Presentation of Pauline Vergaeghe at the Inspiration Days at Brussels Business School. The GoYoung Project is an educational tool and documentary film profiling young social entrepreneurs around the world. GoYoung is a project that was originally launched by three Belgian students who decided to travel the world to shoot a documentary on social entrepreneurs under the age of 30.

1. Gaëlle Blondeau-Pauline Verhaeghe
GoYoung

2. What is the Inspiration
Days
"Inspiration Days" is a project,
initiated by the Positive
Entrepreneurs Network, to promote
social entrepreneurship in Business
Schools.

3. Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative
solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They
are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues
and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.
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Social entrepreneurship is the use of business to serve
social change.
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4. Discover Social Entrepreneurs
around the world

5. Gaëlle Blondeau
• Co-founder @GoYoung
• HIECS
• Film director of the documentary

6. Pauline Verhaeghe
• Co-founder @GoYoung
• History, European Studies
•Interviewer for the documentary

7. GoYoung
Non-profit (founded in 2011, Brussels)
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Educational tool and documentary film profiling young social
entrepreneurs from around the world
Missions:
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Inspire the youth - documentary is a testimony of the success of social
entrepreneurship around the world
Provide interesting teaching material - to provide professors with a
DVD to support their entrepreneurship classes and with which students
can identify

8. A need to see the world
Do something meaningful – Not solely tourism - share
our experience
Passionate about social entrepreneurship
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9. Our Approach
Research & Finance
Shooting trip
Post-production &
Analysis phase

10. Research
Research:
Various Organizations- Networks – Foundations –
Business Schools – Media
Relevant questionnaire - people involved in the field – LSE research partnership

11. Finance
Finance:
Corporate sponsors
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Equipment sponsorship
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Participative loan from the Foundation of the
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Bank Degroof

12. Shooting Trip
Shooting trip
45 interviews
16 countries
8 Hard drives with more than
100 hours of footage
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13. Post-production
Post-production:
Selection of the 15 most interesting cases
Analysis of their business model
Online platform
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14. 3 main partnerships:
Partnership with Ashoka
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Academic partnerships
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Financial partnerships
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15. Spreading the word (marketing):

16. Conclusion
•Examples of Social Entrepreneurs around the
world: the GoYoung DVD