WORLD CAFÉ OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP INSPIRE BY UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA

Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) is one of the grant recipients of the ERASMUS + European Union INSPIRE (Introducing Social Entrepreneurship in Indonesian Higher Education). As one of the activities of INSPIRE, USU carried out world café on 9th February 2019 in the IMT-GT room at USU Central Administration Bureau, Medan Indonesia. The world café methodology is a simple, effective and flexible format for hosting large group dialogue. The purpose of this world café is to facilitate students to produce knowledge, models, best practices and experiences in developing social entrepreneurship that is capable of utilizing information and technology.

The world café program began with welcome and introduction by the USU’s INSPIRE team (Pramio Sembiring, Nelson Siahaan, Agus Harahap). After that followed by a brief presentation about the INSPIRE project ERASMUS+. This world café discusses the processing of community waste in the city of Medan. This theme was chosen because the culture of waste recycling has not been well socialized in Medan city. In addition to that, USU also wants to take part in overcoming the problem of garbage in the city of Medan.

The world café participants consisting of students from different fields of knowledge were divided into five discussion groups. Each group discussed to find a solution to the case study given. With the group discussion method, we invite students to find solutions to waste problems in Medan city by involving all elements of society. The program continued with listening to the presentation of the results of the discussion from each group accompanied by a question and answer session.

The entire event was guided by USU's INSPIRE team.