The next cycle of the Executive Education Program “Project Management for Social Entrepreneurs” developed by the PwC Center for Corporate Social Responsibility at GSOM SPbU is finished.

The program started in 2012. Since the beginning, more than 500 existing and potential social entrepreneurs from various regions of Russia have participated in the program with the financial support from Citi Foundation and JTI Russia. In 2013, the program became the laureate of the “Impulse of Good” award of the Our Future Foundation in the nomination “For the Best Russian Educational Program in Social Entrepreneurship”.

This year, 23 social entrepreneurs, successfully presented their projects on March 15–16, will obtain the official certificates of qualification upgrading. The projects of the participants are aimed at resolving social problems in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, such as supporting pensioners, people with disabilities, drug addicts, people who find themselves in a difficult life situation.