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...
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 concept of the ‘sharing economy’ – a world where access to goods and services trumps ownership – now has major traction. The concept is being proved by the success of nu...
Social Polis: Social Platform on Cities and Social Cohesion Social Polis is an open social platform for dialogue between scientific and policy communities as well as civil society organizations and...
The COCOPS project (Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future) seeks to comparatively and quantitatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style reforms in European coun...
Approaches to Research on Social Innovation: Learning from One Another for the Future Last week, I attended a really interesting research seminar hosted by WILCO. The WILCO consortium brought toget...
On June 19th 2012 it was announced that 10 million guest nights had been booked on Airbnb, an online service that matches people seeking short-term accommodation with people who have rooms to rent....
On 24-25 September, researchers, policymakers, social entrepreneurs and other key social innovation actors gathered in Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden to discuss solutions to Europe&...
Social Innovation, Governance and Community Building From Territorial Innovation Models (TIM) to Alternative Models for Local Innovation (ALMOLIN), over the last 15 to 20 years, the European scient...
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...
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...
(Written by Łukasz Gajewski) Our engagement in Working Package 8 of the TEPSIE Project leaded us to find examples of Social Innovation in Central and Eastern Europe. In a case of Eastern Europe it...
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...
Social Innovation and Civic Engagement Research has made seminal contributions to describing the size and scope of the Third Sector, including volunteering as an essential component. However, most ...
Last Wednesday, the INNOSERV team hosted its final workshop in Paris, marking the end of this two year project looking at social services innovations across Europe. This was a great opportunity to ...
In a new collection of essays published by LGiU, the Local Government Information Unit, Jonathan Carr-West argues that English local government is at a crossroads. Funding has been cut and challeng...
Since 2009 Greece has experienced a severe financial recession and the government has adopted austerity measures that have had a severe impact on the lives of citizens. At the same time, we are see...
