• Social innovation in education and employment: differences and commonalities (led by Peter Oeij and Antonius Schröder)
• How social innovation helps to solve problems of education and lifelong learning (led by Maria Podlasek-Ziegler)
• How social Innovation helps to solve employment problems (led by Greet Vermeylen)
• The potential of social innovation to overcome interrelated challenges in education and employment (led by Peter Oeij, Maria Podlasek-Ziegler, Antonius Schröder and Greet Vermeylen)

Methods:
Presentations, conversations, round table and panel discussions;

• Striking results from SI-DRIVE’s policy fields on social innovation in the area of sustainability. These are environment & climate change, energy supply and transport & mobility.
• Practitioner report: how a particular social innovation initiative developed and overcame barriers (innovation biography)
• How can social innovation contribute to sustainability transition? Lessons learnt and future questions.

Methods: Presentations, interview conversation, creation of a poster gallery in groups and presentation

• Headline results from SI-DRIVE’s exploration of health and social care and lessons learned from the research
• Case studies and illustrations of social innovation in health and social care
• Challenges to innovation and mechanisms for change
• Removing barriers: how can we improve social innovation in health and social care
• Looking to the future: next steps for social innovation in health and social care

Methods: Presentation, small group and panel discussions

• Headline results from SI-DRIVE’s policy field on social innovation for poverty reduction and sustainable development — what we have learnt and what should happen next (led by Jeremy Millard, Bradford University, UK)
• Research challenges and future research directions in social innovation for poverty reduction and sustainable development (led by Gayani FERNANDO, PhD researcher, UK).
• Poverty, social policy and social innovation in Europe, drawing on the EU project ImPRovE aiming to improve evidence-based policy making in Europe, both in the short and in the long term, through research that is directly relevant for policymaker (led by Stijn OOSTERLYNCK, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium).
• The role of social innovation in global development and as an essential tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, 2016-2030 (led by Raul ZAMBRANO, UNDP, New York).

Methods: Presentation, small group and panel discussions;

Key questions will then be:

• How Institutions can leverage community social innovators level of contextual understanding and insight to define better solutions to their local challenges?
• How policy makers can support community innovators when implementing their solutions to local challenges?
• Is there a gap or a lack of ability to negotiate the processes needed to take communities’ solutions further? How can we cover this gap?
• What’s the role of intermediaries in this context?
• How can we build capability within social innovators and ‘doers’ in our communities.

Methods: Presentation, workshop and discussion.

This workshop session will set out to bring social innovation policy researchers, policymakers, and public sector representative together to co-design a strategy that will inform the establishment of a sustainable European Social Innovation Policy Forum.

Key questions will then be:

• How can ongoing policy dialogue be facilitated between different European SI programmes and the SI Community?
• In what ways can policy dialogue be sustained between the SI community and European policymakers?
• What’s needed to embed and institutionalise social innovation policy in Europe?
• How can the SI Community go further to make the case for ongoing collaboration with policymakers around public challenges?

Methods: Workshop, conversations, roundtable.