Welcome to TCU SISU
Thanlyin Co-operative University (TCU) created the SISU as a specific project and as an incubator. The SISU was officially launched on November 2017 and is located at Uttara Estate, TCU. The main activities of the SISU at TCU are operating as a research center for social innovation, accelerating project, providing tools for professors/classes to foster social innovation and acting as an interface between the universities, society, and surrounding communities.
TCU SISU provide co-working space for students and community meetings, talks and exhibitions related to innovation, front desk where users have access to generic information regarding SISU, Technological Exploration space equipped with computers, projectors, sewing machines and classroom for lectures, talks and other forms of workshop.
The specific objectives of the SISU are to foster social innovation as an integral part in the institutional activities in knowledge transfer and encourage a university- society engagement with local communities and in particular disadvantaged groups through a variety of means: new social enterprise, new participative and collaborative projects, new business model such as micro credit, collection of data on social issues and solutions, new initiatives for the communities.
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Seminar on Social Innovation and Social Enterprises
On 15.2.2018, TCU SISU Team conducted the seminar on social innovation and social enterprise to share the social innovation ideas and social enterprise experience of social innovators in Myanmar. On the event, Rector Prof. Dr. Yi Yi Win (manager of the SISU team)...
Sharing Knowledge on Youth Development
On 24.1.2018, TCU SISU Team conducted the knowledge sharing session on youth development to students of TCU. On the event, Pro-Rector U Oo Tin Thein delivered welcoming speech to audiences. Then, the students who participated ASEAN-Japan Co-operation project for HRD...
Sharing about Impact Connect by CU SISU
Co-operative University SISU team conducted the sharing session on Impact Connect Social Innoviation Studios. The session was attended by 300 students from Co-operative University,...
Study tour to Social Enterprises in Myanmar
Seminar on Introducing activities of Myanmar Young Entrepreneurs Association & Developing Social Enterprise Ecosystem in Myanmar
This seminar was conducted by CU SISU on 3/08/2017. Three hundred participants attended this...