Teaching

SEKN's teaching strategy is to reach increasing numbers of students through degree and executive education program courses and provide transformative learning experiences for them. To increase the impact on practitioners, SEKN's strategy is to deploy the knowledge generated for the training of practitioners. This can take different forms in different schools but the strategy has been to ensure that in each member school new social enterprise courses are developed or existing ones significantly enriched with this knowledge and teaching materials.

To date the SEKN members in total have 103 social enterprise courses in their degree programs serving close to 3280 students. In addition, since 2000 the SEKN schools have offered 46 executive education programs reaching close to 3,060 practitioners.

The network is also interested in offering SEKN executive education courses staffed by SEKN faculty from different schools and offered periodically in different locations. The first effort in this arena is the course “Leadership and social innovation in nonprofits organizations” carried by ESADE in Barcelona with the participation of professors from three other SEKN schools members (Universidad de los Andes, Universidad de San Andres y Harvard Business School).

SEKN, in collaboration with Programa de Cooperación Internacional Fundación “la Caixa”, will offer between May 2007 and March 2008 the course “The management of alliances between nonprofit organizations and business in Iberoamerica”. This course is oriented to practitioners from business and nonprofit organizations. This course will take place in each of the following countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain, Mexico, Peru y Venezuela.