AALTOSOCIALIMPACT MARCH 2010 Networking Social Impact

[WHO WE ARE] Calling you to join Aalto Social Impact (ASI) ASI aims at pursuing a better world through design, business, arts, and sciences. We want to have a real impact through solving social problems, by generating innovative thinking/ideas, and working on action-oriented social impact projects

[MISSION] MISSION To increase social well-being locally and globally through innovations, shared expertise, and new synergy of academia, industry, and society. To affect public agenda, current practices, and policy making through research and projects.

[VISION] VISION Aalto Social Impact (ASI) will become an icon for creating more well-being. ASI and Aalto University will be branding Finnish core values and success factors (e.g. welfare society, caring, education, design) worldwide.

[PRINCIPLES]  Aalto Social Impact principles Increasing social wellbeing 2. Focusing on concrete outcomes 3. Bringing together design, science, society and business 4. Challenging you to share your expertise 5. Welcoming everybody to join

Why do we need to act? [FREE WILL]

[IMPACT]   Focusing on concrete outcomes Complete projects that operate in the real world Aim for objective outcomes and lasting change Help people to grow and tackle new projects by themselves Make further impact possible beyond projects

Aalto Social Impact brings together many operators to deliver social impact [NETWORKING] Aalto Social Impact TKK technology NGOs INDIVIDUALS COMPANIES ORGANIZATIONS INVESTORS PUBLIC SECTOR GLOBAL EXPERTISE ‘Problems to solve’ Expertise Co-operation, CSR PROJECTS RESEARCH STUDIES STARTUPS POSSIBLE OUTCOMES PRODUCTS INDIVIDUALS NGOs AALTO UNIVERSITY Resources Support INFRA

In the end, everybody wins STUDENTS FACULTY COMPANIES AALTO UNIV. • Hands-on practice with real life problems • Empowerment & surpassing oneself • Research & career planning opportunities • Development of multidisciplinary shared expertise • Research opportunities & funding • Improved teaching standards (knowledge building) • Visibility & network • Solving problems with limited resources • Link to latest research & thinking • ‘Social sabbatical’ of professionals to ASI • Good CSR • Increased social impact (giving back to society) • Build brand as social impact university (globally) • Active role in contemporary issues (designing the future) [OUTCOMES] SOCIETY • New solutions implemented • More efficient use of resources • Increased well-being

We need more people who specialize themselves in the impossible. ~ Theodore Roethke ~