Peter Vandor creates Social Impact Award to find out if there are any social entrepreneurs in Austria. After finding a few, the first-ever award is won by Project-E, a vocational school for orphan girls in Ethiopia.

Social Impact Award steps outside of Austria. With the support of Impact Hub Prague & Ropot, the program is brought to the Czech Republic and Romania.

Now active in 10 countries across Europe, SIA supports over 4000 social entrepreneurs. The managing team fast-tracks the development of the incubation and community phases of the program.

The first SIA Summit takes place in Vienna, gathering winners of incubations across the world.

SIA reaches over 6000 young social entrepreneurs across 20 countries across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The incubation is redesigned to increase its focus on mentoring and prototyping.

The global COVID-19 pandemic strikes around the globe. SIA adapts its entire program to online formats and helps thousands of social entrepreneurs put social innovation at the core of the post-pandemic recovery.

As COVID-19 restrictions ease, in-person SIA gatherings slowly return. SIA expands to four new countries: Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

SIA embraces a hybrid approach around the world, and successfully runs 18 programs in times of war, conflict, and crisis. 160 winners and alumni gather in Vienna, Austria for the first SIA Summit since the pandemic, and the largest one in SIA history.