Sustainable Development Lab is capacity building and exchange program for social entrepreneurs and other civil society actors from Germany, Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. The program is aimed at social, environmental and civic changes for sustainable development, especially tackling inequalities (SDG10), promoting innovation and digitalization for better education (SDG4 and SDG9), raising awareness for responsible consumption, fair and organic production (SDG12 and SDG13), preventing discrimination, human rights violations and increasing transparency of state programs and institutions (SDG16), building partnerships with business, research institutions and civil society organizations for Sustainable development goals (SDG17). Participants get know and discuss best practices and social innovation, learn and share their experience on ideation, pitching, fundraising, storytelling, social marketing, and developing international partnerships. We will visit most-promising social enterprises and civil society initiatives in Germany and Eastern Europe and get know innovative approaches on inclusion, digital instruments for better education, responsible consumption, fair and organic production, antidiscrimination campaigning, preventing human rights violations and boosting international cooperation.

We invite social entrepreneurs, innovators, experts, media and other civil society actors from Germany, Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine to apply for capacity building and exchange program. Applicants must provide social, political or environmental engagement, innovative approach and own expertise.

The program is initiated by the Berlin based NGO Dekabristen e.V. and takes place in cooperation with Center for Sustainable Development: dvor, Social Entrepreneurship Network Deutschland (SEND e.V.), Impact Hub Odessa and Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, ODB Brussels in Minsk, Impact Hub Moscow and Planeta.ru in Russia and Ecovisio in Moldova. Sustainable Development Lab is a part of the Eastern Partnership Program and is financed by German Federal Foreign Office.

We are open for new partnerships with educational, research, business and civil society actors. Please apply your project idea for cooperation and joint events by filling in the form below.