Another inspiration on social innovation!

Another inspiration on social innovation!

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This company cleans beaches and turns the plastic waste into Bluetooth speakers.

Gomi Designs mine plastic waste that is not recycled by councils and use it to build technology products

Their first product is a revolutionary bluetooth speaker made from plastic trash that would otherwise end up in landfill or the oceans.  They are based in Brighton, UK and are working towards making plastic waste a thing of the past! If you’d like to get in touch, please email hi@gomi.design

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Meet the Social Innovation Community!

Meet the Social Innovation Community!

Meet the Social Innovation Community!

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About SIC

Welcome to Social Innovation Community (SIC)! SIC is the community for social innovators across Europe.

Here you can find what’s going on and who’s doing it.

Why do we need SIC?

A range of social innovation organisations and networks have emerged in Europe in recent years to tackle the increasingly complex and interrelated challenges we face today. Yet too often this activity is limited to a small but active few, and is not well-coordinated or visible enough to achieve critical mass.

How does it work?

Taking areas of known social innovation activity – which we’ve organised around ‘social innovation networks’ – SIC will strengthen, connect and grow existing social innovation communities – including public sector innovation, digital social innovation, intermediaries, social economy actors and more.

Starting from the premise that we need more open innovation approaches to effectively address societal challenges, over a three year period, SIC will run a series of on- and offline activities – including practical place-based experiments, learning, policy and research.

What will it do?

Our aim is to:

1) help deepen the knowledge and capacity of the networks to act and grow, and

2) support public decision-makers and other stakeholders to work with social innovators more effectively in solving public challenges.

 

SIC is a Horizon 2020 Programme funded project, and run by a consortium of 12 leading organisations across Europe. SIC will run from February 2016- 2019.

Social innovation: when business becomes a force for good

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Business Planet travels to Paris to see how one award winning company is making a big difference by turning piles of the city’s food waste into renewable energy.

Turning trash into treasure

For many businesses it is nearly always about the bottom line, but what about those socially innovative companies that decide to go beyond just making money, choosing instead to make a wider contribution to society? French firm ‘Love Your Waste’ is one such firm. Working with schools, hospitals, restaurants and food delivery firms in and around Paris, the company collects piles of food waste that end up in the French capital’s bins every day.

Explaining what happens to the waste once it is collected, ’Love Your Waste’ Co-founder Jérôme Perrin, said: “It (the bio-waste) is sent to be transformed into renewable energy, bio-gas, and organic fertiliser that is non-polluting for local agriculture.”

 

Read full text here: https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/28/social-innovation-when-business-becomes-a-force-for-good

 

 

Find inspiration and become plastic positive!

Find inspiration and become plastic positive!

Become plastic positive

Read about Empower – company creating a global solution to the plastic waste problem by giving plastic a value. By matching those who want to sponsor clean-ups with anyone willing to do it,
we are cleaning up the world while fighting poverty.

This year Empower entered the  European Social Innovation Competition is a challenge prize run by the European Commission across all EU Member States and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries. Now in its 7th year, the Competition acts as a beacon for social innovators in Europe, employing a proven methodology for supporting early-stage ideas and facilitating a network of radical innovators shaping society for the better. Each year the Competition is based around a different issue facing Europe.

This year, the focus is:

Challenging Plastic Waste.

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Their solution challenges plastic waste by giving it a value: anyone who comes and deposits plastic waste at a collection point will receive a financial reward given out under the form of digital tokens. One would only need a smartphone and our Empower mobile application. As the plastic collector delivers plastic waste, they present their QR code to be scanned and receive the tokens immediately in their digital wallet. The tokens can be converted to their local currency (1 token = 1 USD) or donated to fund another clean-up. As people get rewarded when they bring in plastic, we are incentivising the clean-up of plastic waste on a large scale and closing the tap on plastic leakage into nature.

Empower solution also enables direct recycling aids to countries who do not have the resources and waste management systems to handle plastic pollution by themselves. The transparency and traceability of our blockchain-powered solution – which permits the immutable recordings of when, where, how much plastic has been collected and how much the plastic waste collector has been paid – provide the credibility for sponsors to invest in Empower’s plastic fund to support plastic clean-ups where they are most needed. We ensure the security of the transactions and bridge the trust gap that exists when it comes to deploying financial aids. Individuals, businesses and local governments can offset their plastic waste footprint and see the real impact that they are making on the plastic waste issue.

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How Buying Social Is Changing The World?

