The Social Enterprise Academy, Nigeria, is an educational and capacity development institution, which awards internationally recognized certificates and qualifications in the field of social enterprise to professionals and entrepreneurs in Nigeria. The aim of this academy is to accelerate mainstream adoption of social sustainability into the heart of business strategy by developing leaders and enterprises through specialized training and leadership programmes in Nigeria. The Social Enterprise Academy, Nigeria, is licensed by Social Enterprise Europe, and recognized by the Federal Ministry of Education in Nigeria.
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International Affiliations
The Social Enterprise Academy, Nigeria, sponsored by the Nigerian Capital Development Fund, offers programs in line with Social Enterprise Academies around the world. At present, the Social Enterprise Academy can be found in five other countries, including Scotland, Wales, South Africa, Australia and China.
Mission in Nigeria
The primary goal of the Social Enterprise Academy, Nigeria, is to furnish organizations with practical and sociological tools for professionals focused on facilitating the creation of innovative yet community driven solutions to major socioeconomic shortcomings. Other goals of this initiative to include:
Social Enterprise Programmes
Programmes covered at the Social Enterprise Academy, Nigeria, feature a degree awarding Masters Programme in Social Enterprise and various certification programmes. These programmes options, grouped into four categories offer courses in entrepreneurship leadership and innovation strategies, public policy and administration, cooperative enterprise and social innovation.
Furthermore, in line with the social impact objective and government partnership, the Social Enterprise Academy, Nigeria offers hundreds of enrolled students full or partial scholarships to pursue any of its programmes.
Executive Masters in Social Enterprise Programme
The Executive Masters in Social Enterprise programme is geared towards building and maintaining stakeholder support, securing investment, and measuring and communicating success for participants.
The programme consists of a 25-unit, seven-course curriculum comprising four core courses and three electives. Core courses are usually completed over an 18-month period in an intensive format.
Executive Education Programmes
The Executive Education Programmes are designed to feature a wide variety of educational materials pertaining to organizational management. This category also provides custom programmes for public, social, and private sector executives. Programmes offered under this category include:
Certificate programmes
Fellowship programmes
Milestones
The Social Enterprise Academy, Nigeria, is a member of an international network of educational institutions which focus on improving enlightenment, accelerating community impacting initiatives and promotes equal opportunity to over 500,000 enrolled participants. To this effect, the Social Enterprise Academy, Nigeria provides free access to an online database of academic resources and department specific journals via the Social Innovation Lab.