\u201cSocial innovations do not happen by themselves. Throughout their life cycle, they need to be supported and nurtured if they are to make an impact on society and the economy.\u201d Empowering people, driving change \u2013 social innovation in the European Union, European Commission, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In September 2016 started the ERASMUS+ project Senior Social Entrepreneuring<\/em> The context for the project and at the same time the key messages from Commission policy<\/p>\n\n\n\n The project objective is to mobilize teams of seniors in participating project communities and beyond to build capacity among them to serve as SOCIAL CHANGE BROKERS in these communities, spotting social change needs, bringing together relevant stakeholders and citizens and facilitate or drive the social change process, and to exploit the social change processes to sustain their activity through creating appropriate organizational frameworks, be it as volunteers, association members, employees, consultants or social service providers. The project brings together 3 top priorities in Europe 2020 policy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n PERSPECTIVES<\/p>\n\n\n\n The project\u2019s European network, developed along the project, will serve as platform for further European initiatives, as social innovation driven by citizens (in this case seniors) will need time to fully unfold. New initiatives can build on the lessons learned from the Senior Social Entrepreneuring project and from similar projects, and might address a variety of European funding measures. 14 In particular, the project aims to create a qualified EaSI initiative to be submitted in 2016 or 2017, taking the Senior Social Entrepreneuring and similar projects to a systemic and mainstreaming level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Partners:<\/p>\n\n\n\n City of Aarhus Denmark, University of Chester UK, Pistes-Solidaires France E-Seniors, Paris France, Association GENERATIONS Bulgaria,The Chamber of Commerce of Sabadell Spain, National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing Italy,Working with Europe, Spain<\/p>\n\n\n\n KA204-2016-001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cSocial innovations do not happen by themselves. Throughout their life cycle, they need to be supported and nurtured if they are to make an impact on society and the economy.\u201d Empowering people, driving change \u2013 social innovation in the European Union, European Commission, 2011. In September 2016 started the ERASMUS+ project Senior Social Entrepreneuring The context […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1137,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n\n