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work project: • Creating ÆREAS - Association for Enactive Research, Education and Application of Sustainopreneurship
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budget More than $10000
project start 1-Oct-2007
project type Individual
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project description ÆREAS is intended to be founded in the Quest to organize increased learning about a newly discovered phenomenon named "Sustainopreneurship".

Three main stakes are believed to be important to organize the increased knowledge about "Business with a Cause", as it can be popularly translated, using other words for the same - or turning the greatest problems in the world found today into the biggest (sustainability) business opportunities.

Thus, three main stakeholders, associated to proliferate this concept are targeted. One group of stakeholders is researchers, one other is educators, and third, but not last - practitioners - the sustainopreneurial teams themselves. Optionally, and optimally, stakeholders can be - and/or can become - all three at the same time, which is possible with the approach "enactive research and learning". Enactive research means that the researcher him/herself initiates an own project and uses that to gain scholarly insights about a phenomenon through auto-ethnography. An introduction to the enactive research approach is found through a link at the Interim Associationhomepage http://www.aereas.nu - beta version. Enactive learning, then, consistently, is another concept proposed for educational environments - "learning about it by doing it".

It is working on a kick-back basis - where the input of all the resources done by the founding members will return in a leverage getting more back than you invested in the first place, where also the knowledge generated will be following the UNESCO directives and recommendations of Open Access (public domain, for free, for the betterment of the world - http://www.unesco.de/openaccess.html?&L=1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access ).

And we are not only talking about financial investments here (that part is relatively small, and work on a co-op think-and-act mode), the immaterial investment dimension is the key to success.

The targeted number of Founding Members before institutionalizing and formalizing the association is following the Dunbar Rule of 150 committed individuals, with target date September 2009 of constituting the organization. Membership fee is set to €100, one time fee. The costs will be covered through other means when the association has been founded and constituted (primarily very picky sponsorship contracts and agreements, together with margins from events). One practical, hands-on, outcome and target is to create a Global Summit at the date of formal constitution, First Sustainopreneurial Summit 2009, targeted for third quarter.

Track record and demands, thus, of the founders are very specific - we are looking for experienced leaders within the field, with strong competencies, commitment and a mixed set of unique capabilities, where the first round will be on invitation-only and by recommendation of the pioneer round of first interim and founding members. Trust is a key word!

Contact the initiator and founder for more details, and for an open conversation and dialogue - focusing one topic: The proliferation and increasing of understanding and knowledge about Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability - 'Sustainopreneurship', and where you can contribute to a common intention of creating an organization with the optimal structure to fulfill its bold intention.

Benefits of being a member is, beyond nurturing the further research of sustainopreneurship, is increased presence and pr for your efforts through various channels;

1. getting to be a featured member at the community Sustainopreneur's Café.
2. blogged at the official blog ÆREAS(i) Blog
3. listed in the ÆREAS(i) web directory
4. getting three hours free individual coaching of all the sustainopreneurial and social media empowerment (identity/personal&business-branding/promotion/networking/collaboration) services i can offer (see all my offerings here on ki-work!)
5. free participation in all future webinars on the above themes (when we have reached 25 in total of both ÆREAS(i) founding members together with Social Enterprise Category Experts here on Ki-work - that's my other project posted here on Ki-work)


if you hear the calling, do sign up at and make a contact through this link http://www.ki-work.com/Abrahamsson with me, alternatively connect with me through this link if you are already signed up at ki-work!

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