BUFSIE comes as a response to all that aiming towards building the universities of the future by assisting educators to firmly embed Social Innovation Education (SIE) into their culture and teaching practices and as an extension empower students with a mixture of social, entrepreneurial and active citizenship competences essential for thriving in the 21st century. SIE is a collaborative and collective educational model for empowering students to become the changemakers of tomorrow and is situated in the intersection of entrepreneurship education and active citizenship.

BUFSIE will thus scale up the novel educational pedagogy of SIE and transfer it to the higher education level, assisting in this way European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to boost the social, entrepreneurial and civic competences of their students while at the same time, enhance teachers’ professional development by engaging them into an innovative set of teaching and learning activities. For that to be achieved, BUFSIE puts at its core the value creation approach, leveraging in this way the full potential of SIE whereby students from different academic disciplines are empowered and equipped with social and entrepreneurial competences developing thus a purpose that is conducive towards integrating and embedding SIE within HEIs following a value creation instead of a venture creation approach, where students learn to cooperate with each other towards collectively achieving common goals and driving change.