Social Innovators Retreat
Collaborative Initiatives that Impact
The IE Africa Center Social Innovators Retreat is designed to create a unique knowledge generation and sharing intellectual retreat for Africa’s most cutting edge social innovators who are looking to find new tools and partners with which to scale their work.
The program operates on an invite-only basis, in order to carefully select innovators who are not only aligned with IE values, but are best suited to work with each other throughout the course of the program.
The IE Africa Center believes that the approaches and methodologies being employed by African leaders and entrepreneurs across different fields can offer instructive lessons for the world. As such, we have structured this retreat to focus on solutions that will be published by IE at the conclusion of the program.
SOCIAL INNOVATORS RETREAT 2019
The 2019 cohort of the Social Innovators Retreat featured 9 social entrepreneurs from 4 African countries; Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Uganda. The cohort spent 8 intense days in Segovia and Madrid ending with a pitch event to potential investors on the final day of the retreat.
This year’s cohort includes:
“ I was honored to be chosen and invited to attend the Social Innovator’s retreat by IE University in Spain. The company, Ahead of the Curve referred me to the university and they contacted me. This Social Innovators Retreat focusing on Africa was an eye opener to me to the world of social development and how this amazing university believes in Africa and genuinely supports small companies and organizations to increase their social impact. I’m just thrilled to find out that there are people out there that want to support all African countries in such a positive way. Plus my biggest come back is how we can cooperate with countries South of our Egyptian border. There are amazing initiatives that companies can partner with. We just need to reach out. Go Africa! ”
Glow
Amina Rashad
“ The Social Innovators Retreat by IE University’s Africa Centre gave an exposé into the known fact that Africa is the next big thing and how we need to invest in ourselves and amplify solutions that are coming out of Africa for global challenges. ”
Budgit
Gabriel Okeowo
“ The IE Africa Center Social Innovators Retreat is one of its kind; it has a fine blend of academic and practical knowledge, in a relaxed but challenging environment. I learnt as much from the inspiring works that my fellow social innovators are doing, as from the faculty. In all, it was very strategic in helping to reconnect to purpose, refine our work and reposition for greater impact. ”
Project Enable
Olusola Owonikoko
Sponsors & Collaborators
Founding Partner, Ahead of the Curve / Executive Director, MIT Legatum Center / Senior Advisor, Ashoka
Dina Sherif
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