How Buying Social Is Changing The World?

How Buying Social Is Changing The World – Great feature in @Forbes  by Judith Magyar.

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At the Houses of Parliament in London earlier this year, SAP Executive Board member Adaire Fox-Martin (pictured above) appealed to an audience of the United Kingdom’s leading social-enterprise CEOs and corporate executives to come even closer together to find “a better way to grow.”

Together with Chair Lord Victor Adebowale and CEO Peter Holbrook, Adaire announced SAP’s partnership with Social Enterprise UK, through which the two organizations plan to further scale the burgeoning social enterprise sector.

Social enterprises are normal businesses in that they generate the majority of their income through trade – albeit with several important differentiating characteristics. First, they have a clear social or environmental mission set out in their governing documents. They reinvest the majority of their profits back into their business or mission. They are autonomous of state. And they are majority controlled in the interests of their social mission.

Read full text on Forbes website here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2019/07/25/how-buying-social-is-changing-the-world/#1bf46aaf7e76) forbes.com/sites/sap/2019… \

#BuySocial #socent

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Om Mötesplats Social Innovation

Mötesplats Social Innovation är den samlande nationella kunskapsnoden för social innovation och socialt entreprenörskap. Vår främsta uppgift är att aktivt följa vad som händer inom fältet, både i Sverige och internationellt och se till att kunskap och erfarenheter utvecklas, delas och kommer till användning. Tillsammans med akademi, näringsliv, off entliga och ideella aktörer bygger vi kapacitet för innovation som möter samhällsutmaningar.

Den här handboken är tänkt som en steg-för-steg-guide till den person som ansvarar för påverkansmätningar i din organisation. Alla sociala företag och entreprenörer som vi har samarbetat med betonar vikten av att det finns en särskild eller specifik person som ansvarar för att mäta påverkan och resultat. Detta är lika viktigt som att det finns en revisor i ett vanligt företag, eftersom nyckeltalen för ditt arbete finns i påverkansmätningarna, kanske i större utsträckning än i balansräkningen. En annan aspekt som våra entreprenörer påpekat är att den personen dock inte ska vara ensam i det arbetet. Det är extremt viktigt att hela gruppen integreras i processen och känner att de gemensamt äger och ansvarar för mätningarna. Det hela är en samarbetande och kreativ process.

Ladda ner manualen här

I takt med att intresset för social innovation, socialt entreprenörskap och socialt företagande växer, ökar också kraven på att dessa aktörer ska kunna visa på nyttan av och det värde som skapas genom deras arbete. På så vis är det enklare för finansiärer, såväl privata som offentliga, att välja vad de ska investera i och följa utvecklingen.
Det finns såklart både för- och nackdelar med detta.
Att mäta kan driva kvalitet och ge bättre fokus på målet. Genom att tydliggöra effekterna är det lättare att få finansiering.
Å andra sidan, mätning och utvärdering kan vara en komplicerad process för en enskild entreprenör med begränsade resurser. Och i ett större perspektiv, vad händer i ett samhälle där kraven på mätbarhet hela tiden ökar? Ska man verkligen mäta allt?
Med den här handboken vill vi ge en introduktion till ämnet effektmätning, med såväl de möjligheter som utmaningar det innebär. Vi börjar med att djupdyka in i effektmätningens olika beståndsdelar, genom intervjuer med och analys av sociala entreprenörer och intermediärer som är tongivande då det gäller effektmätning. Avslutningsvis ger vi en mer övergripande bild av området och hur trenderna ser ut i samhället då det gäller utvärdering och effektmätning och tittar närmare på exemplet deltagarbaserad forskning och hur det utvärderas.
Mer utförliga beskrivningar av de sociala entreprenörerna i handboken finns att ta del av i slutet av denna skrift.
Den här handboken riktar sig inte bara till sociala entreprenörer, utan till alla som på olika sätt är intresserade av att lära sig mer om det här växande fältet. Genom att låta intermediärer och entreprenörer dela med sig av sin erfarenhet och sina metoder hoppas vi att ni som läser boken kan inspireras och finna något som passar just er.

Erika Augustinsson,
Redaktör, Mötesplats Social Innovation

 

 

Socialinio verslo gairės

Socialinio verslo gairės

Gyventojų mažėjimas Lietuvojos provincijoje ir retai apgyvendintų teritorijų plitimas pastaruosius dešimtmečius tampa nauju rimtu iššūkiu Lietuvos valstybei ir visuomenei.

