What We Do

Turning social challenges into opportunities for change.

MCISE works across the social innovation ecosystem to inspire ideas, strengthen people and organisations, support entrepreneurship, produce knowledge and contribute to an enabling environment for social innovation.

Awareness Education & Empowerment Incubation Research Advocacy
MCISE programmes and social innovation
05 complementary areas of intervention
Our Approach

Social innovation needs more than one type of intervention.

Creating sustainable social change means working at different levels of the ecosystem, from inspiring people to act, to giving them the skills and support to develop solutions, generating knowledge and contributing to an environment where those solutions can grow.

MCISE therefore combines five complementary areas of work that connect people, ideas, organisations and institutions.

Our Areas of Intervention

How we turn ideas into impact

01

Awareness

We introduce social innovation and social entrepreneurship to wider audiences and create spaces where people can discover new ways of responding to social and environmental challenges.

Through events, campaigns, community activities and ecosystem engagement, we help inspire individuals and organisations to see themselves as potential actors of change.

Events Community Campaigns Ecosystem Engagement
02

Education & Empowerment

We develop knowledge, skills and entrepreneurial mindsets that enable individuals and organisations to understand challenges differently and design stronger responses.

Our educational activities combine practical learning, capacity building, training, coaching and tools adapted to different audiences and contexts.

Training Capacity Building Coaching Learning Tools
03

Incubation & Entrepreneurship

We support entrepreneurs, project holders and organisations as they transform ideas into viable initiatives capable of creating sustainable social and economic value.

Depending on the programme, this can include ideation, pre-incubation, incubation, mentoring, business development, prototyping, market testing and connections to opportunities.

Ideation Incubation Mentoring Business Development
04

Research & Studies

We contribute to the production and dissemination of knowledge on social entrepreneurship, social innovation and the ecosystems in which they develop.

Research helps us better understand needs, identify opportunities, document practices and generate evidence that can inform programmes, partners and wider ecosystem actors.

Research Studies Knowledge Evidence
05

Advocacy

We engage with ecosystem actors to strengthen the conditions in which social entrepreneurship and social innovation can emerge, grow and contribute to development.

This means connecting practice with dialogue, sharing evidence and lessons learned, and contributing to conversations around the future of the social innovation ecosystem.

Dialogue Ecosystem Policy Collaboration
One Ecosystem

Our areas of work are designed to reinforce each other.

Awareness can inspire an idea. Education builds the capacity to act. Incubation turns solutions into viable initiatives. Research generates knowledge. Advocacy helps create stronger conditions for those solutions to grow.

01 Awareness
02 Educate
03 Develop
04 Learn
05 Influence
Who We Work With

Social innovation is built collaboratively.

Our work brings together different actors who each have a role in creating sustainable social impact.

01

Changemakers

Young people, entrepreneurs and project holders developing solutions to social and environmental challenges.

02

Civil Society

Associations and organisations working directly with communities and contributing to local development.

03

Public Institutions

Institutions and territorial actors looking to strengthen inclusive and innovative approaches to development.

04

Partners

National, international and private organisations collaborating to design, fund and scale meaningful interventions.

Work With MCISE

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