React with Impact - GUSTAV Programme
Looking forward with renewed power.
From August to December 2023 the GUSTAV program offered workshops, seminaries and networking for Social Businesses and Entrepreneurs in Northern Germany. Participants could also receive individual consulting and coaching sessions.
We delivered the program in cooperation with the EZN Erfinderzentrum Norddeutschland GmbH, with the objective to strengthen social businesses with respect to the their economic, ecological and social sustainability and to foster their crisis resilience.
You find further information in our blog.
Building strong and resilient social businesses
Social businesses develop innovations, which contribute to solve current global challenges.
They use economic success to achieve social impact.
To multiple and scale up their business models, strong and sustainable business strategies need to be designed and implemented.
Also, social businesses, need to protect their innovations and their brand. They also need to assure, that they comply with patent rights and patent laws.
GUSTAV receives public funding.
GUSTAV receives funding from the React-with-Impact-Program of the German Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Action (BMWK)
Ursula Heimann & Partner and EZN Erfinderzentrum Norddeutschland GmbH deliver the program in a cooperation aimed to strengten social businesses, foster their networking, and coach them on their way to economic, ecological and social sustainability as well as crisis resilience.
Kontakt: Dr. Ursula Heimann, uh@ursulaheimann.de
Our Team
Ursula Heimann & Partner and Erfinderzentrum Norddeutschland (EZN)
GUSTAV - Workshops and networking for social businesses
Sustainability Checkup
Is your social business economically, ecologically and socially sustainable?
Analyse main areas and processes of your business with our Sustainability Checkup. Identify opportunities to improve your business in oder to strengten it and to scale up your impact. Build a network with other social businesses and with other stakeholders of the impact ecosystem.
Networking in a historic tram
Be there and get to know motivated startups. What is happening with the implementation of the UN's 17 sustainability goals? Ask questions, offer support, and expand your network while riding a vintage tram.
This event is aimed at startups that act and think with a focus on the common good and actors from the areas of funding, support and financing (VC) who are enthusiastic about social entrepreneurship. Anyone from the startup ecosystem can take part.
Write an email to register: uh@ursulaheimann.de
When: October 17th, 2023, 2:30 to 5:00 pm
Where: Hannover
Sustainability Checkup
October 10, 2023: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., online
November 8, 2023: At the Technologiepark Braunschweig, 14:00 – 16:00 pm
Is your social business economically, ecologically and socially sustainable? Analyze central aspects with our sustainability checkup and identify initial options for action to strengthen your company and secure your impact.
Innovtion and Market
October 12, 2023: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m., online
November 2, 2023: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m., online
November 14, 2023: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., online
Which technical and social innovations do you use in your social business? Do you know possible patent and trademark requirements? Which own developments and inventions do you use? Do you know how to get patents and trademark protection for them?
And how can you get to know your customers better and offer your products and services to the market in an economically sustainable way? You will receive information and options for action in our workshop.
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Skilled Workers
The Task
How can companies, which are focused on the common good, find and retain well trained collaborators?
The Implementation
During the workshops or in individual assessment sessions we conduct an exploration of the topic and its priorities for each company, and guide them to find first strategic options and solutions. We connect them with partner organizations, that con give specific support.
Economic Success
The Task
What kind of strategic solutions are necessary to strengthen social businesses?
The Implementation
Through workshops or individual assessment we guide the companies to identify and prioritize opportunities for areas of improvement and develop first options of strategic action
Innovation
The Task
Which kind of social or technical innovations do social businesses use and what role does patent law play for then?
The Implementation
Through workshops or individual assessment we guide the companies to identify opportunities of innovation and bring in information on protection through patental law
