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69th YSBC established:Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) at Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH)
Yunus Centre, Dhaka and Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) today have signed an MOU agreement for the establishment of a Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) at their campus in Noida,India.This takes the overall count of YSBCs around the globe to 69, and becomes the 10th YSBC in India. Established in 1988, BIMTECH is postgraduate business school located in Greater Noida, an education hub in the National Capital Region of India.The institute is situated at the Knowledge Park, where...
Yunus Warns IIT Kharagpur Students and Teachers about the danger of Artificial intelligence
Yunus Centre Press Release (February 6, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was a Chief Guest at The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) on February 2 organized at the Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) to discuss the mission, vision and the practice for generating sustainable banking and social businesses including micro-finance at Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.IIT Kharagpur is a public engineering institution established by the government of India back in 19...
Thailand Seeks Yunus' Advice on Development of Muslim Majority Southern Provinces
Yunus Centre Press Release (04 February, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited by Kasetsart University, Thailand's leading agriculture university to visit the southern provinces of Thailand from 26-28 January. Southern Thailand has remained significantly behind the rest of Thailand in economic and social developments. Out of five provinces of the Southern Thailand, four provinces have more than 80% Muslim population. Professor Yunus was invited to meet the people and the admin...
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus met with Immersion and Internship program participants at YC.
A nine member team from the National Central University Taiwan consisting of one staff member and eight students are taking part in an immersion program from 20th January 2019 to 31st January 2019 at Yunus Centre. Also present in the delegation are members of the Yunus Social Business Centre of the university who are also completing their orientation visit to social business project sites. During their stay, the visitors will be visiting several Grameen Social Businesses and other Grameen ...
National Taichung University of Science and Technology (NTCUST) in the 8th in Taiwan and 67th YSBC in the Network
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus along with representatives of the Foundation for Yunus Social Business Taiwan today have completed the signing of the MOU agreements between Yunus Centre and National Taichung University of Science and Technology (NTCUST) for the establishment of the university's Yunus Social Business Centres (YSBC). The signing ceremony was conducted at Yunus Centre, Dhaka with video conferencing arrangements through which the President of the university, Chung-Hung-Hsieh...
Soochow University is 7th YSBC in Taiwan and 66th YSBC in the Network
The 7th YSBC in Taiwan to be established by Soochow University, Taiwan has through an MOU signing on January 21, 2019 officially entered into the collaboration with Yunus Centre.Professor Muhammad Yunus and representatives of Foundation for Yunus Social Business Taiwan who have hand delivered the agreement papers to Yunus Centre on behalf of the university are seen with the signed documents.The YSBC will now work to further understand and disseminate Professor Yunus' philosophies with special fo...
Yunus Social Business Centre@FEP UPM
UPM-YSBC plans to provide the B40 university students with creative accounting skills to meet the needs of the market and to face the challenges of a changing world in the decades to come.Generally, YSBC at UPM will provide accounting experiential-based learning with the B40 group of entrepreneurs. As the “language of business”, these B40 university students will provide record-keeping, control, verification, and financial securities that are required for any successful entrepreneurs...
New Entrepreneur:Start Your Life As an Entrepreneur
What started in 2013 as a small initiative to support the entrepreneurial abilities of the second generation of Grameen Bank borrowers, now has given rise to a massive family of 38253 "Nobin Udyoktas” (NU) or “New entrepreneurs”. “Nobin Udyoktas” are the children of Grameen Bank borrowers who are entering or contributing to the labor force as talented young entrepreneurs.Unemployment is a crippling problem for society, leading to societal decay through lower product...
Grameen Hosts Inclusive Finance Initiative of Asian Financial Cooperation Association (AFCA)
Yunus Centre Press Release (January20, 2019)A day-long conference on Inclusive Finance leading to forming of Inclusive Finance Cooperation Committee (IFCC) co-organized by the Asian Financial Cooperation Association (AFCA) of China and Grameen China, hosted by Grameen Trust was held today at Grameen Bank complex.The Asian Financial Cooperation Association (AFCA), established by the government of China in March 2017, is a platform to establish business connections and communication among financia...
The 2nd International Conference on Healthcare, SDGs and Social Business
Access to affordable healthcare facilities is still a huge global challenge. Find out from experts about the latest innovations in healthcare and how social businesses can play an important role in taking healthcare services to the doorstep of those who need them the most.Click on the following link to obtain the full proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Healthcare, SDGs and Social Business organized by Social Business Academia Network (Japan), Kyushu University and Yunus Centre du...
Get ready for the Social Business Creation (SBC)Competition organized by HEC Montreal
Get ready for 2019 Edition Social Business Creation competition will accept applications in January 2019 at www.socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca. The deadlines: - January 31, 2019 for independent students - February 28, 2019 for institutional applicantsThinking about testing or launching your innovative social business idea? Want to learn how to create effective business model and get inspired by successful social entrepreneurs?Social Business Creation (SBC) Competition is designed for stud...
Achieving the Goals of 2018 and Future Trends: Yunus Social Business Centre – La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
YSBC staff at the 2nd International Conference on Healthcare, DGs and Social Business at Kyushu University JapanBuilding Asia Pacific YSBC networks:YSBC Director Professor Gillian Sullivan Mort attended the inauguration of the YSBC at Kaohsiung University, Taiwan and was a judge at their first Design Innovation Competition. She also presented a paper at the 2nd International Conference on Healthcare, DGs and Social Business at Kyushu University Japan, Ito Campus along with attending the Social B...
Official Launch and discussion session on social business by Yunus Social Business Centre, Bethlehem University, Palestine.
Yunus Social Business Centre Bethlehem University, PalestineYSBC Contact:Professor Fadi Kattan, Dean of the School of Business Administration,Bethlehem University, PalestineEmail:fkattan@bethlehem.edu...
Bethlehem University set to launch the first Yunus Social Business Centre in Palestine
Timings: Dec 14, Friday 9:30-12:30 (GMT+2)Location: Furno Hall, Millennium Building, Bethlehem UniversityFacebook LIVE Link: https://www.facebook.com/ BethlehemU/videos/ 194256638185579/Following the official signing of the MOU agreements between Yunus Centre and Bethlehem University for establising a Yunus Social Business Centre in 2017, Bethlehem University and VIS - Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo are now all set for its official inauguration. The event wil...
Meeting the students from the Yunus Social Business Centre Barcelona
On the last November 17thprofessor Yunus met some of the students of the Yunus Social Business Centre Barcelona, a network formed by 9 different universities from Barcelonathat promote the studies of Social Businesses and Social Economy. Students from UniversitatPompeuFabra, Universitat de Barcelona, UniversitatAutònoma de Barcelona, UniversitatPolitècnica de Catalunya, UniversitatInternacional de Catalunya, UniversitatOberta de Catalunya, UniversitatAbat Oliva CEU, EADA Business S...
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