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Workshop on social innovation
Moderated by Ognjen Andrić (Telecentar, Croatia)
Speakers: Altheo Valentini (EGINA, Italy) and Jan
Gejels (Working with Europe, Denmark)
Theme: Developing EU Social Innovation Projects
Conclusions and recommendations:
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Social innovation policies and initiatives
across EU are varied and dispersed. There
is no all-encompassing and inclusive social
innovation programme on the EU level.
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Social inclusion is a strategy for a smart,
sustainable and community-based future and
social innovation is already a thread linking the
official flagship initiatives of the EU 2020 strategy.
The Digital Single Market strategy should however
integrate b etter the aspect of social innovation policy.
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EU
funding
for
social
innovation,
entrepreneurial and digital inclusion initiatives are still
limited to traditional fields and areas. EU funding in this
area is mostly not representative of the cross-topic,
cross-sector and holistic European innovation policies.
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Social innovation is at the core of digital
inclusion of persons with disability, just to
mention one example. There are numerous other
areas where social innovation is key to advance.
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Stakeholders active in the field of social
innovation should increase collaboration and
combine their individual areas of excellence
to
create
new
development
projects.
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Unite-it.eu will be used as a platform for
exchange of information and ideas among the
members of this working group, and participants
are encouraged to stay tuned. Formats to be further
exploited to that end are: webinars, summer
schools and annual conferences, among others.
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