Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change SI-DRIVE extends knowledge about social innovation (SI) in three major directions: • Integrating theories and research methodologies to advanc...
Its official name is ‘Laboratorium Ratownictwa Medycznego i Procedur Medycznych’ (Emergency Medicine and Medical Procedures Laboratory). Such ‘hospital simulator’ is the fir...
The King Baudouin Foundation in association with La Caixa Foundation & UniCredit Foundation presents “Social Innovation in Ageing – The European Award”. The award will recogni...
In March 2013 ResPublica published a new essay collection entitled ‘Making it Mutual: The ownership revolution that Britain needs.’ Within its pages, policy-makers and practitioners cal...
The INNOSERV Consortium is organising a high level expert meeting in Brussels to assess the status quo and identify future challenges, trends and research gaps related to innovation in the social s...
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...
When comparing the structural configuration of Social Economies across Europe, it becomes evident that associations are a significant share of the population. However, people tend to associate asso...
Facing New Challenges: How social innovation contributes to active inclusion 27 November 2012, 10:00-16:00 EESC, 7th floor, Trèves Building, 74, rue de Trèves, 1040 Brussels This SOLI...
Social entrepreneurs as "lead users" for service innovation SELUSI stands on two distinct but synergetic research pillars. One pillar aims at furthering our understanding of emerging soci...
Innovation in the Public Sector PUBLIN was a research project under the EU Fifth Framework Programme. It studied policy learning and technical and administrative innovation in the public sector, an...
Social platform on Innovative Social Services INNOSERV is focusing on identifying the future potential of innovative services including the multifaceted activities of different stakeholders as well...
Growing Inequality and Social Innovation: Alternative Knowledge and Practice in Overcoming Social Exclusion in Europe KATARSIS brought together theorists, researchers and practitioners interested i...
Most people would say they are in favour of creativity in public services, but many have struggled to implement this in practice. As part of the Royal Society of Art's (RSA) ‘Power to Cre...
On the 12th March, Nesta held an event titled 'Collective Intelligence: Evidence based activism in Patients' Organisations'. I was delighted when I saw that Nesta was hosting a discussi...
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 ...
Three pressing social problems and the startups that could solve them. Healthcare costs – Sentrian Long term conditions such as heart disease and diabetes account for fully 70% of the NHS&rsq...;
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 ...
The ALS #icebucketchallenge is thriving and obviously causing some debate in and beyond social media these days. And it goes like this: In front of a camera, a person pours a bucket of ice water ov...
On 19-20 May 2014, the European Commission’s DG Research and DG Employment organized a potentially ground-breaking conference on “social policy innovation”. A mixed audience of ov...
Poverty Reduction in Europe: Social Policy and Innovation (ImPRovE) is an international research project that brings together ten outstanding research institutes and a broad network of researchers ...
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...
What is nudge and what does it have to do with social innovation? Much has been said about how Barack Obama harnessed the power of the social web in his ultimately successful bid for the White Hous...
In Control is a UK based charity that helps local authorities to establish systems that give users financial autonomy over their own care. The charity was a pioneer of the concept of ‘self-di...
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