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Social Entrepreneurship Incubator (SEI)!

CREATE IMPACT TO SOCIETY

Win $10,000 seed funding and bring your ideas to life!

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Why Join?

If you are a NUS student with innovative ideas to improve society and seeking the opportunity to bring them to life, this is the programme for you! You will have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow NUS students, form dynamic teams, and develop innovative solutions to drive positive social change.

Join the SEI Pitch Competition to pitch your ideas to our panel of judges. The winning team will receive $10,000 seed fund to kickstart your ideas.

Spearhead your very own social project and make a difference in the cause you stand for!

You have great ideas but don't have a full team yet? Join the SEI Networking Event! Read on for more information.

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About the SEI

How did the SEI come about?

The former residents of Normanton Park share NUS FASS' vision of bettering our society and generously set up the SEI (previously known as the Social Incubator Programme (SIP))  with the proceeds from the en bloc sale of the Normanton Park estate. This creates an exciting platform for students to innovate and develop social solutions that drive positive impacts on society.

What does the SEI entail?

  • Registration of interest (Sep 2024)
  • Networking session (8 Oct 2024)
  • Submission of teams and indication of Pitch Competition proposal topic (Oct 2024)
  • Submission of proposal (Dec 2024)
  • Shortlist of Teams (Jan 2025)
  • Pitch Competition (Feb 2025)

Who can join?

This programme is open to ALL current NUS students. You just need to have at least 1 FASS student in the main committee of your team. No prior experience in pitch competition is required.

Join us for the Networking Session on 8 October 2024 to network, find teammates and/or get to know more about the programme.

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Join the SEI Networking Event

Looking for like-minded people to collaborate with to bring your ideas to life? Or are questions about SEI buzzing in your mind? No worries, we've got you!

Join the SEI Networking Event on 8 October 2024 (Tue) at 6pm– a place to connect, collaborate, and find your dream team through exciting activities and bond over great food! This is the perfect recipe for creating meaningful connections and step closer to realizing your social entrepreneurship initiative and solutions!

More details will be shared via email after you register your interest for SEI.

For those who are interested but unable to join us for the SEI Networking event, please contact Melissa at kylim@nus.edu.sg so that we can share the contact of those who have attended the networking event with you.

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About the SEI Pitch Competition

This is the platform for you and your team to pitch your social entrepreneurship initiative and solutions. Submit your proposal and the shortlisted teams will be invited to pitch for the $10,000 seed fund.

A broad pitch scope is offered to provide a wide latitude for your solutioning to help the vulnerable communities.

Click here to submit your proposal

*FASS students will receive 40 points for your Career Compass Module in the academic year upon successful submission of your proposal for the Pitch Competition.

Pitch Topic

Impactful social innovations/social practices that aim to meet social needs in a better way than the existing solutions in any of the following areas: healthcare, active aging, at-risk youth, mental wellness, family care, persons with disabilities, and vulnerable communities.

The proposal criteria will be shared via email after registration.

Judging Criteria

A panel of judges will assess the proposal submissions and shortlist the eligible teams* for the Pitch Competition. The proposal and Pitch Competition will be assessed based on the following criteria:

  • Objective
  • Social Impact
  • Creativity and Innovativeness
  • Scalability
  • Sustainability

* Team must be a founder/co-founder led team

Prize

The winning team of the Pitch Competition will receive $10,000 seed funding* and mentorship** to bring your ideas to reality in the next 1 year!

* Seed funding will be disbursed in two tranches upon meeting of reporting requirements

** Team is expected to fulfill one kick-off mentoring session and at least 4 mentoring sessions in the 1-year period

Frequently Asked Questions

SEI brings a platform for NUS students to form multi-disciplinary teams and pitch their innovative ideas to improve social issues and drive positive change. On top of receiving $10,000 seed fund, the winning team will also receive mentorship to guide them towards bringing the idea to life.

The SEI Networking Event aims to connect like-minded NUS students interested in social entrepreneurship or projects. If you have an impactful social innovation and still seeking for people to team up with, this event will provide you with the opportunity to find your potential teammates through fun activities and food! Even if you already have a team, this event provides a platform for you to get to know each other better.

The SEI Networking Event is on 8 October 2024, Tuesday evening. Further details will be sent via email to registered participants.

It is recommend for your main committee team size to be 4-6 members so that you can have one person to take care of certain aspects. Students from different years of study and faculties can team up as long as at least one FASS student is on your main committee. You may have sub-committees to support your project.

Yes! In fact, we welcome multi-disciplinary teams to bring a wider dimension of skills and ideas to the projects.

Additionally, FASS students who successfully submit a proposal for the Pitch Competition will earn 40 points towards their Career Compass Module for the academic year.

Final year students can participate in this programme if they form a team with any NUS students who are from the lower years. As the winning team will be given seed funding and mentorship in the next one year to carry out their project, we want to ensure that there will still be existing students to see through the programme.

We are looking for impactful social innovations/practices that aim to meet social needs in a better way than the existing solutions in any of the following areas of healthcare, active aging, at-risk youth, mental wellness, family care, persons with disabilities, and vulnerable communities.

Absolutely! You are welcome to submit your proposal if your ideas address social needs effectively not in the above listed. We encourage a wide range of innovative social solutions.

A founder or co-founder led team refers to a group within a company or startup that is primarily guided and managed by the original

The Pitch Competition allows you to pitch your social ideas to a panel of judges. The winning team will be awarded $10,000 seed funding, along with mentorship to bring the ideas to reality.

The seed fund will have to be used within the following 12 months after the 1st dispensing of the funds.

Still have questions? Contact Melissa Lim at kylim@nus.edu.sg

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