European Community of Practice

Check out the videos, photos and reports from the workshop on social innovation in Lisbon on October 27th. Click on the links from this page to see pictures, texts and drawings of individual sessions or go here to see the videos.

Odette Filipe described how attention to gender stimulates social action. Later she talked to Horácio Covito in more detail about the products that came out of her partnership with Trade Unions.

Leda Stott answered the question: how do partnerships contribute to social innovation?

In this session we heard four stories from people talking about the factors they think lead to social innovation.

Alec Carlberg told a story about listening. His main points were:

"To be able to start the process of empowerment within a vulnerable group that wants to change its life situation for the better it is necessary to start with a profound study of the target group. Questions such as these below should be answered:

Louis Vervloet from the ESF Flanders gave his presentation about appraising innovative projects.

David Lindenaar from the Agentschap SZW in the Netherlands presented the powerpoint below.

Ton de Korte described the Netherlands Centre for Social Innovation (NSCI) with this powerpoint presentation.

A collective description of people at each table was presented in one line from each table.

Why are we here?

• share our tools and stories of things that lead to social innovation
• deepen our collective understanding of what leads to social innovation
• improve therecommendations to ESF decision-makers

Social Reporters

Here are the different interpretations people have of what Social Innovation is... They were written on post-it notes and stuck on the wall. See them categorised below...

You should also watch these videos to see what people said about social innovation...