Filippo Addarii represents the network at FET11 - The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011, a unique conference on visionary, high-risk and long-term research in information science and technology. Featuring an exceptionally broad range of scientific fields the event will seed new ideas across disciplines that will reshape the future.

1. FET 11
INSITE
Budapest, 6 May 2011
Networks
to make society to
move on
by Filippo Addarii
Institutional partner of and supported by the European
Commission

2. What we cover
• What kind of network Euclid is
• How to make society to move on
• 3 Stories
• Next challenges

3. Why are we needed?
• Postmod poverty - eg long term
unemployment - resistant to State led
solutions (social engineering) doesn’t
deliver
• Markets know best (World Economic
Forum)… really? eg financial and
economic crisis started in 2008

4. Launch, Paris 2007

5. Euclid Network
Over 3000 civil society
professionals from 30
countries (EU and beyond)
These members collectively:
► Turnover €3 billion per year
► Employ 52,000 staff
► Manage over 1.2 million
volunteers
Hubs in London, Paris,
Stockholm and
Budapest
Pan-European governance

6. Why are we needed?
• Policy makers wonder who will save society
and develop sustainable solutions eg social
innovation pilot, Brussels March 2011

7. Are we just dreamers?

8. What do we do?
Public institutions have UN
Business leaders have World Economic Forum
Civil society leaders have Euclid Network
•Connecting
•Knowledge sharing
•Cross border and cross boundaries partnerships
To foster leadership, sustainability, innovation,
and influence of civil society in Europe and
beyond

9. 1) Transforming a bank
• Intesa San Paolo Bank Group one of the largest in the
Western Balkans
• No interest in neither services for civil society (eg
bridge loan for EU funding)

10. 1) From CSR to Business
• Since 2007 EN raised the issue of CSR in WB
• In 2009 Business department of the group took the
lead: social business is good business
• In 2010, EN – Intesa regional partnership agreement
and pilot in Serbia – civil society working group
• Plan to establish a CSR office in Serbia
• Results:
– Trasformation of business culture
– Sustainability of civ soc through income diversification
– Competition in the donor market
– Pressure on EU to improve procedures
• Remarks: commitment of Intesa employees to make a
difference ie civil society appeal

11. 2) EU funding rules reform
• EU one of the largest donors of civil society
(approx €50bn) but the most bureaucratic
• 2005 attempt led by Open Society (Soros
Foundation) to reform regulation
• 2009 indipendent consultation including CEE
and non EU countries (thanks to new
technologies)

12. 2) EU funding rules reform
• Facilitated by EU officials – committed to the
cause – recommendations by civil society
working group (CSWG) gathering 70 European
top networks
• 2011 both Commission and Parliament back
CSWG recommendations
• Remarks:
– EU legitimacy crisis (failed referenda)
– Economic crisis
– Internal support (civ soc appeal - more than
lobbying),
– Coordination across borders and boundaries

13. 3) Social Innovation
competition for Naples
• Naples is an international symbol of failure
(State and Market) and people do not believe
in change anymore (Camorra, garbage,
corruption)
• International competition to
– Capitalize on collective intelligence
– Design innovative solutions for 6 chronic social
challenges in Naples such as school drop-outs
and integration of Roma community

14. 3) Social Innovation
competition for Naples
• Public institutions not involved but
international and local civil society
organisations only
• Winners will receive budget to implement
ideas together with partners – evaluation at
the end
• Competition includes a strand for junior only
– aspiring social innovators and
entrepreneurs – to stimulate
entrepreneruship (cooperation with 6
Universities)

15. Next steps
We are improving professional and technological
means
…building a community across borders and
boundaries
…developing a new narrative
…and theorizing a new political and economic
paradigm
To take over Europe!
INSITE is part of the grand plan

16. For further information
filippo.addarii@euclidnetwork.eu
www.euclidnetwork.eu