The King's Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab) looks forward to welcoming the second cohort of its Social Venture Residential, run in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program and the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation (CCSI). The Programme is designed to help students understand how entrepreneurship can tackle contemporary social challenges and develop skills with which to enact positive change in various sector of society.
Between the 14th and 16th of January, the E-Lab will host 41 students from across 15 Cambridge colleges for the residential. These students come from a wide range of disciplines - from engineering, law and applied mathematics to public policy, economics and development studies - and are a mix of undergraduates and graduates. This helps to create a vibrant, diverse and interdisciplinary environment where students are able to explore the meaning and the potential of social innovation.
In collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Cambridge, the E-Lab runs a year-long extracurricular program aimed at cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset that students can apply to their own projects. The aim is to encourage student innovators to challenge the status quo and re-imagine the world through sustainable and ethical projects that can have a positive social and environmental impact.
The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Cambridge provides high potential students from under-represented communities in Africa with full scholarships to complete a Master’s degree, learn transformative leadership skills and contribute towards climate resilience and sustainable futures for communities in Africa.
January also marks a spotlight on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at King's E-Lab's Mindsets. Each week, the blog series will publish insights from students and entrepreneurs and explore key themes in current debates on the subject. You can read the first post, on social impact measurement by Simon Glenister, here
