University Courses on Social Banking

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University Courses on Social Banking

• INAISE Conference

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University Courses on Social Banking

• Vision and central idea
• Project implementation steps
• Project objectives
• Formal structure of the Institute for Social
  Banking

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Vision and central idea

• Opening up the successful practice of
  social-ecological banking to education, research
  and academic discourse
• Creation of university courses and relevant
  research projects on social, ecological, ethical
  banking
• Enabling students to shape and further financial
  services and organisations in social-ecological
  banking on their own.

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Implementation steps of the project

• Inquiry
• members of INAISE and Febea
• Preliminary research
• Review best practice of publications and
  research projects.

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Implementation steps of the project

• Development of different university courses
• Intensive course (e.g. Summer School)
• Optional subjects in undergraduate
  courses/bachelors courses of economics
• Job related masters course, practice-based

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Project objectives

• Target groups
• Aims and methods of the university courses
• Educational challenges

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Project Objectives

• Target groups for all courses
• Present and future employees of social banks and
  financial organisations
• Employees of conventional banks
• Employees of social-ecological banks and
  microfinance institutions in developing nations
• Interested people from other related fields.

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Aims and Methods

• All courses will follow several principals
• They are international
• The spoken language will be English
• Strong emphasis on practical application
• Combination of teaching and independent study
  modules
• Implementation in co-operation with established
  universities.

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Educational challenges

• Better understanding of the relationship between
  banking/finance and social/environmental issues
• Development and phrase their own values, putting
  them into relation towards others (e.g. current
  monetary and economic theories, present
  practice)
• Learning about social banking (roots, values,
  approaches, methods, tools, impact)
• Understanding developments in mainstream banking
• Managing a primarily values driven organisation.

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Institute for Social BankingTraining and Research

• Independent Institute
• The project group
• Frans de Clerk, Advisor to the Executive, Triodos
  Bank. Lecturer at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management
  School
• Julian Kühn, Gemeinnützige Treuhandstelle
• Dr. A. Massmann, Gemeinnützige Treuhandstelle

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Institute for Social BankingTraining and Research

• Developed in cooperation and supported by the
• following banks/foundations
• Alternative Bank Schweiz, Switzerland
• Banca Etica, Italy
• Freie Gemeinschaftsbank BCL,Switzerland
• Cultura Sparebank, Norway
• GLS Gemeinschaftsbank,Germany
• La Nef, France
• Merkur, Denmark
• Triodos, Netherland/UK/Belgium/Spain
• Gemeinnützige Treuhandstelle, Germany
• Evidenz Stiftung, Switzerland.

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University Courses on Social Banking

• Julian Kühn
• Institute for Social Banking
• c/o Gemeinnützige Treuhandstelle
• Oskar-Hoffmann-Straße 25
• 44789 Bochum
• mobil.kuehn_at_gls.de