Case Studies

Inspired by the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Muhammed Yunus and his Grameen Bank, Social Development Centre SUS - in cooperation with the Municipality of Aarhus in Denmark – has launched a development project in which socially vulnerable people get professional coaching and take up micro-loans to start a new life as self-employed persons.

A method including multiple perspectives on interventions towards socially vulnerable people – focusing on resources in their personal network.

During the past couple of years Social Development Centre SUS has held four courses in what we call ‘user journalism’. The purpose of inviting socially vulnerable people (users) to a course in journalism is to qualify them to write and create articles based on their life situations.

Social Development Centre SUS in Denmark has several years of experience in involving users when assessing the quality of residences for people with physical or mental disabilities. Among other methods, SUS has developed an evaluation model called ‘KUBI’.

Social Development Centre SUS has developed an IT-based tool, for measuring and developing the degree of user participation and influence in residences for people suffering from mental illness and homelessness (the users). The tool is called:”User Participation Index” and consists of questions concerning nine main themes.

Where Does My Money Go? is another innovative project which aims to promote transparency.

The OHR is a team comprised of organic farmers, health workers, teachers and international medical and graduate students committed to addressing the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS among the remote island communities of Lake Victoria in Western Kenya.

New media installation in Sándor Kőrösi Csoma’s sanctuary.

This is the programme declaration and information about the programme on societal entrepreneurship at the Knowledge Foundation. How we work, what we do and our goal and vision.

The Aravind Eye Care Hospital began as a small clinic of just 11 beds in 1976. Since its establishment is has treated over 2.4 million patients.