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Academic Director of the Master in Management program at GSOM SPbU Yulia Aray moderated the session Inclusion in Society. Law on quotas as a part of the Interregional meeting of social entrepreneurs, dedicated to the international day of social business.

Associate Professor at the Department of Strategic and International Management and Academic Advisor of the Master in Management program in GSOM SPbU Yulia Aray made a speech at the OSIRIS international educational program and will be the expert at the Demo day, where the program participants will present the results of their work. The program is for the entrepreneurs of the “silver economy” sphere.

During the pandemic, 70% of surveyed social entrepreneurs were able to maintain and increase income from the sale of goods and services, and 85% retained and increased the number of employed personnel. This is shown by the results of joint research by Impact Hub Moscow and experts from the Graduate School of Management SPbU (GSOM SPbU) and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, which was conducted from June 2020 to January 2021 with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation among owners and leaders of social enterprises, as well as at community of experts. The research aimed to identify the changes that have taken place in social entrepreneurship during the pandemic, as well as the strategies and innovations that helped to cope with the crisis and lay the foundation for future growth. The study was carried out in two stages based on the collection of quantitative and qualitative data.

The programme of the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg State University (GSOM SPbU) CEMS Master in International Management, CEMS MIM received a high assessment of the work of the autumn semester 2020 according to the results of a survey of students conducted by the CEMS Alliance.