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Contact us nowIf you're looking for new solutions, you have to explore new approaches. "Business as usual" quickly reaches its limits. We provide you with a compass for your journey, build bridges where you need them and help you to overcome obstacles.
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Follow us!Social Business Hub Styria is a social & green business incubator and network for people who solve social challenges in an entrepreneurial way. We develop, promote and support social innovations, inspire and advise founders in Southern Austria, build strong networks and disseminate our expertise, thus working towards a fair and sustainable society.
The topic of social and green entrepreneurship with all its different dimensions represents the central element of our work: Social entrepreneurship for different target groups – for people who want to found or further develop their own company or intrapreneurs who focus on social and/or ecological innovation within companies. Social & green entrepreneurship offers opportunities for rural regions and creates perspectives for people facing difficult life situations. We build networks with national and international partners. Together we research and develop strategies how to build vibrant social & green entrepreneurship ecosystems.
We offer a variety of support options for people interested in starting a business and for organizations and companies that want to increase their social impact.
Our programs include creative workshops for idea generation, an incubation program for social entrepreneurs and an acceleration program for impact ventures that want to scale their social impact.
Social Entrepreneurship ProgramsSocial Innovations arise when different partners with different backgrounds start working together to solve social problems. We are looking for new partners to work with us on social change for a better future in national and international projects.
Social Innovation Ecosystem
In the rapidly changing digital world, social & green entrepreneurs are faced with the challenge of communicating their messages effectively and reaching their target groups. In this workshop, Rudolf Grutschnig, former CIO and digital business consultant, will explain how to optimize digital marketing strategies and position a successful, sustainable company.
Sonnenschmiede is a leader in the implementation of communal photovoltaic systems on multi-family houses – and is therefore a pioneer of the sustainable energy transition in Austria. At our Venture Jour fixe, founder Johannes Frühmann talks about the magic of a good (founding) team, the challenges of bringing innovation to an old industry and his most important learnings for building a company.
The Purkarthofer ice cream factory combines ice cream with social business and is holistically regenerative, both at the product and organizational level. As a pioneer, the company wants to tell new narratives, experiment and show how to create change and impact in the craft industry. At this Venture Jour fixe, owner Klaus Purkarthofer explains how to successfully transform a traditional SME and, in the process, create jobs that empower people and protect nature.
The digital world now consists of countless tools that are designed to make our lives easier and make our business opportunities more effective. In practice, however, it is often difficult to choose and nobody wants to spend hours learning about software solutions that they will never use.
In this workshop, you will receive a practical overview of the targeted use of digital instruments and an answer to the question of which tools are really useful in your current company phase!
After the overwhelming feedback last year, we were delighted to organize another day this year that gave participants at our Social & Green Business incubation programme the…
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On May 7, the Social Business Hub Styria started the next round of the Social & Green incubation program with a kick-off event at the Unicorn Startup & Innovation…
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The networking event of the Startup Schmiede Oststeiermark took place at the beginning of March in the coworking space “Hauptplatz 12” in Weiz. This new…
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