Social entrepreneurship. A word that’s been on my lips more than ever before in the past 5 days. In essence, this very different kind of entrepreneurship is about harnessing an entrepreneurial mindset towards much-needed transformational change. It involves finding innovative, creative solutions to create sustainable systems that trigger social change. But this post isn’t about social entrepreneurship. Future articles will surely shed further light on the matter.

For the last 5 days, I participated in a summer school dedicated to the before-mentioned concept, destined to explain it to more than 20 young men and women, from different parts of Romania and different ethnic backgrounds. That was the official somewhat-cold version of the story.

The rest of the story is far more thrilling. Everything had its part in creating something much more rewarding. The debates about what communities are made of, the story of a 14th century city, the brain-teasing mafia games that lasted well into the night, creativity, new friendships, writing projects, envisioning, and the list goes on and on. It was more than just a briefing, it was more than just a conference or a summer school. It was about functioning with some blurred, hard-to-describe factor that seems to tie a group so tightly. It was about breathing loads of energy, it was about understanding a creative dimension with which you can move mountains. It was about that vibrant, serene, all-surrounding silence.

Note: Thanks for the pics guys. Cheers