Common Good First Consortium Meeting in South Africa

Common Good First (CGF) partners from South Africa, Scotland, Iceland, Norway and Spain met at Rhodes University, in Grahamstown South Africa, for a project consortium meeting and community engagement symposium, from May 7^th to 9^th.

During the meetings CGF partners reflected on the project status halfway through its implementation, reviewed ongoing actions, and prepared plans for upcoming activities. Of particular interest were the sessions on the digital storytelling pilot modules that have taken place in Norway and South Africa, and the presentation of the detailed plans for the Common Good First platform designed by the South African team AvoChoc, which will allow to showcase digital stories of Social Innovation projects from around South Africa initially, and later expanded globally.

CGF partners are planning ahead for the launch of social innovation digital storytelling labs and key dissemination events in Johannesburg and in Cape Town in October 2018 and 2019, respectively, which will allow to put a national spotlight on the work done in social innovation in the country.

The University of Alicante and the OGPI were represented in the meeting by senior project manager Cristina Beans, responsible for chairing the project’s Advisory and Evaluation Committee (AEC), who reported back to the partners in the meeting on the AEC’s first evaluation of the project deliverables.