On the last November 17thprofessor Yunus met some of the students of the Yunus Social Business Centre Barcelona, a network formed by 9 different universities from Barcelonathat promote the studies of Social Businesses and Social Economy. Students from UniversitatPompeuFabra, Universitat de Barcelona, UniversitatAutònoma de Barcelona, UniversitatPolitècnica de Catalunya, UniversitatInternacional de Catalunya, UniversitatOberta de Catalunya, UniversitatAbat Oliva CEU, EADA Business School and La Salle- Ramon Llull joined the event.
Laia Orozco, alumni from UPF University, hosted the meeting that took place in this same university. ProfessorYunusintroduced the three zeros concept to the students using the momentum to introduce his book A World of Three Zeros as well. He alsotalked about the importance of the universities in the societyand the role they have in motivating the students to become social entrepreneurs instead of job seekers.The students were very interested in how the microcredits system work and how he came up with this idea and made it work. At the end the students had time to ask and share opinions with the professor about the need of social entrepreneurs. After the meeting, professor Yunus visited the building and its special library.
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