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SESAM – Centre for social entrepreneurship and collaborative social innovation

SESAM is a centre for social entrepreneurship and collaborative social innovation at the University of South-Eastern Norway. The centre represents a knowledge-based environment at the national level, established to increase social innovation within the Norwegian welfare society, based on scientific research. We aim to be Norway's leading knowledge-based actor and preferred collaborative partner within our field of expertise.

 

What SESAM can offer

Collaborative partner

Would you like to become one of our collaborative partners?

Contract research

Do you have ideas, issues or topics you would like to collaborate on together with a professional research centre?

Project group U-turn

Social entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship actually covers two things. One is the designation of a phenomenon; a type of activity in the welfare community – the second is the term for a certain form of organized, formal enterprise.

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Collaborative social innovation

Collaborative Social Innovation

Not all forms of collaboration is what we define as collaborative social innovation. Collaboration is a collective term that covers all kinds of collaboration, while collaborative social innovation defines a certain form of collaboration. Kind of the same way as the word fruit is a collective term for all kinds of fruit, while the word apple is reserved to describe only, quite naturally, different kinds of apples.

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Relevant articles

Digital innovation trail by SESAM

SESAM (Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Collaborative Social Innovation) and Husbanken (The Norwegian State Housing Bank) have created a digital course called "Boligsosial læringsløype" (Learning trail for social housing).

A u-turn towards better housing

Larvik municipality and The University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) have tried out a new way of helping economically disadvantaged families in order to improve their housing situations.

Collaborative partners