Events

Social Business Meet & Greet 2023 – We celebrate the entrepreneurship of the future

The second edition of the large community event of the Styrian social business scene will take place on November 22nd, 2023 from 6:30 p.m. in the UNICORN Startup & Innovation Hub! Start of the official part: 7 p.m.

Workshop: Finding co-founders and recruiting first employees (hybrid)

How can I scale my team and how can I build a functioning organizational structure? Opportunities and risks when involving co-founders? Where can I find employees? What is the benefit of temporary workers (interns) and where can you find them?

Workshop: Legal aspects when involving employees and co-founders (hybrid), Andreas Zissler

How do I build a strong founding team? No income yet and having to do a wide variety of tasks – this is a challenge that founders often experience in the early stages. The involvement of co-founders or employees offers an opportunity to build a team with a longer-term perspective. Attorney Andreas Zissler will inform us about the legal framework conditions that must be observed.

Presentation of the current data from the Social Business Region Styria-Carinthia (hybrid)

The second edition of the report on measuring the social business sector will be presented at a morning event. This time with an innovation: In collaboration with the Institute for Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, data from the entire southern region of Styria-Carinthia was collected for the first time.

Deadline for application to Impact Incubation program 2023 autumn

In the Social & Green Business Incubation Program of the Social Business Hub Styria you have individual advice, access to experts and support from mentors, know-how development, the startup network, the social business community and the possibility of an office workplace over a period of time open for up to 12 months.

Workshop: Social Media for Start-Ups & Founders (online), Raffael Frick

What content “works” on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Kickstarter & Co?
In order to communicate quickly and effectively on social media, you need a basic social media strategy with different approaches. Videos are an essential part of this.

Impact bootcamp – 3 day workshop, September 26th / 27.09. / 03.10. 2023

What happens next with your idea addressing a social or ecological challenge?

During the Impact Bootcamp, you continue to work on your idea and look at implementation options to find the best way to implement it. Our trainers, experts and the exchange with like-minded people will support you in pouring your vision into a concrete plan.

Bootcamp – Crowdfunding for social entrepreneurs

With a crowdfunding campaign, you can promote your product, get feedback from the market, and test whether customers are willing to pay for your product. In this workshop you will learn how to strategically plan your campaign and what you need to prepare for it in order to set up your further individual campaign roadmap in individual coaching.

Part 2: Making company sustainability visible with impact analysis & reporting (+ preparation for state recognition as a Verified Social Enterprise)

What is the positive contribution that your company/organization makes to society or the environment? In this workshop series, you will learn more about how the positive effect (impact) of operational activities can be analyzed, clearly presented and reported on. With an impact chain, impact indicators and impact report, you can make the impact you have achieved measurable and visible, gain cooperation partners, inform funders and systematically develop your way of action. Please note: this is a two-day workshop whose units build on each other!

Part 1: Making company sustainability visible with impact analysis & reporting (+ preparation for state recognition as a Verified Social Enterprise)

What is the positive contribution that your company/organization makes to society or the environment? In this workshop series, you will learn more about how the positive effect (impact) of operational activities can be analyzed, clearly presented and reported on. With an impact chain, impact indicators and impact report, you can make the impact you have achieved measurable and visible, gain cooperation partners, inform funders and systematically develop your way of action. Please note: this is a two-day workshop whose units build on each other!

Make corporate sustainability visible with impact analysis & reporting (+ preparation for state recognition as a Verified Social Enterprise)

What is the positive contribution that your company/organization makes to society or to the environment? In this workshop series, you will learn more about how the positive effect (impact) of operational activities can be analyzed, clearly presented and reported on.

Workshop: Sales in practice (hybrid), Roland Wetzl

Sales is considered as the key to successful entrepreneurship. But what defines professional sales, which approach is suitable for which customer groups? What works, what should you avoid anyway?

Workshop “Business Valuation”, Otmar Kühner, April 18, 2023 (hybrid)

What is the value of my company? This question, which arises as soon as you want to get partners on board or negotiate investments and financing, is particularly difficult to answer in an early phase of company development.

Deadline for application to impact incubation programme 2023 Spring

The impact incubation program of the Social Business Hub Styria offers you individual advice, access to experts and support from mentors, know-how development, the startup network, the social business community and the possibility of co-working place over a period of up to 12 months.

Impact Bootcamp – 3-day Workshop, 17.03. / 18.03. / 24.03. 2023

How do you proceed with your idea for a solution to a social or ecological problem?

In the Impact Bootcamp, you continue to work on your idea, look at implementation options to find the best way to realize your idea. Our trainers, experts and the exchange with like-minded people support you in pouring your vision into a concrete plan.

Workshop: Positive Mind – „Positive Mind“ (hybrid), Viktoria Zinner und Verena Lechner – Golden Mind

The Golden Mind training programs aim to perceive the needs of team members and employees in order to recognize their stress level and to counteract excessive stress levels.

Impact Lab 03.03.2023

Experimentation, reflection and discussion take place in the Impact Lab. What possible solutions are there, which ones are most likely to be implemented? Solution ideas are checked, further developed or even discarded. What is the best offer to make a positive impact? Who benefits from your solution? Can an “impact-oriented” business model be developed that will enable the long-term implementation of the solution idea?

Crowdfunding Support – Info-hour (ONLINE)

In this online information event with Q&A session you have the opportunity to find out more about crowdfunding support for social entrepreneurs.

Workshop: Health of founders, Stefanie Stebegg (hybrid)

Entrepreneurs are committed every day with heart and soul and all resources. In doing so, they run the risk of exceeding personal limits and slipping into burnout – with fatal consequences for health and the company. Personal health and maintaining performance are just as important for sustainable corporate success as a good business plan. Stefanie Stebegg is an entrepreneur coach and expert in healthy performance habits.

Award ceremony for Idea Call – 9.2.2023, 18:00

On 9 February 2023 at 6 p.m., the winners of this year Idea Call will be announced and awarded in a big evening event at the Unicorn Startup & Innovation Hub!

Workshop: How (social) startups can work together with large companies (hybrid), Reinhard Fuchs – Glacier

How does a small startup get in touch with big players? What can it offer to them? What expectations have to be met so that cooperations are on an equal footing and successful? Rainhard Fuchs is Co-Founder and CCO of Glacier, a company dedicated to the following mission: “Empowering and educating companies and their employees to make climate action work”.

Workshop: Strategic network development (hybrid), Kirsten Tangemann & Rüdiger Wetzl-Piewald

Strong networks are an essential factor in building a successful business model. What types of stakeholders are there? What are their characteristics and interests? The workshop examines how effective networks can be developed and used in a targeted manner.

Q&A Session for Idea Call 2022 (Online)

Would you like to submit your idea to the Idea Call 2022 of the Social Business Hub Styria and still have questions? At the Q&A session on 12 December 2022, you can meet our board members via zoom and ask Kirsten Tangemann and Rüdiger Wetzl-Piewald all the questions.

Social Business Meet&Greet 2022 – We celebrate the future form of entrepreneurship

The first edition of the large community event of the Styrian social business scene will take place on 23 November 2022 from 6 p.m. at the UNICORN Startup & Innovation Hub! With this event, we would like to offer you the opportunity to provide you with the latest information from the field of social business. On the other hand, this evening also serves to network within the community and the ecosystem itself.