Publications
Various publications accompany our commitment and provide information about our work. Brochures, flyers, reports, studies and other publications can be downloaded here free of charge.
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Brochure | Jul, 2016
SAMforSE – A Self-Assessment Manual for Social Entrepreneurs
If you want to know if your organisation or company is doing well, this manual helps you with a comprehensive self-assessment. SAMforSE identifies an organisation’s strengths and successes and also helps to highlight those areas where there is room for improvement to sustain success in the long term.
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Brochure | Jul, 2016
TRIEX – a story of sustainable entrepreneurship
Ana L. Arocena and Ruben Martínez founded TRIEX to improve and optimized waste management in Uruguay. As part of the series “Stories about us – how to tell your business narrative”, an initiative of Siemens Stiftung, social entrepreneurs give insights into the development of their business.
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Brochure | Jul, 2016
The Fabulous Fish Farm
A. Fleming founded a micro fish farm in South Africa, which enables the poorer population to join the sector. As part of the series “Stories about us – how to tell your business narrative”, an initiative of Siemens Stiftung, social entrepreneurs give insights into the development of their business.
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Brochure | Jul, 2016
Focus on Echo Mobile
Jeremy Gordon founded Echo Mobile in Nairobi. The company builds and implements mobile first solutions. As part of the series “Stories about us – how to tell your business narrative”, an initiative of Siemens Stiftung, social entrepreneurs give insights into the development of their business.
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Flyer | Jun, 2016
Experimento in South Africa
Since 2012, the Siemens Stiftung has been working in South Africa with its international education programm Experimento to promote an understanding of science and technology among learners. The flyer outlines the mission and impact of this program.
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Study | Mar, 2016
Entrepreneurial solutions for social challenges
The IRENE|SEE research network has completed its study on the role of social enterprises – the results are presented in this book.
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Report | Sep, 2015
Siemens Stiftung – Annual Report 2014/2015
Join us and our partners in looking back at a year of collaborative project activities and learn more about our commitment to sustainable social development.
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Brochure | Apr, 2015
The social enterprise landscape in developing and emerging countries
The goal of this study is to ground the debate on the opportunities and limits of social enterprises and their ecosystem in four specific countries – Colombia, Mexico, Kenya and South Africa.
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Report | Sep, 2014
Siemens Stiftung – Annual Report 2013/2014
Technology helps solve global challenges, and its full effectiveness is realized when it goes hand in hand with social innovation. Read more in our annual report 2014.
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Brochure | Oct, 2013
Winning solutions of the “empowering people. Award” 2013
Find out here which intelligent solutions emerged as winners of the empowering people. Award. We present the top three winners and the 20 runners-up who impressed us with their practical inventions to empower people in developing regions to improve their living conditions.