SIC stands for ‘Social Innovation Community’ – a H2020 project which aims to create a network of networks in the field of Social Innovation. Funded by the European Commission and run by a consortium of 12 leading organisations across Europe, SIC will engage, strengthen and connect existing social innovation networks including public sector innovators, digital social innovators intermediaries, social economy actors and more.
The Summer School takes place from 20th to 23rd September 2016 in Tilburg/The Netherlands and focuses on ‘Urban Social Innovation’.
Why are urban social innovations needed?
- A huge part of the world’s population lives in cities;
- Urban areas are laboratories of change in which stakeholders of science, industry, creative sectors, etc. interact;
- Cities face challenges in terms of inequality and diversity, economic viability and sustainability and the resilience of infrastructures and services. They must and can develop social innovations in order to address these challenges.
Social innovations shift functions between policy, the administration, the private sector, civil society and households and negotiate these shifts.
For three days you are invited to attend top-class lectures on the topics of ‘municipalities and cultural change’, ‘the role of intermediaries on urban social innovation’ and ‘development of urban social innovation ecosystems’. There are also presentations of good practice examples and break-out sessions where you have the opportunity to discuss experiences and develop solutions. On the fourth day, a participatory workshop will be conducted to create visions and strategies for the set-up of the SIC network.
The SIC Summer School is organised in cooperation with the ‘European Social Innovation Week’
A detailed programme will be made available soon at http://www.esiw.nl/event/sic-european-school-of-social-innovation-2016/?lang=en