On Friday I attended the WILCO final conference which took place in Brussels. The project has generated some real insights and for me personally, identified a number of issues which are worth furth...
The research project Third Sector Impact, which is part of the EU’s seventh framework program, is a collaborative project involving 14 research institutes in Europe. It was launched in Januar...
Its official name is ‘Laboratorium Ratownictwa Medycznego i Procedur Medycznych’ (Emergency Medicine and Medical Procedures Laboratory). Such ‘hospital simulator’ is the fir...
One of interesting projects in Poland is the "Integrated support system of social economy” (in Polish: Zintegrowany system wsparcia ekonomii społecznej, ZSWES) which started in the midd...
This is a blog which explores what co-design looks like in Poland, examining the specific example of participation in a project involving children with complex needs. I have posted the first part o...
Research related to innovation is often associated with technical and technological innovations, i.e. new products and services. Modern socio-economic research has led to the emergence of new forms...
The Theoretical, Empirical and Policy Foundations for Social Innovation in Europe TEPSIE is a research collaboration between six European institutions aimed at understanding the theoretical, empiri...
Welfare innovations at the local level in favour of cohesion The effort to strengthen social cohesion and lower social inequalities has been among Europe’s main policy challenges. Local welfa...
I have just read an article by Krzysztof Wittels entitled “The era of the social capital. Forgotten achievements of Warsaw enterprises 1864-1939” and published at the leading Polish por...
The Polish scientists headed by Professor Krzysztof Tchoń from the Department of Cybernetics and Robotics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, have created a social robot that can communicat...
One of the most known Polish private university, Kozminski University, organize for the first time postgraduate studies on "Social innovation in the economy". The aim of the study is to p...
Nationwide Meeting of Social Economy (NMSC) is organized in Warsaw, Poland on 23 and 24 October, 2014. It is the eight Meeting and, as in the previous editions of NMSC, organizers invite social ent...
The 'Internaional Conference of Social Innovation' is being held at the Lodz University of Technology in mid-June. The aim of the conference is to discuss the latest scientific research and...
Problems of Social Economy and Social Innovation become more and more particular in Poland. As a kind of response to demand for knowledge of that matter School of Public Administration at the Unive...
For the first time in Poland, NESsT and J. P. Morgan are organizing jointly "Competition for Social Enterprise - 2014". The aim of the Competition is to support the development of social ...
“What do pirates, terrorists, computer hackers and inner city gangs have in common with Silicon Valley?” It turns out that the two young ladies' project entitled ‘The Misfit E...
Wroclaw Centre for NGOs Support SECTOR 3 was founded in April 2007. Ii is carried out by the Foundation for the Support of Non-Governmental Organizations UMBRELLA in the form of a public task and i...
Polish social entrepreneurs, encountering barriers in their actions, often thought with envy about their colleagues from other European countries. Paulina Wajszczak acquitted the fifteen errors, ch...
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 was written by Witold Kwasnicki. A new Doctoral Research Scholarship Program, called PhD in "Shipyard” ("PhDo w Stoczni", in Polish) is a joint initiative of The ...
The second Eastern Europe Initiatives Congress (EEIC) will be held in Lublin (Poland), 1-6 October 2013. EEIC is a meeting of the representatives of local governments, central governments, non-gove...
The Foundation for Socio-Economic Initiatives (Fundacja Inicjatyw Społeczno-Ekonomicznych – FISE) is organizing the third edition of the competition for the best social enterprise. Increasin...
