1. Why, what and where next? Social Innovation Europe Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive Young Foundation
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3. Why – and why now? Europe has a great history of social innovation, experiment, enterprise and action But too often social creativity is punished not rewarded; what’s great isn’t grown Europe is too often for the big; the incumbents; interest groups attached to problems rather than solutions Social Innovation Europe
4. As Europe 2020 recognised: we have no choice but to speed up our search for better solutions to the big challenges
9. a shared understanding - SI is not just about NGOs, but all innovations that are ‘social in their ends as well as their means’, that meet needs, but also leave behind a stronger capacity for societies to act
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11. Better policies For investment, regional growth, R&D, employment, social programmes, public procurement, the internal market for services - and how to get the biggest impact for each Euro spent
12. Better methods and skills Growing skills around finance, design, incubation, experimentation, evaluation in all sectors
16. ‘Omniavivunt, omnia inter se conexa’ (everything lives, everything is connected) Cicero Social Innovation Europe
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18. ‘It’s amazing what you can achieve if you don’t care who gets the credit’ Harry Truman
Hinweis der Redaktion
Today we plant a small seed that will hopefully grow into something big
How we do that follows the essential characteristics of any evolution – first we need to creative options, more and better;then we need ways to determine what works; then we need methods for growth. In our social space this is missing – insufficient investment in creativity; insufficient tools and metrics to determine what works; and poor systems for growth
Europe has the ideas, the creativity, the will: but we need to get better at orchestrating, amplifying and mobilising, and inject into Europe the spirit of SI which is made up of practitioners who move fast into action, just to it
This initiative will connect some of the most living things in Europe – our social creativity and help it to achieve the greatest impact