Traineeships and mobility experiences, implemented by SEND Mobility Consortium, are within the field of Innovation, understood in its different forms and desclinations. Throughout the mobility of individuals in Europe, the Consortium contibutes to the development and the exchange of innovative ideas and processes, which may create added value for our societies.
Innovation is a creative process that includes the capacity and ability to see opportunities and implement them in a manner which adds value in a broad sense: add value in a economic, social, technological, cultural sense. It can be incremental when it is characterised by small ideas which lead to improvement of extisting processes, products or methods. It can be radical when the invention or change has not been seen before.
The beauty of innovation is that it is not necessarily linked to the economic increment, but there are different types of Innovation. Our project and Consortium take into account 3 of those types:
- Economical Innovation > commercial application of a profit-driven idea;
- Technological Innovation > a new and more efficient method of transforming material reality;
- Social Innovation > idea and proccess aiming to meet social needs in a better way than existing solutions.
Innovation includes different sectors, disciplines and a wide range of professional profiles. In other words, it includes all actions and jobs which trigger positive changes!!!
Discover through the pdfs and videos below what Innovation is and its different forms….
For practical tips to become a social entrepreneur in few simple steps, click HERE and consult the guide created by the project #PlayEurope. The guide offers an interesting pathway on social entrepreneurship, with advices, key business elements, infographics, interesting videos and educational games to develop the needed technical and cross-sectorial skills to be a innovator!
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GUIDE TO SOCIAL INNOVATION BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION
In this report you can read all EU policy and strategies on Social Innovation, its definition, ramifications and experimentation, implementation, the evaluation of its impact on society, the actions undertaken and the programs to develop to achieve social innovation results.
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SOCIAL INNOVATION TOOLKIT
Social innovation is not a new phenomenon, but it has grown in prominence over the last decade both as a term and as an important driver of social change. Each year, the European Social Innovation Competition raises awareness of a different challenge facing European society and aims to unearth potentially game-changing ideas from all corners of Europe.
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DEVELOPMENT IMPACT & YOU
This toolkit provides tips, tools and advice on how to develop, implement, modify ideas useful to cause positive and innovative social changes. Read it, you can get good results!
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SOCIAL INNOVATION TRIGGER FOR TRANSFORMATIONS
Social Innovation as a Trigger for Transformations – The Role of Research. This Policy Paper examines the role of Social Innovation in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research, especially in those research projects funded under FP6 and 7, as well as Horizon 2020.
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SOCIAL INNOVATION
What is SOCIAL INNOVATION? What does SOCIAL INNOVATION mean? SOCIAL INNOVATION meaning – SOCIAL INNOVATION definition – SOCIAL INNOVATION explanation. All these information are provided by the 7 minutes video.
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WHAT IS SOCIAL INNOVATION??
Social Innovation is a process, product or programm that profoundly changes the way a given system operates. This is a video to understand Social Innovation, the benefits our society can take advantages from and the positive consequences of these processes.
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SOCIAL INNOVATION: CHANCE AND CHALLENGE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Higher Education Institutions(HEIs) and research institutes represent important platforms to promote intensive exchange between different disciplines, business sectors and cultures thus creating chances and opportunities for Social Innovation. This is an interesting article on why Higher Education Institutions are important for social innovation and how they can promote social innovation initiatives and projects.
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DEFINING SOCIAL INNOVATION
There is growing interest in social innovation among policymakers, foundations, researchers and academic institutions around the world. Despite this interest, there are no shared or common definitions of social innovation. Currently, there are a large number of different definitions in circulation…
