February saw the launch of the new Social Innovation: Communities project funded by Horizon 2020 This innovative and exciting project aims to develop an enabling environment for social innovation b...
2015 is the centenary year of the birth of Michael Young (1915-2002), pioneering social scientist, political activist and social innovator. To mark this anniversary, the Young Foundation is hosting...
The ‘Unusual Suspects Festival’ will, this year, be held in Glasgow from 7th-9th October 2015. The event will be bringing together a range of participants from Scotland and around the W...
European Social Innovation Week 2015 will, this year, be held from the 14-18 September 2015 at the Sporrzone in Tilburg, Netherlands. Admission is free but registration is necessary and can be comp...
SI Live is a two-day international event exploring the future of social innovation research, incubation and action. It will bring together leading social innovators, academics and practitioners to ...
In October I visited the Dutch city of Eindhoven for the World Health and Design Forum. Planned in conjunction with Dutch Design Week, the event aimed to boost social innovation and inspire people ...
EMES, in partnership with the Federation of European Renewable Energy Cooperatives, REScoop.eu, organizes this 1st Symposium aiming at encouraging the formation of an international network of schol...
The 6th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) 1-3rd Sept 2014 is an open conference that brings together scholars from around the globe to discuss the role of innovation in so...
Last Tuesday I attended the launch at Nesta of their report ‘Making it big: Strategies for scaling up social innovation’. This report was written by Madeleine Gabriel and aims to help s...
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...