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Social innovation

The European Social Innovation Competition promotes and supports social innovation in Europe and is a platform for leading European innovators to launch new initiatives, help them in their development and learn from each other. Last week, the winners of this year’s edition were announced.
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Social innovation

The ten Finalists in the 2017 European Social Innovation Competition have been announced by the European Commission. They were selected from a shortlist of 30 Semi-Finalists, out of almost 800 entries from more than 40 countries.
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Social innovation

On September 26th the seven finalist teams of the Helsinki Challenge will meet in Brussels for a Global Impact Camp. It’s a two-day intensive co-creation session focusing on societal impact of research, funding and collaboration with international experts and EU decision-makers.
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Social innovation

For this year’s competition, we’ve been looking for projects that fight for equality. The jury has just chosen thirty inspiring semi-finalists.
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Social innovation

Kennisland is looking back on an enervating and interesting first week of May. We took a group of fifty Finnish citymakers on an expedition in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, visiting social innovative initiatives and inspiring Dutch citymakers. The Fins drew some remarkable lessons from the excursion.
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Government in transition, Social innovation

In May, Kennisland takes a group of Finnish citymakers on a social innovation tour. In four days, they will be familiarised with social innovation in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The group will get inspired and will be trained to approach societal issues from new perspectives.
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Education and youth

Although education in Hong Kong ranks among the world top, there remain plenty of opportunities for innovation. For this reason a prestigious fund for social innovation in Hong Kong started an ambitious programme for excellent and innovation-minded teachers in 2017, carried out by Ednovators and Kennisland.
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Flying from Strasbourg to Amsterdam, Paul Keller reflects on the political crisis Europa is facing. At the same time people in the Netherlands are voting in one of the most contested elections of recent memory. He argues for fairer ways of sharing our collective wealth.
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Government in transition, Social innovation

For two years, Amsterdam was Europe’s innovation capital. The city was awarded the iCapital title because of its innovation ecosystem, bottom-up approach and ability to use the creativity of its citizens to tackle societal issues. The programme Amsterdammers, Make Your City! uses the iCapital prize money to make further advances in this regard.
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Technological developments have enabled us to be creators. It has become easy to remix and transform material and share it on the Internet, which can conflict with (outdated) copyright regimes. We need to make sure we have copyright law that embraces innovative maker culture.
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Chris Sigaloff asks herself: Have we been so busy setting up experiments, talking about methods and innovating (amongst ourselves) that we distanced ourselves from politics and from the real issues? Have we blinded ourselves by a fake fantasy of ‘making the world better’? Are we losing sight of reality?
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We aim for maximum impact without pursuing profit; our priority is the public interest. We do not receive structural subsidies. This means that we are independent, sharp and enterprising. We are proud to share our successes and ambitions for the future.
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Social innovation

We are dedicated to social innovation and access to knowledge and information, for an inclusive, fair and social society. That's why we believe it’s important to examine ourselves critically too. How do we score when it comes to the principles we promote?
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There has been substantial interest in engaging a broad audience in scientific practice as of recently. One initiative is that the public decides to which research 10 percent of the total European research funds should be designated. According to Thijs van Exel democratisation of science is in principle a good thing, but only if simultaneously supported by explicit ideas on how you will inform and involve your target audience.
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The European Social Innovation Competition promotes and supports social innovation in Europe and is a platform for leading European innovators to launch new initiatives, help them in their development and learn from each other.
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Education and youth, Social innovation

Innovative projects were developed in Hong Kong based on our education projects. For Kennisland this is a unique opportunity to further develop our approaches and to see how they work in a different context.
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See who were selected as the ten finalists from the 1,095 applications that were received.
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Government in transition, Social innovation

Kennisland, Make a Difference Institute (MaD) Hong Kong and the HK Leisure and Services Department (LCSD) set up a social lab that explores how libraries can be more relevant spaces for citizens in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong.
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Care, Government in transition, Social innovation

Together with residents, the municipality and neighbourhood associations we explore how places like the Corfuplantsoen in Amsterdam Nieuw-West can be places for everyone. Starting point is the idea that being part of the decisionmaking processes of your neighbourhood and feeling a responsibility for the difficulties of your living space, will lead to cooperation and working together on creating places to live together in harmony.
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Social innovation

From 3-6 July 2016 the thirty semi-finalists of the European Social Innovation Competition come together in Berlin to follow workshops, coaching sessions, engage in discussions and explore local initiatives.
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