UABC Yunus Centre for Social Business and Wellbeing

Training for social businesses With the objective of fighting the condition of poverty and inequality in our region, in the year 2018 the Assistance Program for Social Businesses was continued, and implemented by the university students and collaborating professors of the UABC - Yunus Center. Stages for Social Businesses Assistance 1. Structure and operation Through specialized instruments, the st.....

http://uabcyunuscentre.feyri.mx/PresentaciónThe concept of social business has been developed by Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize 2006, who promoted social businesses as an alternative to help solve poverty, through business initiatives based on market mechanisms, with  main objective to solve social problems and maximize welfare, from the production and sale of goods or ser.....

Currently, the professors associated with the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Wellbeing are operating an applied project. Community intervention work is carried out in nine urban areas with the most vulnerable population due to their poverty and social backwardness. The main intention is to strengthen the capacities of individuals in the medium and long term, preferably children and adolescen.....

In order to combat the poverty status and inequalities in our region, the Program for Research, Assistance and Teaching of Microenterprises was created as a Community Service program in 1999 at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), Tijuana, Mexico, with the participation of students and social businesses. In this sense, through a constant process of updating, a program of research, .....

On April 26 and 27, 2018, we organized the "FIRST SOCIAL BUSINESS MEETING 2018" held at the facilities of "Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, San Quintín". The students of university presented their experiences with social business and presented their social entrepreneurship proposals.The first Social Business meeting was a successful experience that attracted the attention of .....

On February 12, 2018, the Rector’s agreement created by the Yunus Center for Social Business and welfare of the Autonomous University of Baja California was published in the University Rules, which gives it an academic personality as a dependent body of the Faculty of Economics and International Relations, and replaces what was known since 2006 as the Center for Research, Assistance, and Tea.....

From November 8 to 9, 2017, we participated in the "5th Social Business Academia Conference" held at the same facilities of "CITÉ UNIVERITAIRE DE PARIS", where we had the opportunity to attend four workshops. Thanks to this, it was possible to share programs, success stories, and good practices in social innovation projects around the world. Therefore, UABC-Yunus Centre presented the paper .....

From November 6 to 7, 2017, we participated in "Global Social Business Summit 2017" held at the facilities of "CITÉ UNIVERITAIRE DE PARIS", where we had the opportunity to attend seven plenary sessions. Thanks to this, it was possible to share experiences and learning with academics, activists, entrepreneurs, and public policy makers from different nations, in research, assistance and socia.....

On October 24 and 25, 2017, we visited the “CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL BUSINESS" of California State University, Channel Islands campus, United States, where we participated in the "Introduction to Social Business" course of minor in social business, exposing the research-action work that has been done in the state of Baja California, through activities such as professional practices an.....

On July 28, 2017, in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Rector Juan Manuel Ocegueda and Prof. Muhammad Yunus, signed the collaboration agreement between Yunus Centre for the establishment of Yunus Centre for social business and welfare of the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC-Yunus Centre). This agreement was signed within the framework of "SOCIAL BUSINESS DAY 2017", attended by a delegat.....