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At the É��ٳ�-��ܲ�è�� School of Social Innovation, you’ll learn to turn ideas into impact. We pair the human sciences with hands-on practice so you can tackle the problems markets and governments leave behind — inside Canada’s only university school built for this work.

Why study here

Build real solutions for housing, poverty, exclusion and discrimination.
Master tools and methods that make organizations more democratic and more just.
Examine collective action through a human-sciences and management lens.
Become an Atelier member — automatic enrolment in the Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop.

Programs of study

Certificate in Social Innovation
Honours B.A. in Social Innovation
Graduate Diploma in ��ýҕ�l Organizations Development
M.A. in Social Innovation
Ph.D. in Social Innovation

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What you’ll gain

Skills you’ll build

Understand a social problem that neither the state nor the market can address on its own, suggest a concrete solution and test the proposed solution on the ground.
Launch the project, track it and measure results.
Design, implement and conclude your own social innovation project.

Where graduates work

Self-employed by a personal project
Director of a not-for-profit organization
Project manager
Community organizer

Sample courses

Management, Administration and Social Innovation
Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Movements
Ecology and Environmental Justice
Mobilization, Framing and Communication

At SPU, I was able to put my knowledge to good use and also practice what I was learning. In my social innovation program, my relationship with my professors didn’t stop in the classroom, but thanks to the innovation workshop (Atelier), I was able to get their support in carrying out my projects.

Vanessa Murengera

Student, Honours B.A. in Social Innovation