This activity was held by Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 12-22 July 2019 in collaboration with the Yunus Center which was the 3rd Batch. Every year it is attended by undergraduate and postgraduate students from all over the world and involves lecturers, academics and practitioners. This activity aims to introduce Social Business as a solution in overcoming social problems. The idea of social business was sparked by Prof. Muhammad Yunus and the founder of Grameen Bank in 1983. This is what led him to receive the Nobel Prize Laureate title. The total quantity of learning from this activity is equal to 3 credits through theory and practice-based learning.
ISBSP 2019 is a series of events designed to introduce Social Business and implement it in the form of a Social Business Project Plan Competition. ISBSP 2019 participants came from Indonesia, Iran, South Africa, India, Somalia, Jordan, South Korea, Iraq, Japan, China and Sri Lanka. During the first 3 days, participants received introductory material from experts in the field of Social Business. This activity is carried out in class in the format of lectures, Focus Group Discussions and Games. On days 4-6, participants begin to form into groups to prepare a Social Business Project Plan. This activity also includes customer surveys and industry visits. At the end of the activity, the participants took part in a Discussion Panel and Social Business Project Plan Competition.
I, Gery Lusiano, as a delegate from Accounting 2017, FEB UNAIR, had the honor of winning 1st place in the 2019 ISBSP Social Business Project Plan Competition. Apart from that, I also succeeded in taking this activity well and was declared to have passed as a participant with the title A+ or 4.00.