Su tuo susijusias įvairias socialines problemas padeda spręsti įvairios socialinio verslo

 iniciatyvos.  Prie tokių iniciatyvų priskiriamas ir socialinio verslo plėtojimas.

Europos Komisija mano, kad socialinio verslo plėtra turėtų vykti dviem kryptimis – skatinant tiek tradicinio privataus verslo susidomėjimą socialiniu verslu, tiek nevyriausybinių organizacijų domėjimąsi naujomis  paslaugų teikimo galimybėmis.

Vieni pirmųjų, socialinio verslo plėtrai,  Lietuvoje  sąlygas  sudarė Lietuvos kaimo plėtros 2014-2020 m. programos (KPP) remiama priemonė LEADER, finansuojama Europos žemės ūkio fondo kaimo plėtrai lėšomis, kuri daugeliui bendruomenių padeda vystyti veiklą ir joms sėkmingai gyvuoti. LEADER bene vienintelė programa, kuri yra arčiausiai kaimo žmonių ir geriausias įrankis vietos problemoms spręsti bei siekti inovatyvių  socialinių sprendimų.Todėl Lietuvos kaimiškuose regionuose atsiranda daugiau galimybių ir inovatyvių būdų ne tik spręsti kylančias socialines problemas, bet ir stiprinti nevyriausybinio sektoriaus gebėjimus ir pajėgumus. Be to socialinis verslas gali būti remiamas ir pagal KPP priemonę „Ūkio ir verslo plėtra“ veiklos sritį „Parama ekonominės veiklos pradžiai kaimo vietovėse“.

Teikiame paruoštas socialinio verslo gaires pagal 2014-2020  Lietuvos kaimo plėtros  programą, tikėdamiesi , kad Lietuvos kaimiškose bendruomenėse atsiras ryžto patiems bandyti spręsti savo vietovės  socialines problemas.

Galite perskaityti gaires čia:

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References:

https://ismanuskaimas.lt/socialinis-verslas-kaime-kulturine-veikla-kaime/

https://www.15min.lt/verslas/naujiena/zemes-ukis/geresniam-gyvenimui-lietuvos-kaime-kurti-parama-313-1010328

www.kaimotinklas.lt

 

Impact StartUp in the Nordic countries

Impact StartUp in the Nordic countries

Den Sociale Kapitalfond (DSK)  is a large danish social impact investment fund. DSK is currently working together with five Nordic partners with the ambition to create the world’s strongest impact startup environment, where social entrepreneurs are supported to unfold their social business models and where they are provided with seed capital from impact investors.

The Nordic welfare model has proved to be a strong  system to  solve many social problems, but today the nordic countries also face new and different challenges. A strong ecosystem of innovative social entrepreneurs would be able to help solve these challenges.

Thats why DSK wants to help support social entrepreneurs through participation in the “Impact StartUp” accelerator program, where social entrepreneurs can receive intensive and individually adapted business development counseling.
The intensive part of the programme would lasts six months, followed by a 12-month follow-up course. During the programme social entrepreneurs would also be able to qualify for a Nordic master class course, where they can meet like-minded Nordic social entrepreneurs and where they are shown Nordic market possibilities.
All accelerator programmes are completed with a pitch day towards Nordic impact investors.

The joint Nordic Impact StartUp has been developed based on the experience from the Social Start Up Program, that DSK has run in Denmark some years back.
A programme that has brought a lot of positive effects to many danish social entrerpreneurs, in terms of developing their social business model.

The model behind the joint Nordic Impact StartUp
Nordic countries have an emerging environment of social entrepreneurs, that want take a social responsibility.
Through an accelerator program the joint initiative can
Level 1) help social entrepreneurs strengthen their business and integrate a social bottom line into the business model. At the same time, more and more investors are focusing on impact investments. In the project, the initiative bring the parties together in what is called an “InvestorLab”
Level 2) where investors can help startups scale and create increased impact.
Level 3) The vision of the joint project is the project’s is to help develop welfare and welfare solutions in the Nordic countries .

About Den Sociale Kapital Fund 
Den Sociale Kapitalfond is  a danish impact investment fund. DSK invests capital and skills in companies and organisations which help solve social problems. The Fund was set up by Trygfonden and Lars Jannick Johansen in 2011 and it is headed by a group of partners. The Fund is driven by the determination to make a positive difference.
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Source: The Social Capital Foundation – Denmark