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25.01.2022 We're very proud of our RARE teams this semester. They have persevered with their research, engagement and teamwork across multiple timezones, managing multiple platforms to deliver outstanding reports for our three projects - BackTrack Youth Works Black Duck Foods and City of Sydney City Farm. Here's one of our Backtrack teams collaborating on their final pitch! Well done to Sachin and team. ... Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Discipline #socialenterprise

24.01.2022 Chilling reading. Some truth-telling from Raoni Metuktire, chief of the Indigenous Brazilian Kayapó people. https://loom.ly/BRmwkao

23.01.2022 RARE has been gearing up for a year of fantastic projects working with some of Austrtalia's most inspiring and entrepreneurial social enterprises. We're very pleased to announce the first of three RARE projects in semester one will be with BackTrack Youth Works. Our students will be looking into scaling employment and training opportunities for at risk youth. We're also so thrilled for Bernie Shakeshaft being nominated for Australian of the year! Best of luck, Bernie!... You can view the video released on Bernie here:

22.01.2022 Our Eden RARE team discussing the Bundian Way track with author of "ON TRACK Searching out the Bundian Way", John Blay and CEO of Two-Fold Aboriginal Corp, Chris Bird. Lots of great insights! #action research #socialenterprise Indigenousbusiness

22.01.2022 Team THANH NGUYEN Our third RARE team is working with Thanh Nguyen, a local hair salon training and employing members of the deaf community. These community member often go back to their home towns and open their own salons - a fantastic impact story. Our team is working on a two year scalability plan to increase the local customer base through marketing and partnerships and empower and assist trainees during their time in Hanoi.

19.01.2022 This week we kicked off the RARE year with our Vietnam intensive unit! 16 cross faculty students will be working with 4 inspirational Vietnamese social enterprises which we will showcase in the coming days. Our students here getting an introduction by leading academics and practitioners in the Vietnamese Social Enterprise eco-system... An exciting two weeks ahead!

19.01.2022 Our four RARE Vietnam teams pitched extremely well at our final pitch event at Vietnam National University last week. They outlined their research findings, identified problems and linked these with practical and implementable strategies and solutions. They fielded tricky questions from our audience which included top practitioners and consultants, delegates from DFAT, the Australian Embassy in Vietnam, Austrade, VNU and the wider #socialenterprise ecosystem in Hanoi.... They did us very proud indeed. We're looking forward to handing over four very useful reports to the enterprises next week. University of Sydney Business School Thuy Linh Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Discipline

18.01.2022 Our Eden RARE team learning local stories and artefacts from local Yuin guide Nathan, together with a cohort of arts academics and students from ANU. #actionresearch #socialenterprise #socialentrepreneurship #RAREprogram

15.01.2022 RARE Vietnam - Team TASA. TASA take agricultural waste and turn it into high grade fertiliser. Our RARE team are working on a marketing and distribution plan to increase sales through partnerships with local agents and farmers. Here's our team visiting Tasa's facilities this week.

13.01.2022 Wiradjuri Elder and Associate Lecturer, Percy Knight is giving two special lectures on Indigenous Australia to our postgraduate social entrepreneurship students this semester - part of ensuring our students have a sense of history and context when working with Indigenous organisations and communities as part of the RARE Program.

13.01.2022 Team HAHN SILK This social enterprise is working to restoring Nam Cao traditional weaving village, bringing new jobs and opportunities for more than 100 households. Our RARE team are working on a marketing and partnerships plan to reach a wider domestic and international audience.

11.01.2022 Fantastic work and progress being made by one of our RARE partners, Black Duck Foods! We may even have some very exciting new projects in the works for 2021 in collaboration with our Narrabri campus. #Indigenousagriculture #Indigenousbusiness #socialenterprises

11.01.2022 Great questions and comments coming from our Vietnam National University (VNU) students at last night's social impact and informal pitch session. Fantastic to be continuing this great collaboration!

11.01.2022 TEAM VINH HA. Our fourth and final RARE team in our Vietnam unit are working with Vinh Ha, a social enterprise producing and distributing clean, safe and certified vegetables and contributing to the agricultural development of the Phu Xuyen area. Our team are working on a B2C model to expand sales to Vietnamese households and small businesses.... #socialenterprise #socialbusinessvietnam #farmingvietnam #safeproduce #vietgap

10.01.2022 One of our RARE Program partners, the Mogo Local Aboriginal Land Council has been very severely affected by the recent South Coast fires. Please get behind this campaign to raise much needed funds! #australiafires #mogofires #mogo #australiaburning #australiabushfires

07.01.2022 Hear from Bruce Pascoe about his aspirations for Back Duck Foods: the Indigenous social enterprise growing and commercialising the produce and practices discussed in his award winning book Dark Emu. Our RARE students have been collaborating with Black Duck Foods this semester, create strategies for brand awareness, corporate and philanthropic partnerships and ecommerce.

06.01.2022 We're very pleased to share with you our third and final RARE "local" project for semester 1 with City of Sydney's "City Farm" at St Peters. Sydney City Farm is an urban agricultural project designed to bring communities together around sustainable farming and food practices. Our RARE students will be working on suitable education, volunteer and sponsorship programs and community membership models with a view to the farm being a self sustaining community owned enterprise in t...he future. University of Sydney Business School #socialenterprise #rareprogram #usyd #universityofsydney #urbanfarming #cityfarm #sydneycityfarm

06.01.2022 Our Mogo RARE team receiving a smoking ceremony and welcome to country by Adam Nye (junior) and the local ranger team

02.01.2022 This semester, our postgraduate RARE teams will be working with Koori Kulcha Experience led by the phenomenal Marie Barbaric and Co. Amongst other things, they will be looking into opportunities presented by the new COVID era and how to redesign current offerings to maintain and maximise social impact. https://www.koorikulchaexperience.com.au/

02.01.2022 We're pleased to announce the 2nd of three brand new RARE Projects for semester 1 is with Black Duck Foods, the social venture owned by award winning Indigenous writer Bruce Pascoe. Black Duck Foods' mission is to re-develop traditional food growing and country management processes for the economic benefit of Indigenous Australians. The enterprise will commercialise some of the agricultural practices discussed in Bruce's award winning book Dark Emu. Our RARE Social Entrepreneurship students will be working on internal capacity building, mapping partnership opportunities and renewable energy plans for the 50Ha site at Mallacoota, VIC.

02.01.2022 Read about our teaching innovation, keeping engaged Indigenous project work happening during COVID.

02.01.2022 Last week we hosted our Eden RARE partners, BJ Cruse, Les Kosez and Mark Bateman from the Eden Land Council and Wolf Peak tourism. We were able to lunch with Lisa Jackson Pulvar our new Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous, amongst other special university of Sydney guests, followed by the RARE final pitches in the evening. This semester our postgraduate RARE teams have been working on strategies for cultural tourism along the Bundian Way, one of Australia's oldest and most historic Indigenous walking trails and trading routes which is now under further development.

01.01.2022 Our RARE students learning from the best tonight at our mentoring session: Ms Pham Kieu Oanh, top 20 most influential women in Vietnamn listed by Forbes in 2016, a pioneer in the social enterprise sector, Founder and Executive Director of Centre for Social Initiatives Promotions (CSIP), and an Australia Awards alumna. Associate Professor Truong Nam Thang, founder and director of the Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship under NEU; Associate Fellow, Cambridge Centr...e for Social Innovation; Advisory board, British Council South East Asia Social Enterprise Programme and Deputy, Working Group, Entrepreneurship Programme, Ministry of Education and Training. Thank you so much both for your time and efforts mentoring our teams!