Vision: We believe that scientific insights and education, with a critical viewpoint on social and managerial issues, provide ... a good basis for the further development and wellbeing of humanity. Overcoming the narrow paradigmatic boundaries of the individual academic fields and broadening our horizons in academia on a global scale may help create a better world through education and research. Mission: To provide inspiring courses, conferences, summer schools and open access publication outlets for academic faculty and doctoral students, with a focus on a globalised interdisciplinary research, and multi-perspective approaches in the social and managerial sciences. To disperse and translate current academic research on social issues into practice through open access publication outlets and advisory services to policy makers. In our activities and intra-organizational culture, we embrace and advocate heterogeneity and tolerance, and pay attention to context and environment! We are a social enterprise, excess profits are used to further our programs and outreach to the international academic community. Our fields of operation: • Doctoral courses and symposia on research methodology for PhD students and post-docs and lecturers • Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) studies in research methodology • Certificate series in Data Science and Machine Learning for Research • Doctoral schools and conferences on Social Entrepreneurship and Social Finance • Advances and publications on research methodology • Annual flagship conference : Finance, Risk and Accounting Perspectives (FRAP series) • Interdisciplinary research coordination in the fields of social and managerial sciences • Researcher, lector and doctoral supervisor exchange programs • Digital publication of scientific journals, monographs, books and proceedings • Service and policy advisory on the EU framework for research Horizon 2020 read more