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A global tour of social innovation

What’s going on? Who’s doing it? And how do we know

about it?

Louise Pulford

Social Innovation Exchange

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A world where…

Social innovators can easily exchange and share:

Ideas that work, across sectors and geographies

Talent, capabilities, skills

Access to power

Money, capital and resources

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Hiriko CityCar

What possibilities unfold

when the world’s leading engineers

and designers collaborate to tackle

carbon emissions?

The Agents • MIT and Hiriko are designing a

revolutionary car that could

drastically reduce carbon

emissions from city driving

The Idea • It’s electric, it’s foldable and it’s

smaller than the Smart Car

The Potential • Changing how we drive—and

how we park—in cities

Siel Bleu

How dramatically could we improve the

health of our ageing population if we

implemented programs of care—at scale?

The Agents

• Classic social innovators working

through their own civil society

organisation

The Idea

• Bring health benefits—and everyday

joy—to the elderly through regular group

fitness programming

The Potential

• Help more than 60,000 elderly—first in

France, and soon all around Europe—

maintain independence and health

Housing First

How would our response to homelessness

change if considered housing as a right to be

respected, not a privilege to be earned?

The Agents • The model was first developed and tested

in the US, but quickly spread and is now

tested by NGOs, foundations and

governments around the world

The Idea • Access to permanent housing is seen as

the first response to homelessness,

social, health and other support is then

provided independently.

The Potential • Better residential stability outcomes and

is cost-effective.; itincurs public

expenditure savings through reductions

in use of emergency health services and

the criminal justice system.

GoodGym

How can we take advance of the wasted

energy people use in gyms to meet the

needs of isolated people in our

communities?

The Agents • Everyday people who wants to combine

doing good with physical exercise

The Idea

• GoodGym connects people who want to

get fit with physical tasks that need to be

done, and which benefit the community.

The Potential

• GoodGym is now open to everyone in

East London, and is looking for national

partners to take the project to the next

stage. Good Gym wants to rival the

success of gyms, getting people all over

the world off treadmills and into their

communities.

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“nearly every problem has been solved by someone,

somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is

to find out what works and scale it up”

President Clinton

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The art of bricolage

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• How can we build up new finance flows for social innovation?

• How can we effectively scale or replicate great ideas?

• What are the best ways to incubate new ideas and ventures?

• How can we effectively uses prizes and competitions to promote innovative

practice?

• How can platforms for social innovation be improved and what tools will we be

using by 2015?

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“The financial and economic crisis

makes creativity and innovation in

general, and social innovation in

particular even more important to

foster sustainable growth, secure

jobs and boost competitiveness.”

President Barroso

BEPA Workshop on ‘Europe and Social

Innovation’

20 January 2009

“The Europe I Believe In”

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Social Innovation Europe

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How can SIX connect, support and inspire innovators all over the

world more effectively?

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Louise Pulford Vicki Sellick

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