SUMMIT TOPIC:
Promotion Ceremony: Honorary Affiliated Scientific Fellow
Certificate Ceremony & Graduation Ceremony
Keynote Speaker
Summit Program
10:55: Arrival and registration.
11:00: Opening Address:
Chair of Summit Prof. Dr. Jan-Urban Sandal
11:15: Promotion: Topic: “Affiliated Honorary Research Fellow 4 years program fulfillment scientific program - Promotion for the title of Patron of Philosophy”
11:30: Certificate Ceremony: Topic: “Certificate Ceremony for International
Examination Committee”
11:40: Certificate Ceremony: Topic: “Certificate Ceremony for Fil. Dr. Jan-U. Sandal Faculty of Science Committee”
11:45 Raj Kumar KC: Topic: “Impact on Nepal’s FDI. Introducing Affiliated
Honorary Research Fellow”
Conversation, Q/A.
12:30: Oleksandra Makarenko: Topic: “The power of social entrepreneurship:
reviving ghost towns”
Conversation, Q/A.
13:15: Denys Halushka: Topic: “Social Entrepreneurship 2.0: How Artificial
Intelligence is Transforming Approaches to Solving Social Problems and Its Legal Regulation”
Conversation, Q/A.
14:00: End of the 99th Summit.
SUMMIT HOST, KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND CHAIR:
Nadina Helen Bakos is an Honorary Research Fellow at Fil. Dr. Jan-U. Sandal Institute. She has a B.A from NISS, Norway. She has studied social entrepreneurship in Scandinavia since 2009. Her thesis "Social Entrepreneurship in Scandinavia" examines the scientific, political, and practical approach to social entrepreneurship in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
Topic: “Patron of Philosophy Promotion”
Raj Kumar KC from Nepal. He completed his PhD in Trade Management from Tribhuvan University in 2023. As a research scholar, he is particularly interested in the fields of trade economics, public policy, marketing, governance, and political economy. Currently, he serves as a visiting faculty member at Tribhuvan University, School of Management, and Faculty of Management, as well as at the Management Department of Nepal Open University.
Before embarking on his PhD journey in 2018, he worked as the Executive Editor of The Rising Nepal, Nepal’s national English daily, and as the Feature Editor for Republica English daily. In addition to teaching and research, he is also passionate about literature.
“The reason I joined the Fil. Dr. Jan-U. Sandal Institute is to deepen my understanding of various aspects of social sciences and to engage in impactful research. I am proud to be associated with this prestigious organization”.
Topic: “Impact on Nepal’s FDI. Introducing Affiliated Honorary Research Fellow”
Oleksandra Makarenko, ? 1st year Master's student at the Department of International Economic Relations and European Integration of the Polissia National University (Zhytomyr, Ukraine).
She is an exchange scholar at Fil. Dr. Jan-U. Sandal Institute (Oslo, Norway) 17-25 January (2025).
In 2025, she graduated from The Social Entrepreneur School IBS (Innovation, Business and Society) at Fil. Dr. Jan-U. Sandal Institute.
Oleksandra Makarenko is conducting independent research in the field of social entrepreneurship with the support of Prof. Dr. Jan-Urban Sandal as her supervisor.
Topic: “The power of social entrepreneurship: reviving ghost towns”
Denys Halushka, is a bachelor's student at the Chernihiv Polytechnic University, majoring in Law, an active participant in student scientific and practical conferences, and has also completed:
Social Entrepreneur School IBS by Fil. Dr. Jan-U. Sandal Institute (2024).
Master's degree in Entrepreneurship and Trade, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences (2024).
Bachelor’s degree in marketing, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences (2023).
During the exchange program at Sandal Institute Exchange, he has been working on a scientific article that will explore new opportunities for neural networks for social entrepreneurs and their legal regulation.
Topic: “Social Entrepreneurship 2.0: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Approaches to Solving Social Problems and Its Legal Regulation”
Fil. Dr. Jan-U. Sandal Institute
Fil. Dr. Jan-Urban Sandal is the founder and chair of Summit in Social Entrepreneurship and the Social Entrepreneur School IBS. Professor Fil. Dr Jan-Urban Sandal is Professor Chair of Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship at Joseph A. Schumpeter Centre for Economic Research of Yuriy Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University. Prof. Dr. Jan-Urban Sandal is Honorary Professor at Chernihiv Polytechnic National University and Honorary Senior Fellow of Science Technology and Training OMEGA Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam, and doctor honoris causa at Alytaus Kolegija university of Applied Sciences, Lithuania. Prof. Fil. Dr Sandal also lectures and conducts master classes at universities across the world and collaborates with University of Southern California on Internship program for Norwegian students and social entrepreneurs. Fil. Dr. Jan-U. Sandal Institute’s international university network includes now app. 85 000 students and 20 000 faculty members and staff and offer participants full access to activities sanctioned by the agreements regardless of race, color, sex, religion, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or national origin. The agreements secure students and faculty members access to international independent science and dynamic innovative pedagogy and an extended study and scientific activity to seminar and course participants connected to Fil. Dr. Jan-U. Sandal Institute in Norway and globally. Fil. Dr. Jan-U. Sandal Institute offers a four-year Affiliated Honorary Research Program and APEX Honorary Scientific Fellowship Four Years Full Scientific Program.
Målgruppe for kurset
Forskere, forskerstuderende, formidlere, forelesere, undervisere, studenter, kursdeltakere, praktikere, gründere, sosialentreprenører, politikere, embetsmenn, journalister, eiere, ledere og ansatte i alle virksomhetsområder og bransjer med interesse for og/eller tilknytting til faget.