June 2020 onwards
1. Regional Active Citizens Social Enterprise facilitators online networking event (2 June): A network of ACSE lecturers in East Asia was built during the refreshing regional training for facilitators in Hanoi in November 2019. The online networking meeting on June is to discuss on ACSE cascade experience and further collaboration between lecturers and universities in Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Korea.
2. Series of webinar for lecturers in the Active Citizens Social Enterprise network is part of a British Council initiative, in collaboration with MOET programme 1665, to support and develop students’ entrepreneurship in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is expected to create an innovative approach for delivering the Active Citizens Social Enterprise training toolkit, which was originally offline. University lecturers will have an excellent opportunity to share their knowledge and strengthen their network.
3. Launch of Social Innovation and Social Enterprise Research and Teaching Landscape country reports: The mapping studies of social innovation and social enterprise in higher education landscapes in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea and Vietnam in 2019–2020 are Baseline Surveys which aim to outline and understand the social innovation and entrepreneurship research and teaching landscape at higher education institutions in those countries.
4. Active Citizens Training of Trainers (ACSE ToT) offline courses, following ten successful ACSE ToT courses, will be organised at National Economics University, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hai Phong University, and Nha Trang University. The TOT courses aim to develop a social innovation mindset and provide social entrepreneurship skills for lecturers, through the Active Citizens methodology. The lecturers will become facilitators who are able to mainstream social entrepreneurship into their university programmes and activities.
5. Global Active Citizens Refreshing Training for facilitators on the new blended learning offer of Active Citizens programme (June): The British Council has been working with master facilitators to add an annex to the current Active Citizen toolkit for facilitators worldwide. The annex is to guide blended learning offer of Active Citizens programme with online activities. The global refreshing training is the opportunity to introduce the annex and receive feedback from worldwide facilitators.