The University of Basel is offering a free online Entrepreneurship in Non-profits course on Future Learn. The course teaches its students about social entrepreneurship and how to ensure that an enterprise is both profitable and charitable. The instructor for the course is Professor Georg von Schnurbein, the Professor for Philanthropy Studies at the University of Basel. The duration of this course is five weeks.
The University of Basel is a university in Switzerland, established in 1460 and is one of the oldest universities in the world. It is a research university, a multitude of different departments offering undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs for international students. The university has had 10 Nobel Prize winners.
The course is divided into five weeks:
- Organizational theories and entrepreneurship
- Social entrepreneurship
- Introduction to social innovation
- New financing models
- Impact measurement