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Social innovation and inclusion: a new paradigm for action Ana Vale

Social innovation and inclusion: a new paradigm for action Ana Vale. The EQUAL Community Initiative A starting point : new solutions to social problems more and more complex can benefit from the exchange of experiences, practices, knowledge and reflection between Member States

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Social innovation and inclusion: a new paradigm for action Ana Vale

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  1. Social innovation and inclusion: a new paradigm for action Ana Vale

  2. The EQUAL Community Initiative A starting point: new solutions to social problems more and more complex can benefit from the exchange of experiences, practices, knowledge and reflection between Member States • A clear objective: developing innovative actions to fight against discrimation in the labour market

  3. A framework: • the innovation and mainstreaming cycle: needs diagnosis, • testing, validation and mainstreaming • Principles: • partnership, empowerment, gender equality, transnational cooperation, mainstreaming • as main ingredients to promote social innovation

  4. Resources: • Wide range of organisations and people involved • National and european networks • Time to achieve results and mainstream them • Specific funding allocated to social innovation

  5. Changing the paradigm: • To focus on individuals and communities strenghts rather than their weaknesses • Community based solutions rather than national solutions • To capitalize on diversity rather than discriminating gender, race, religion, age, handicapped people

  6. To build solutions with the target groups rather than detached from them • To develop an holistic approach to problems rather than answering in a fragmented way • To reinforce collaborative solutions and partnerships rather than give one organisation one responsability

  7. Changing the paradigm: • To encourage collaboration rather than competition • To make information available rather than limited and inaccessible • To make a better use of resources rather than duplicate effort

  8. Innovation & Mainstreaming Cycle: • Needs assessment • Experimentation • Validation and recognition of the quality of the results • Transfer and dissemination

  9. EQUAL – a capital to explore : • New ways of learning (the role of peers) • New spaces and dynamics of learning (networks, empowered communities) • New actors and new leaderships (social innovators, social artists)

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