How to facilitate interaction between research and public policy: Paolo Rosso"The Public Administration should be a driving force of social innovation, while very often it is a weakening element of social innovation because it does not have sufficient knowledge and skills to take advantage of this social innovation and take it to a more advanced stage. In the framework of the European project Social Innovation Communities (SIC), Sinnergiak Social Innovation (UPV/EHU) organized the Transformative Research session "Youth, employment and precarious work" on Decemb…24 Jan 2018Article Highlights 01 Blog series: Social Innovation and Academia: the why, how and who?02 EUSIC 2018 finalist: ConnecTech03 EUSIC 2018 finalist: GoFundEd04 Digitalisation: What About Women in the New Age of 'Digital Everything‘? Is it possible for social innovations to tackle both the symptoms of social need as well as the root causes that underlie them?Some of the outputs from the work of the SI-DRIVE project on #socialinnovation for #poverty reduct…13 Jun 2018ArticleSupporting social innovation – a guiding model for innovation-promotersThrough their daily support to innovators, innovation-promoters – e.g. innovation offices, incub…13 Jun 2018ArticleOpen Access: How it is transforming itself and the worlds of researchA casual observer of latest research news might be wondering about an avalanche-like tide of “op…02 May 2018ArticleReinventing Social Science & Universities for Social Transformation ‘Transformation of science and research’ is what Julia February 19th called for, because of va…23 Apr 2018Article Young Academy Accelerator now open for applications!We are now accepting applications for the Young Academy Accelerator Spring/Summer 2018. You could be part of the sixth cohort of The Young Foundation’s flagship Accelerator programme providing support for innovati…08 Mar 2018ArticleBureaucratic Compass: Addressing administrative hurdles for freelancersBureaucratic Compass Addressing administrative hurdles for freelancers What’s the problem? A growing number of educated, creative people in Zagreb (Croatia) works on starting their own business in upcomi…07 Mar 2018ArticleA community for self-educationPärnu Network Community for self-education What’s the problem? The quiet coastal city of Pärnu, Estonia turns into a bustling resort town in summer. This causes a problem, however, for the generation…07 Mar 2018Article Introduction to social network analysis As in the real world, even on the social media, people have a preference relationship with certain individuals recognized for their prestige, reputation and experience. Opinion leaders are those who first create or b…28 Feb 2018 15:00EventConnecting territories: the role of European Regions and Cities in the future EU policies for R&IAs Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation (R&I) programme for the period 2013-2020, draws to an end, the elaboration of the new (9th) R&I Framework Programme is underway, in the light of the evaluation o…20 Feb 2018 17:00Event CoR MOOC 2018: Make the most of EU resources for your region and cityThe European Comittee of the Regions (CoR) is the first EU body that developed and delivered two Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) on "Europe's regions, the EU institutions and policy-making" (2015) and "The EU budget…15 Feb 2018 16:45EventLabs for Social InnovationWe are pleased to present you the final outputs of the project Labs for Social Innovation, carried out by the ESADE’s Institute for Social Innovation and the Robert Bosch Foundation. We would like to thank you for you…12 Dec 2017ArticlePolicy Report: How EU Employment Policy is driving Social InnovationSIC has produced its second 'state of the union' report, researching and mapping how EU employment policy is driving social innovation throughout Europe. The European Commission has recognised a need to address fund…11 Dec 2017Social innovation policy; European policyEvidence for Society. Transforming the future of European people through researchThe Conference “Evidence for Society. Transforming the future of European people through research” (November, the 8th,) is jointly organized by the IMPACT-EV Consortium and Ms Soledad Cabezón, Member of the Europea…8 Nov 2017 15:30EventA universal language for colour-blindness SIC spoke with Miguel Neiva, 1 of the 4 winners of the 6th edition of the Social Innovation Tournament hosted by the European Investment Bank this year in Latvia, Riga. He shares his project ColorADD, a tool designed to…04 Oct 2017Article‘FÊTE DES POSSIBLES’: TWO EVONEERS’ JOURNEY WORKSHOPS AT AEIDL(30 August 2017) - On 19 and 26 September, AEIDL organised a workshop on the "Evoneers’ Journey”, a training curriculum at the heart of the SIRCle project. The Social Innovation for Resilient Communities (SIR…19 Sep 2017 15:30Event Pages› Last 1 2 3
