Social Impact Start-Up Academy
The Social Impact Start-Up Academy (SISTAC) connects students, social entrepreneurs, and corporate volunteers to tackle real-world health and food security challenges. Through hands-on action-learning projects, participants help impact-driven start-ups in low- and middle-income countries strengthen their business models, scale their solutions, and improve lives in underserved communities.
Bayer Foundation is a co-founder of the Social Impact Startup Academy (SISTAC). This platform supports students, corporate volunteers and social innovators to develop breakthrough social innovations that address the world’s most pressing issues in health and food security.
The academy is anchored in action-oriented learning formats which are part of different master's Program at the Ingolstadt School of Management (WFI), Purdue University, Leeds University Business School, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, ESCI-UPF in Barcelona, and in Latin America with Universidad Austral, Universidad de los Andes and Tecnológico de Monterrey.
The academy provides a platform for social innovators, master students, and industry experts to work on a desirable future together.
Target Groups of the Social Impact Star-up Academy
- Students enrolled in relevant master's programs at mentioned universities
- Universities that are interested in collaborating with SISTAC
- Professors interested in enrolling their university or are currently working at an already enrolled university
- Early-stage social innovators who have an innovative idea that has a social impact with the potential for global scaling
The number of slots for projects per semester varies with the number of students that enroll in the Master’s program. Typically, it will be 3-5 projects supported by groups of 3-5 students each
conducted between students and social impact startups since 2019
have participated in the academy