social innovation

This week representatives from universities in Europe and Indonesia met in Graz, Austria, to kick-off the Erasmus+ project INSPIRE  (Introducing Social Entrepreneurship in Indonesian Higher Education), coordinated by FH JOANNEUM University and in which the University of Alicante is a partner as leader of the Exploration & Knowledge Transfer and the Quality Assurance work packages. The UA was represented by OGPI senior project manager Noelia López and by Institutional Entrepreneurship & Employability Programme manager Víctor Climent. 

The 1st International Conference of the Latinamerican Social Innovation Network took place in Panama City, Panama, on September 28^th and 29^th, 2017. It was organized by the Erasmus+ funded project LASIN, in which the University of Alicante is a partner.

Last week representatives from universities in Europe and South Africa met at Glasgow Caledonian University to discuss Social Innovation and Digital Storytelling in the framework of the Erasmus+ project Common Good First, coordinated by GCU and in which the University of Alicante is a partner as leader of the Quality Monitoring work package. The UA was represented by OGPI senior project manager Cristina Beans. The consortium was also joined by the EU appointed Project Officer from Brussels and a representative from the Scottish Government’s Department of Social Enterprise, Social Innovation and Social Investment, who are also contributing funding to the initiative.

These days, the 27 of February - 1st of March, the Kick of meeting of Erasmus+ project SEASIN Southeast Asian Social Innovation Network is taking place in Glasgow Caledonian University. The project, under the coordination of GCU, involves partners from Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar as well as two EU universities from Spain and Portugal.

The SEASIN project directly responds to the societal challenges of South East Asian society and proposes the creation of specific units established within universities to support knowledge transfer for social innovation. The University of Alicante is represented by Víctor Climent and Olga Bloshchinska.