation
by board
members
https://www.ashoka.org/nominate

7. FRAMEWOR
K CHANGE
PATTERN
CHANGE
DIRECT
SERVICE AT
SCALE
DIRECT
SERVICE
Society/key groups change
how they see the world
>>triggers behavior change
What a true
entrepreneur does
# HIV patients treated,
wells dug, etc.
ASHOKA FOCUSES ON FRAMEWORK AND PATTERN CHANGE

8. SOME OF OUR INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS
❖ Our Fellows (social entrepreneurs) are active in many fields:
integration, education, health, environment, fight against exclusion,
economic development, etc.
MUHAMMED YUNUS
FOUNDER GRAMEEN BANK
JIMMY WALES
FOUNDER WIKIPEDIA.
DAVID GREEN
FOUNDER PROJECT IMPACT.
BART WEETJENS
FOUNDER APOPO

9. Their idea has been copied
They have influenced the politics of their
country
Ashoka played a significant role in their
development
Still involved in the development of
their innovation
94 %
93 %
56 %
72 %
54 %
They are considered as leaders in
their field
Our impact on the Fellows worldwide
Five years after their election, the Ashoka Fellows show incredible results :

10. 8 Fellows
18 members of Ashoka Support Network
Nutrition
Health
Integration
Environment
Education
ASHOKA BELGIUM

11. *
Ashoka Belgium Strategy
Reshape the frontiers of Social Entrepreneurship in Belgium and create a favorable eco-
system to develop large-scale solutions, based on three levers of action :

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13. • identify, connect and support the world’s leading
innovative schools
• create a network of Changemaker Schools.
• showcase best practice
• inspire new ways of thinking
• transform the education
system and how it
defines success
WHY CHANGEMAKER SCHOOLS?

14. CMA
PROGRAM PHASES
Based on a proven Ashoka selection methodology

15. • NO TWO SCHOOLS LOOK THE SAME
• SHARE A BROAD SET OF COMMON CHARACTERISTICS
• HAVE A ‘CHANGEMAKER’ PROGRAM IN PLACE THAT’S
WORKING
WHAT MAKES A CHANGEMAKER SCHOOL?

16.  Vision: cultivates ‘Changemakers’ skills in pupils:
 empathy
 teamwork
 leadership
 creativity
Example: school in Brussels
CHANGEMAKER SCHOOL DNA

17. Active Learning:
• Pupils active contributors,
• Learning environment encourages participation
• Experiential learning throughout school day
Example: small elementary school that
reinvented itself.
CHANGEMAKER SCHOOL DNA

18. Innovation:
• demonstrated ability and willingness
• to develop and test new ideas.
• school’s leadership encourages
• culture of innovation
Example: Elementary school
that has broken down walls
CHANGEMAKER SCHOOL DNA

19. Influence:
• The Changemaker School – regardless of size or
location – has the capacity to inspire other
schools.
Example: secondary school
that has been copied in Chile
and Rwanda
CHANGEMAKER SCHOOL DNA

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300
400
500
2013 2014 2015 2016
World
Europe
Belgium
• First elected schools in 2014
Target : 4 schools in Belgium and 27 in
Europe (UK, FR, SWE etc.)
• Reiterate program annually
Target : create a national, European
and finally global network of schools
CMA
CHANGEMAKER SCHOOLS STRATEGY
CMSchools Growth Plan
Numberofschools

21. CMA
CHANGEMAKER SCHOOLS : EVERYONE BENEFITS

22. Ashoka Belgium
Virginie Samyn– Representative Ashoka Belgium
vsamyn@ashoka.org