At the beginning of November, we have participated in the “Hello Impact” event which took place in Athens, Greece. This event was the second step towards the launch of the Impact Hub At...
A recurring theme at Social Frontiers was the question of how best to research social innovation. In a session dedicated to discussing this issue, we heard four papers that took distinct approaches...
After a year of planning, Social Frontiers finally arrived last week. The two days were full of great presentations, and discussions from researchers across the world who are focusing on social inn...
Here in the research team at The Young Foundation, we are gearing up for Social Frontiers which takes place this Thursday and Friday. The event, held at Glasgow Caledonian University’s London...
The Greek society after suffering the effects of the economic crisis, started to make its first steps in constructing the foundation of social economy. More and more actions were initiated in order...
Last month I attended an event at The RSA: “Are Service Users The Key To Systems Change?” This featured Dr. Charlie Alcock of MAC-UK in conversation with Chris Wright of Catch-22 and Cl...
Traditional currencies now gain competition from trust-based systems enabled by the internet. According to Rachel Botsman, reputation capital is becoming so important that it will act as a secondar...
Just to promote sustainable city development leaders of Lodz (city in the Central Poland - http://en.uml.lodz.pl/) co-finance activities of non-governmental organizations via Social Innovation Fund...
This blogpost has been written by Lubomir Billy. Before I left Slovakia for my internship in the UK, my family and friends were asking me what I would do there. Learning, gaining contacts and infor...
A few weeks ago I attended TEDxCopenhagen, a one day conference emphasizing the spread of big visions and ideas. My favorite TED talk of the day was Hans Jørgen Wiberg’s talk on micro ...
