NETWORK | FUNDING | TALENT | MENTORSHIP | KNOWLEDGE
Tackle pressing global challenges
THROUGH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Apply before the 1st of November to join the
OSE Venture Lab programme 2020/21!
Partners
The Programme
The OSE Programme is a high-intensity, milestone driven programme built to recruit, equip, and leverage Oxford-based social startups created to tackle pressing global challenges.
Ultimately, it is up to your team to build the startup. The programme is here to help structure your process, teach you key skills, connect you with other students and advisors, provide mentorship, and to inform you about relevant funding opportunities and competitions. The programme begins in November 2020 and lasts for the full academic year. The start is more intensive as we take the teams through an 8-session programme, one session every two weeks.
You will need to have at least one student or alumni from Oxford in your team to join, but we welcome and encourage diverse teams with members outside Oxford and the UK. Covid means everything happens online anyway, so it is easy to join us from abroad. The programme is fairly intense if you enter as a one-man-band (although we won’t stop you), but we can help you recruit a team for your idea.
Mentorship
Curriculum
Funding
Talent
Network
Resources
Featured Projects
VitaGum
A multivitamin-infused gum to combat malnutrition in refugee populations
Winner of Graduate All-Innovate Competition, Oxford Hub Social Enterprise Awards & DTC Impact Award for Enterprise and Innovation
3D Primed
Open-source 3D-printable products
Taking requests from healthcare workers for 3D printed materials during the Covid pandemic.
NABIO Greenhouse
A greenhouse creating employment for women in Kenya
Selected Balliol MCR Charity 2019/20, employment of 20 women since December 2019.
In-Kindness
Bringing trust into support of homeless
Translating digital cash donations from local residents to donations in-kind claimed by homeless persons when shopping at a local business. Pilot currently running in Oxford.
The Committee
Sandeep Unwith
President and Chair
DPhil in in Chemistry and Molecular Oncology at Oxford University
Sandeep is a final year DPhil student in Molecular Oncology from Kellogg College, Oxford. His interest in Social Entrepreneurship developed from his employment with Big Issue Invest, where he worked as Investment Analyst for the Social Enterprise Investment Fund. Prior to this, Sandeep served as the Finance Business Partner for the Convenience Business unit of The KraftHeinz Company. Sandeep, has an interest in user generated social innovation, equality, and poverty eradication. Outside of OSE, he is actively involved in his college, as President of Kellogg College, MCR.
Kyungmi Kim
Vice-President of Projects
MBA in Business Administration at Oxford University
Her background is in digital marketing and social entrepreneurship. After studying English Language and Literature in college, She worked in media and digital communication industries in Singapore and Malaysia. She advanced her digital marketing career to Ogilvy & Mather and BBDO worldwide in Korea. Eager for social impact, She co-founded ZeroGravity & Co in 2015, an organisation that provides community development through creativity workshops, arts education. As a dance artist, this ‘passion project’ offered art space in Seoul and community regeneration for post-earthquake regeneration in New Zealand, funded by Korean governement. She was 2017 research fellow of Asian Cultural Council in New York City, USA prior to MBA at Oxford Said Business School. Currently she is MBA candidate, Said Scholar and advisor for Oxford Development Consultancy. Her interest is in sustainable development , inclusive economy, intelligent community, AI and emerging technology.
Andrea Stykket
Marketing and recruitment
MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Oxford
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Marketing graduate with an interest in market-based routes to social and economic development. I am especially interested in startups, technology diffusion and extra-regional trade linkages – with a focus on their impact on capabilities and welfare. Varied experience with small-scale social entrepreneurship and nonprofits, and a marketing BA focused on social marketing from Newcastle University. Currently studying for an MPhil at the Oxford Department of International Development.
Advisory Board
Peter Drobac
Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Bhanu Prasad
Partner, Tata Consulting Services, University of Oxford, MSc Social Policy and Intervention
Join a team
Join one of the exciting teams already registered at OSE, matching your background and interests.
Join with an idea
Have you got an idea, or even just a passion to solve a problem? Apply now and put together a team to join the programme.
Join with a startup
You can join the programme with a project or startup in early stages.
