SI-DRIVE was presented at the international conference and brokerage event “Achieving Impact – Socio-economic Sciences & Humanities (SSH) in HORIZON 2020” at the 26th and 27th of February 2014 in Athens. Within Session C “Making sense of Social Innovation!” Jürgen Howaldt gave an introduction to “Social Innovations” by highlighting its crucial role within the Europe 2020 Strategy and the new funding scheme “Horizon 2020” as well under the perspective of producing impact, for solving societal challenges.
Antonius Schröder presented together with Veit Echterhoff from ThyssenKruppSteel a show case of cooperation between industry and academia on the background of the activities of the European Steel Technology Platform ESTEP concerning workplace innovation (workers participation, green skills development). Please see ESTEP_workplace_innovation_20140210). For further information: http://www.achievingimpact2014.eu/