WE ARE DONE WHEN:
Helsinki is the #1 place for aspiring impact entrepreneurs, globally.
Wicked is a self-building community promoting impact entrepreneurship. We bring together everyone, from ambitious students to experienced founders, to make Helsinki a vibrant ecosystem for Impact Founders.Impact entrepreneurship is a process of creating measurably better social and environmental conditions by turning a vision into a scalable venture. Disagree? Please challenge our definition.
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Wicked is a self-building community empowering and enabling this generation of founders and pre-founders to go and tackle the world’s most wicked challenges.
Primarily, our activities are directed towards potential future Founders, primarily University students and researchers. Our indirect target group includes early-stage founders, universities, Impact ecosystem players, existing programs such as incubators or accelerators, investors and potentially others.
How did Wicked get started?
Aalto University has sustainability, entrepreneurship and radical creativity as their main focuses. The University of Helsinki has promoted these topics, with emphasis on sustainability, for a long time. Even though there is some activity around the topic on campuses it is quite scattered around in different places. Even though impact entrepre- neurship is a topic and some activities exist, we couldn’t find an existing and thriving impact ecosystem or impact community in the Helsinki area.
How fo you define impact entrepreneurship?
We defne impact entrepreneurship as a process of creating measurably better social and environmental conditions by turning a vision into a scalable venture. We are basing our impact entrepreneurship definition on Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Model.
What do you mean by a self-building community?
We engage our entire community in planning our weekly gathering content and agendas. If you want to bring up a topic, ask a question or present an idea, you are more than welcome to do so! Through discussion we decide what are our collaborative tasks, while we actively encourage and support individuals and groups to do their own projects.Why? Because we believe that an inclusive and diverse range of perspectives results in the best ideas, innovation and results.
Is Wicked a volunteer-led organization?
At the moment, yes. We are currently doing early fundraising in order to compensate for basic board work, which includes administrative and operational duties.
Anyone is free to join our Telegram chat and Discord to get to know us and join our gatherings!
How can I, an organization, support or collaborate with Wicked?
We are always looking to collaborate with organizations If that wish to you support the Wicked mission and want to help us reach our goals, we are more than happy to collaborate. Our activities are run by volunteers. and/or with possible grants. We are open to discuss collaboration on projects, partnerships and funding opportunities.
What is Wicked trying to achieve?
Wicked is making Helsinki the #1 place for aspiring impact entrepreneurs, globally. This means that we want to contribute to making Helsinki such a vibrant, welcoming and supporting impact ecosystem, that it is the best place for one to become an impact founder.three main goals that are:1. Increased amount of impact startups and in effect meaningful careers2. An impact community that unites the university ecosystems, Aalto University and Helsinki University as a part of a greater impact community.3. For daily discourse around entrepreneurship and startups to revolve around using entrepreneurship as a tool for tackling societal and environmental challenges.
