Projects

Student Battle

Student Battle

The 1% Student Battle challenges student teams to deploy their expertise and skills for social entrepreneurs worldwide. The “100% Color Academy” team won the battle with their plan to create a sustainable small-scale paint factory that can deliver paint for the ambitious plan of Haas & Hahn to paint an entire favela in Rio with art.

The Social Entrepreneurship Summit

The Social Entrepreneurship Summit

The 2019 summit was held in Santa Marta, Colombia, with more than 120 participants, of which 70 presentations from 15 different countries and 30 participants in the fair. Jop Blom was invited as one of the opening keynotes to share his 20 years experience and view on how the academic world can empower social entrepreneurship in their countries.

Chamber of Commerce of Bogota

Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá

As part of this agenda Jop Blom presented a 2-hour keynote on his 20 years of experience as a social entrepreneur and the “impact Accelerator model for purpose driven high performance organizations for sustainable growth and positive impact”. This model is based on 5 key pillars of purpose, sustainability, culture, leadership and employee engagement.

ClimateLaunchpad

Climate Launchpad

As the CLP National Lead for Colombia we were asked to facilitate 2 sessions: one on Partnerships & Funding and one on our impact accelerator model for sustainable growth. During the partnership session we shared our successful approach on partnerships especially focussed on the successful set up on CLP Colombia. Our impact model gathers 2 decades global leadership & entrepreneurship experience, working with thousands of passionate change[..]

Eco Fique

Eco Fique

Eco Fique is a unique, innovative and 100% circular and organic company from Colombia. The extract fibers (4% of the plant) and they use all the other Fique plant’s specific elements to transform them into excellent quality 100% organic fertilizers, fungicides and nematicides. We introduced Eco Fique to various eco-oriented impact investment funds and will[…]

Hass Avocados

Hass Avocados

There is a growing demand for Hass avocados on the European market, and in Colombia this crop can grow almost year-round because of its different climates. While at national level the avocado is seen as a strategic product for export, the country only has a short history in avocado cultivation. We supported them in developing […]

Rockstart Colombia

Rockstart Colombia

Rockstart is a successful global tech start up accelerator from the Netherlands. They give tech start ups a rock-solid support in their first 1000 days. We supported them with their CSR strategy, international partnerships and general support for the succesfull launch in Latin America.