The first time in the short history of Cropster participates at a panel discussion of Zukunftszentrum Tirol in Innsbruck.

In Cooperation with the German Genesis Institute the Zukunftszentrum Tirol organised a kick off meeting with the topic “Social Business/Sozialunternehmen”. Well known social entrepreneurs opened the very successful event as key note speakers with the following program (German).

The most important goal of the event was starting to spread the idea of social business/entrepreneurship in Austria and founding a platform for (potential) social entrepreneurs/enterprises for networking and getting in touch for the exchange of ideas.

About 150 participants from different countries in the region were extensively discussing the “new” upcoming topic of sustainable entrepreneurship. New events were discussed and the start of different network-initiatives in the near future has been focused.

Necessary information:

Zukunftsstiftung Tirol (German): http://www.zukunftszentrum.at

Genesis Institut (English/German): http://www.genisis-institute.org

Vision Summit (English/German): http://www.genisis-institute.org/125.html?&L=0

Muhammad Yunus (English): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus

“A social business is designed to meet a social need. I believe that many kinds of enterprises can be created as social businesses in order to serve the poor” Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2006