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Bangladeshi Young Automechanics Heading for Japan
Yunus Centre Press Release (18 March, 2023) Eleven automechanic students, graduated from Japan Automechanic School (JAS) in Dhaka, are all set to leave for Japan to start their career as automechanics. These students of the fifth graduating class of the school are leaving for Japan soon. Two students went from the fourth graduating class. Next graduating class is waiting to send all the graduates. These students received two years of simultaneous training in automechanics and Japanese ...
YSBC Web Lecture Series - Lecture 05 : Why and How Corporates Get Involved in Social Business.
We would like to invite you join us for the next session of the YSBC Web Lecture Series: Lecture 5: Why and How Corporates get involved in Social Business which is coming up on October 19, 2020; Time: 14:00:00 GMT (Please Check your Time Here). In this session Mr. Leonhard Nima, Founder of Studio Nima will be in a virtual fireside chat with session speaker, Mr. Hans Reitz, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Grameen Creative Lab, talking on the important i...
One Million Free Non-Medical Face Masks Provided by Grameen Telecom
Press Release - Grameen Telecom (03 May 2020) Grameen Telecom will provide 1 million cloth masks, free of cost, to underprivileged people who are unable to afford masks. 72,000 pieces of masks have already been distributed through various organizations so far. According to various international research and announcements by the Health Ministry coronavirus transmission can be significantly reduced by using masks made of cloth, especially those with knit fabrics. Grameen Telecom has tak...
GCCN launched an online E-learning portal
Grameen Caledonian College suspended its academic activities on its premises since March 17 due to Covid 19 following government directive. To ensure students’ academic study continues, GCCN launched an online E-learning portal on 1 April 2020. The GCCN faculty members are teaching 3 different courses - BSc in Nursing, Diploma in Nursing and BSc in Nursing (Post Basic) with a total of 70 subjects online. This portal is interactive and tracks every student’s academic progress, in...
A Note on Social Business and Social Entrepreneurship
Muhammad YunusJanuary 12, 2020 This is a short note to draw your attention to the difference between Social Business, Social Entrepreneurship, and Social Enterprises. In some writings I see the differences are blurred or even the terms are used interchangeably. It will be damaging to the concepts to use these terms interchangeably. I have tried to clarify this in my writings in the past. But I see that the confusion still persists. I have defined social business as a business which is ...
Grameen Trust (GT) crosses 11,000 New Entrepreneurs(Nobin)
Grameen Trust (GT) has crossed 11,000 New Entrepreneurs in its 735th Executive Design Lab (EDL) held on November 24, 2019 at Rajbari Unit under Faridpur Anchal. The Design Lab was chaired by Mr. Delwar Hossain, Anchal Prodhan, Faridpur Anchal. A total of 6 project proposals were presented by the potential new entrepreneurs and all the proposals were unanimously approved during the Lab. Till November 24, 2019, GT has approved a total of 11,031 Nobin projects wi...
Japan Automechanic School Celebrates its Third Graduation Ceremony, Addressed by Japanese joint venture partner Ms Kazuko Sumino president of S.K. Dream
Yunus Centre Press Release (05-MAy-2019)The 3rd graduation ceremony of Japan Automechanic School was held yesterday 04 May, 2019 at Grameen Bank Auditorium at the Grameen Bank Complex, Dhaka. Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate and Chairman of Japan Automechanic Ltd., presided over the occasion and distributed certificates among graduates. Ms. Kazuko Sumino, President of S K Dream Japan, graced the occasion as Special Guest. The ceremony was also attended by Mr. Tsuneaki Hirao, Managing Dir...
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN - 9TH SOCIAL BUSINESS DAY, 28-29 JUNE, 2019, BANGKOK, THAILAND
We invite you to register for the 9th Social Business Day, being held June 28-29, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand.Hosted by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and organized by Yunus Centre, Dhaka, Social Business Day is an annual gathering that celebrates the groundbreaking idea of social business and highlights emerging developments from all over the world. This year your local host is the Yunus Center at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), supported by the Yunus Social Business Cente...
Want to know about YSBCs in Bangladesh? Here is what Daffodil International University (DIU) had to say about a recent activity under their YSBC
Daffodil International University (DIU) hosted the 2nd edition of 2019 Youth4SDG Asia Leadership Program in Bangladesh from 19th to 26th January 2019 organized by YouthinkCenter China and supported by Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC), DIU with active participation of 18 talented students from 18 different universities in China and 5 participants from Bangladesh. Under this program, the young leaders worked to create social business plans after surveying different villages of Bangladesh ...
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 ...
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...
KHAZANAH ASIA SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME 2019
YayasanKhazanah, in collaboration with Yunus Centre is offering the Khazanah Asia Scholarship to deserving candidates from Bangladesh to pursue their postgraduate education at selected leading universities in Malaysia.YayasanKhazanah is a foundation established by KhazanahNasionalBerhad (KhazanahNasional) - the investment-holding arm of the Government of Malaysia. In line with Khazanah's commitment to selecting and grooming exceptional Malaysian citizens to take on high-level positions at ...
Final Presentation for the Immersion Program held at Yunus Centre.
The participants of the one month long Immersion Program presented their final presentation today at Yunus Centre in front of the Executive Director of Yunus Centre Lamiya Morshed. This month’s participant was a German-Bangladeshi Law student Named Rakhal Zaman. Born and raised in Germany, Rakhal pursued his LL.B from London Metropolitan University and LL.M from Kings College London. He is working as a legal consultant under European Commission since Oct'17. He is also working as a researc...
Yunus meets with Japanese entrepreneurs aiming to create social business opportunities in Japan using Bangladeshi Products.
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus met up with a team of entrepreneurial-minded students from the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Japan, at Yunus Centre today. This team has won the "APU Unique Project Competition" and "President DEGUCHI Business School Event" with their project "LEGAME".The Japanese students are aiming to create social business opportunities in Japan using Bangladeshi products for the university going students there. This is why they came to visit the Yunus Cent...
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INTI-Yunus Social Business Centre
Malaysia Yunus Center for Social Business and Sustainability
Tirana, Albania
YSBC@AIMS Institutes
Karnataka, India
YSBC@FEP, UPM
Selangor, Malaysia YUNUS SOCIAL BUSINESS CENTRE, FEP, UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA
SELANGOR, Malaysia
