Dela Programme

In April 2019, the Dela Accelerator was co-created by IKEA Social Entrepreneurship and Ashoka to support social entrepreneurs and their innovative solutions for solving global challenges.

The story of a leader at IKEA and a Bolivian social entrepreneur who collaborated across continents. Her first day in La Paz, Bolivia, Ann-Sofie Gunnarsson found herself suspended 13,000 feet in the air. Moving along the city’s cable car transit system — the tallest in the world — Ann-Sofie, a...

In our first blog post about the Dela Summit, we wrote about how we hoped that being a part of the gathering would inspire us and how we were hoping to receive guidance on how our dreams can go from idea to action, essentially how to become Changemakers.

Today was the third and last day of the Dela Summit. The day was a time for the Social Entrepreneurs to reflect and get to know each other better. Together we have experienced two fun and hectic days, so therefore today was a chance for all to take a step back, and for the first time since we got...

As one door closes, another opens. Today, the Dela Accelerator went from the strategy phase to the implementation phase. The IKEA Strategy Advisors handed over the work to the IKEA Implementation Advisors, and the work continues between them and the Social Entrepreneurs.

Kim & Linnéa here, reporting live from Delft, the Netherlands! Today has been a hectic and super exciting day. We have met many interesting and inspiring people. We started the day with a welcome meeting where Torbjörn Lööf, CEO of Inter IKEA Group, Åsa Skogström Feldt, Director of IKEA Social...

We’re writing to you with just a few days until we begin our exciting journey to Delft with Ashoka and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship. In this post we will explain more about what is going to happen during the Dela Summit and the people we are looking forward to meeting.

Linnéa and Kim here! We are writing this post because we have gotten the opportunity to participate in the Dela Summit in Delft. From 24-26 October 2019 the Dela Summit will take place in Delft, The Netherlands. We will join the Summit and share everything with you. We will post one blog post a day...

The Dela Summit, 24-26 October, is a key moment in the life of the Dela Accelerator. Here all the moving pieces of the strategic planning experience come together and culminate in a plan for how to increase the impact of the social entrepreneurs.

By backing social entrepreneurs and sharing our combined knowledge, IKEA and Ashoka will contribute to the movement and growth of social entrepreneurship and give the social entrepreneurs a better chance to create, and scale, new long lasting solutions.