PROVEN INNOVATIONSTO SOLVE SOCIAL CHALLENGES

PresentationJuly 2013

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PROVEN SOLUTIONS

By introducing proven innovations that have successfully generated positive outcomes, we optimize resources and increase the possibilities to successfully implement innovation.Accessing the latest knowledge and technology to generate social change is essential in a moment of pressing needs.

† INERTIA IS NOT SUSTAINABLE. SO¢IAL INNOVATION IS AN IMPERATIVE.

SOCIALINNOVATION

Perhaps at no time since the 1940s has social innovation been so urgently needed. With increasing social needs and with decreasing resources to respond to them, we must find more efficient, effective, just and sustainable solutions, and scale them up to reach out to the most marginalized and vulnerable groups. Social innovation is not a luxury, it is an imperative.

SUSTAINABILITY

There are sustainable models that respond effectively to social challenges.These proven innovations could be adapted to other communities. Moreover, they inspire social organizations, social entrepreneurs and public institutions to speed up innovation.

What do we need?

Social Challenges

Employment Unemployment: 27%Young Unemployment: 57%

Education24% of students below B level at PISA 2010

Social InclusionSpain is the worst EU country in the Social Inclusion Score 2010.

Enviromentaland sustainability

Spain is 32nd in the Environmental Performance Index 2012

Housing134% increasing of evictions in 2012

Social Participation

Increasing the strikes and social protest and movements.

† INERTIA IS NOT SUSTAINABLE.SO¢IAL INNOVATION IS AN IMPERATIVE.

The proposal

Research globally of the best proven innovations and

facilitate its implementation to solve critical social

problems.

† SOLVE SO¢IAL CHALLENGES WITH PROVEN INNOVATIONS.

† SETTING UP SO¢IAL INNOVATION IN THE PUBLIC DEBATE.

RESPOND TO SOCIAL CHALLENGES WITH PROVEN INNOVATIONSBy facilitating the implementation of innovative solutions that are already working in other contexts and have a huge potential to resolve a social challenge.

Objectives

ENGAGE THE KEY ACTORS DURING THE PROCESSBy creating synergy among entrepreneurs, institutions, governments, companies, investors and social organizations to ensure a successful implementation and a more conductive ecosystem for innovation.

STIMULATE ORGANIZATIONS, ENTREPRENEURS AND GOVERNMENTSBy inspiring and promoting sustainability models that resolve effectively and efficiently critical social challenges.

Listening to the needs and understanding the demand

The process

Research at global level;

Definition of the challenge;

Selection of the best innovations;

Adaption of the models and generating connections;

Creation of an agenda of meetings for the innovators with key local stakeholders;

Accompaniment of the implementation of the innovations locally.

† ACCELERATING THE ¢HANGE PROCESS

Step by Step

RESEARCH GLOBALLY

We identify innovative solutions that successfully respond to the challenge, both locally and in the rest of the world.

We launch a global call for proven innovations, and we research proactively through the global networks of innovators.

The research process finishes with a pre-selection of 20 to 25 innovations per challenge.

DEFINITION CHALLENGE

The first step is to identify the question and the key concepts that will guide the research.

It is important that the formulation of the challenge emanates from an explicit local demand.

In some cases, it is necessary to organize a workshop to involve key stakeholders in defining the challenge.

SELECTION OF THE BEST SOLUTIONS

A jury, composed of experts and key stakeholders select the 3 innovations with the greatest potential to respond successfully to the challenge in the local context.

The main selection criteria for innovations are evidence of impact, the existence of a consolidated sustainability/income model, and the scale of implementation (expecting that the innovation has been implemented in different contexts).

† ACCELERATING THE ¢HANGE PROCESS

ADAPTATION AND CONNECTIONS

Then, we make an in-depth analysis to better understand the innovation, its sustainability model, and its replication strategy.

We do a first adaptation of the model to the local context and we create a map of potential stakeholders needed for implementation.

INNOVATORS VISITAND MEETING AGENDA

We organize a agenda of meetings of the innovators with stakeholders to facilitate commitment for implementation. These include potential investors, NGOs, public institutions, companies, foundations, entrepreneurs, trade unions, academia...

We consider the participation of the innovators in the adaptation and implementation of their model to be a critical success factor.

ACCOMPANYING LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION

We follow up the commitments made during the meetings and facilitate implementation by providing advice in planning, strategic alliances, access to key connections and catalyzing the first commercial contracts.

† ACCELERATING THE ¢HANGE PROCESS

Step by Step

Defining the challenge

Research globally

Selecting the best solutions

Adapting the model and generating

connections

Organizingan agenda

of meetings

Accompanying local implementation

2 weeks 12 week 3 weeks 2 months 2 days 1 month

OPTIONALFull accompaniment of implementation, by supporting planning, searching for partners and alliances to catalyze the first commercial contracts.

† ACCELERATING THE ¢HANGE PROCESS

Step by Step

Results

INNOVATIONS ON IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS

The aim of the process is the successfully implementation innovations with proven social impact in response to a demand, scaling and promoting social innovation.

The steps of the work process identify the proven solutions with the greatest potential to be adapted and replicated in the demand context.

Also, can involve stakeholders which, added to the visit of innovators, creates the conditions for reaching agreements and commitments necessary for implementation is carried out successfully.

Our aim is to implement 5 social innovations in 2013.

DELIVERABLES

Report of 20/25 innovations with proven social impact shortlisted for evaluation by the jury.

Detailed report of the 3innovations selected by the jury.

Public presentation of the selected innovations with the participation of innovators.

Agenda of meetings of the innovators with local stakeholders.

