The Social Impact the Social Innovation Academy (SINA) has been able to achieve since 2015:
Impact Reports: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
Awards:
- Ockenden International Prize (2023)
- Tony Hsieh Award (2022)
- Modern Work Award (2022)
- Pan-African Award for Entrepreneurship in Education (2019)
- UNHCR NGO Innovation Award (2018)
Case Studies and Research on SINA:
- SINA, March 2022 – “How the Social Innovation Academy’s freesponsible approach to education and entrepreneurship is creating powerful ripples that impact the lives of its graduates, local communities, and far beyond.”
- Learning by Founding – Social Entrepreneurship Education for Refugees, FII Institute, 2022
- Scaling Social Innovation – The Social Innovation Academy, Roskilde University, 2019, “SINA’s approach has been successful in scaling their model.”
- “From Marginalized Youth to Social Entrepreneurs” – Book Chapter in “Adventures in Reinventing Work, 2021”
A selection of achievements by SINA members and SINA enterprises:
Awards
- Young Global Changers Recoupling Award
- Commonwealth Secretary-General’s Innovation for Sustainable Development Award
- Bayer Social Innovation
- COVID-19 Innovation Prize
- UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award
- AACSB Influential Leader
- Builders of Africa’s Future Award
- Uganda Young Employer of the Year
- Greenpreneurs Achievement Award
- Savvy Prize
- Westerwelle Founder of the Year
- African Innovation Challenge
- SEED Low Carbon Award
- Total Startupper of the Year
- IET Innovation Award
- Women4Women Award
- 2019 Women Stop Hunger Awards
- YE! Young Entrepreneur Award
- Global Bridging Fund
- Queen’s Young Leader’s Award
- African Women Award
- Adamstart Covid-19 Challenge
- Meaningful Business 100
- appsafrica Award
International Participations
- Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa
- Accelerator for Ventures Serving Forcibly Displaced People
- Halcyon Fellowship
- Africa Climate Summit
- Paris Peace Forum, France
- Energy Globe National
- One Young World Summit
- Africa Youth Connekt, Rwanda
- IdeaLab, Nigeria
- DRC Social Innovation Summit
- IKEA Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator
- F-LANE, Germany
- World Bank Annual Meetings, USA
- Africa Talks Jobs Conference, Ethiopia
- G-STIC, Belgium
- GoodFestival, Switzerland
- Bildkorrekturen Conference, Germany
- African Innovation Summit, Rwanda
- Global Innovation Camp, Italy
- Future Jamboree, Poland
- WISE, Qatar
- Responsible Innovation Summit, Ireland
- YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship, Kenya
- MitSprache Conference, Germany
- Social Innovation Summit, Stuttgart, Germany
- Global Art Festival, India
- Pursuit Incubator, East Africa
- Growth Africa, East Africa
Recognition
- UNHCR Innovation Fellowship
- Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award
- Echoing Green Fellowship
- Acumen Fellow
- Lioness of Africa
- COP28 Youth Climate Delegate
- Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders
- Anzisha Fellow
- UNHCR Global Youth Advisory Council
- Ashoka Changemaker
- Westerwelle Foundation Young Founders
- Brave Movement
- Vital Voices Fellow
Media mentions
- CNN
- rfi
- ZDF Auslandsjournal
- Al Jazeera
- Forbes
- BBC
- reuters
- Business Punk
- PBS News Hour
- Pioneer Post
- Global Press Journal
- AJ+
- Bukedde TV, Uganda
- Berliner Morgenpost
- New Vision, Uganda
- EDUSHIFTS –The Future of Education is Now
- Stanford Innovation Review
- kurier, Austria
- Spark TV (Uganda), 3 episodes
- Thueringer Allgemeine, Germany
- CGTN Africa
- zbc, Zimbabwe
- Euronews
- radioeins, Germany
- ECOZONE, Uganda
- iCON Magazine, East Africa
- RTL II News, Germany
- Domradio, Germany
- Daily Monitor, Uganda
- News 18
- Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany
- Modern Ghana
- Many Peaces Magazine
- VICE
- TBT World
- attn
- NTV, Uganda
- AFP News Agency, France
- UBC, Uganda
- CNN Inside Africa