{"id":1028,"date":"2019-01-31T11:06:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T10:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.essi-net.eu\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T15:39:28","slug":"social-innovation-as-a-trigger-for-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essi-net.eu\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Social Innovation as a trigger for transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Abid Mehmood, Research Fellow at Sustainable Places Research Institute and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/social-sciences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School of Social Sciences<\/a>, has produced a policy paper for the European Commission; \u2018Social Innovation as a Trigger for Transformations &#8211; The Role of Research\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Co-authored with Prof Frank Moulaert (KU Leuven), Dr Diana MacCallum (Curtin University) and Dr Bernhard Leubolt (WU Vienna), the report sets priorities for social innovation research to strengthen the position of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in the contemporary and future European research and policy landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Moedas\/status\/935160470419492864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report was announced<\/a>\u00a0on 27 November by the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation at the conference \u2018Opening up to an Era of Social Innovation\u2019 in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>The policy review considers social innovation as a way of understanding a wide range of activities and practices for addressing social problems or meeting human needs. Social innovation policy should support economically and socially marginalised and, consequently, vulnerable people as productive economic actors with an emphasis on individual empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>The report proposes giving prominence to the epistemological and methodological research in European SSH. It also recommends redefining the terms of cooperation between social sciences and the so-called \u2018hard sciences\u2019, acknowledging the long-standing contribution of social sciences in inter- and trans-disciplinary research.<\/p>\n<p>The authors recommend that a future research programme should focus on a fully developed and separate set of \u2018Societal Challenges\u2019 on the future of democracies, societies and economies, and construction of solidarities beyond national borders.<\/p>\n<p>The full report can be viewed at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/orca.cf.ac.uk\/107122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/orca.cf.ac.uk\/107122\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author(s): Abid Mehmood, Sustainable Places Research Institute, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/social-sciences\">School of Social Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orginally published: <span class=\"list_block date_box format_by_type\">09 Jan 2018<\/span>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siceurope.eu\/\">www.siceurope.eu <\/a><\/p>\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/www.essi-net.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flag_yellow_high.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1122 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.essi-net.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flag_yellow_high-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"74\" height=\"49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essi-net.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flag_yellow_high-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.essi-net.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flag_yellow_high-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.essi-net.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flag_yellow_high-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 74px) 100vw, 74px\" \/><\/a>The SIC project has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693883<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abid Mehmood, Research Fellow at Sustainable Places Research Institute and the\u00a0School of Social Sciences, has produced a policy paper for the European Commission; \u2018Social Innovation as a Trigger for Transformations &#8211; The Role of Research\u2019. 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