A portfolio of courses across Aurora partner universities implements the seizmic approach in practice. These courses emphasise experiential learning and applied engagement, enabling students to work with real societal challenges and develop structured entrepreneurial responses. 

Participating institutions include Copenhagen Business School, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University Federico II of Naples, Université Paris Est Créteil,  
Universität Innsbruck, and others within the Aurora network. Seizmic therefore functions not as a single course but as a distributed educational model embedded across programmes and institutional contexts. 

Through these courses, students engage in challenge analysis, opportunity identification, solution development, and reflection on societal impact as part of their academic learning process. 

The seizmic survey serves as the framework’s competence measurement instrument. It assesses the extent to which courses and programmes contribute to the development of competences in social entrepreneurship and innovation. 

Students complete the survey before and after participation in a course. The instrument introduces a defined set of capability areas related to value creation, collaboration, ethical reflection, and entrepreneurial action. Results provide educators and programme leaders with structured data on perceived competence development. 

By linking experiential learning with systematic evaluation, the survey supports reflective curriculum design, quality enhancement, and institutional documentation within the Aurora Competence Framework. 

The seizmic APP is a digital learning platform that guides students through the structured development of social business models. Integrated into university courses, it supports collaborative and project based learning processes. 

Students work with problem framing, stakeholder engagement, value creation logic, and implementation strategy. The APP provides a structured environment for iterative development and allows educators to monitor progress and provide feedback. 

In combination with seizmic courses and the survey, the APP strengthens the practical dimension of competence development and translates theoretical reflection into structured entrepreneurial action. 

The seizmic awards recognise outstanding social business models developed within seizmic affiliated courses. The awards highlight projects that demonstrate societal relevance, structured impact logic, and innovative thinking. 

By creating visibility for student initiatives, the awards reinforce the connection between education and societal engagement. They contribute to strengthening the public profile of social entrepreneurship education within Aurora and encourage students to pursue their ideas beyond the classroom context. 

The seizmic community brings together educators, researchers, and practitioners engaged in social entrepreneurship and innovation. Supported by Aurora institutions, the community facilitates exchange of pedagogical practices, collaborative curriculum development, joint research initiatives, and shared events. 

This networked structure ensures continuity beyond individual courses and projects. It strengthens cross institutional dialogue and contributes to the long term development of social entrepreneurship education within the alliance. 

The seizmic Doctoral Network, funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), is an interdisciplinary research and training initiative that brings together universities, non-academic partners, and societal actors across Europe. Its core mission is to train a new generation of researchers in social entrepreneurship and innovation, with a specific focus on understanding and enabling the scaling of social enterprises and their societal impact. 

The network advances research across four interconnected areas—social business model design and replication, impact investing and financing mechanisms, education and competencies for scaling, and digital ecosystems and technological innovation, including the role of artificial intelligence—each contributing to a comprehensive understanding of how social enterprises can grow, replicate, and sustain their impact across different contexts. 

By integrating academic research with practical engagement, seizmic fosters collaboration between scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. In doing so, it aims to generate actionable knowledge and tools that support the effective scaling of social innovation, ultimately contributing to more inclusive and sustainable societal transformation. 

Seizmic stories is a podcast where researchers and practitioners talk about their work and what it actually means in practice. It looks at topics like social entrepreneurship, impact, and innovation, while also sharing the real experiences, questions, and motivations behind the research.