† THIS CENTURY CHALLENGE IS S¢ALE WHAT IS WORKING.

8 INNOVATIONS IN PHASE TO BE IMPLEMENTED

4 COMPLETED CHALLENGES

Results on July 2013

16 SELECTED INNOVATIONS, LAUNCHED IN BARCELONA

4 INNOVATIONS ARE NEGOTIATING WITH LOCAL PARTNERS TO BE IMPLEMENTED

MORE THAN 380 INNOVATIONS ANALISED

† THIS CENTURY CHALLENGE IS S¢ALE WHAT IS WORKING.

ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABILITYHow to reduce the impact of mas tourism on the environment and liveability of Barcelona,while creating opportunities for entrepreneurs and tour operators?

SOCIAL INCLUSION

How can we increase the employability of people with disabilities?

How can we increase the opportunities of single-parent families with children to reduce the risk of social exclusion?

EMPLOYMENTHow can we equip young people with the skills, information and opportunities necessaryto succeed in the labour market?

Completed Challenges

Strategics Partners

† THIS CENTURY CHALLENGE IS S¢ALE WHAT IS WORKING.

† EFICIENT, EFFE¢TIVE AND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS

Underway implementations

Jump Math (Canada): John Mighton has created a methodology that achieves unprecedented success in teaching mathematics to students that promotes intellectual achievements later. Applied in more than 200 schools in the U.S. and Canada, in the 2013-2014 school year Barcelona will implement a pilot project in 10 schools.

Specialisterne (Denmark): A company that employs high-functioning autistic adults and uses their special skills to out-perform the market. They offer software testing services, data entry and quality control. Nowadays is giving work to more than 90 people and is managing more than 3 million euros per year. They will start operating in Spain on January 2014.

Môm’Artre (France): centers of artistic and educational support for children after school hours, using latent resources of the community. Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera will launch this model in eight of its centers from September 2013.

Partnering for Change – Housing First (USA): public-private partnership to ensure services to families at risk of social exclusion, access to stable housing and support services, and information management. The Barcelona City Council is considering how to implement some lines of this model led by Tanya Tull.

† KEY A¢TORS INVOLMENT

Testimonies

“I want to reaffirm our support for the work of UpSocial: the methodology used to find successful initiatives that can be effectively implemented in Catalonia”.

Marta SubiràGeneral Director of Environmental PolicyRegional Government of Catalonia

“Has been identified innovations that combine evidence of success, results and

scalable models of sustainability.”

Maite FandosMayor Deputy

Barcelona City Council

Testimonies

“I have met very nice innovations, and especially realistic. None of them is impossible”.

Gloria CanalsDirector of Fundació Aura

“We have joined the great project of ThorkilSonne. Our aim is that in January 2014 already

have between 5 to 10 people working in Specialisterne Spain”.

Ramon BernatPresident of Fundación Planeta Imaginario

Specialisterne Investor

† KEY A¢TORS INVOLMENT

Testimonies

“Social Innovation for Communities reuneix amb stakeholders gent que està treballant bé, aconseguint que tinguin lloc converses que possiblement no haguessin passat. Crec que això és realment important”.

Wendy BrawerFounder of Open Green Map (United States)

“What SIC provides is link. In this globalized world, solutions exist in remote corners

serving our country specifically.Finding these solutions is equivalent to not reinvent

the wheel but to take existing solutions, adapt themand use them according to the demand at each place”.

Fernando SanabriaGeneral Manager of Fundación Paraguaya (Paraguay)

† KEY A¢TORS INVOLMENT

† AN INICIATIVE PROMOTED BY UPSO¢IAL

In UpSocial participates a group of social entrepreneurs who decide to associate to promote social innovation and facilitate its scalability.

We believe that social problems require, today more than ever, solutions with a new approach, one more efficient and effective.

There are innovative solutions that respond to social challenges but, in most cases, their impact is local. The challenge of this century is to identify social innovations that work and bring them to scale.

In this changing process, social entrepreneurship provides a key factor: the concern to meet the social demands through its own activity, focusing directly on their solution.

Action lines

We identify innovations that are working successfully and we facilitate its implementation in new contexts through the initiative Social Innovation for Communities.

We work to affect to the public policies and promote changes in the legal, economic and education framework, to facilitate entrepreneurship and social innovation.

We share information and organize activities in order to contribute to the consolidation of the sector and to install social innovation in the public debate.

† CONTRIBUTING WITH OUR EXPERIEN¢E AND DEDICATION

UpSocial Members

Jean Claude Rodríguez-Ferrera*, Associació ACAF.

Jordi Juanós, El Pez que se Muerde la Cola.

Jorge Rovira, Bee Honey.

Laia Oto, 1x1microcredit.

Mamen Salcedo, Fundació Itinerarium.

Marta Nomen, Grup33.

Miquel de Paladella, 1x1microcredit.

Nacho Sequeira, Fundació Èxit.

Narcís Vives*, Fundació Itinerarium.

Viviana Urani, CLIC-CLAC.

* Ashoka Fellow.

The Team

† CONTRIBUTING WITH OUR NETWORK AND OUR LO¢AL KNOWLEDGE

UpSocial brings the leadership of Social Innovation for Communities (SIC) through a multidisciplinary professional team composed by experts in the social field and also scaling proven innovations:

SIC Director: Miquel de Paladella.

Project Manager:

Jordi Juanós

Jorge Rovira

Mamen Salcedo

Marta Nomen

Communication Director: Viviana Urani.

Casp 43 | 08010 Barcelona

www.upsocial.org @UpSocialBCN

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