European Community of Practice

Workshop 3 Building skills for innovation 

The workshop started with hearing people's expectations for this part of the seminar. They were the same as for the workshop 1.  

The presentations were given by:

-      Dorothee Wagner (UK Ni) - the Rickter Scale - a simple tool developed by the Rickter Company, widely used in the ESF projects in the UK,

-      Stefan Schultz – Trieglaff (Germany) - transnational thematic networking,

-      Javier Sáez del Álamo (Spain) - three models of networking and how they contribute to building skills for innovation.  

The reflections and inspirations to come from the discussion were:

-      Networking helps to build and reinforce skills.

-      Transferability of the results is easier between network members.

-      Networks help to incorporate different ideas into the work processes (Spanish examples: incorporation of social clauses into the public procurement procedures, creation of social companies).

-      Communication is critical in the process (involvement of policy makers).