SI Policy Toolbox

Introduction

This resource was created to help policy makers at local, regional, national and EU levels reflect on their role in the social innovation milieu. It then offers guidance to help establish the primary conditions for an ecosystem conducive to stimulating, resourcing and sustaining social innovation.

What is it for?

It does not provide a blueprint. Rather it should be used as a means of stimulating critical reflection within public policy making bodies, and constructive dialogue between policy makers and the wider community of stakeholders in each social policy field. Its 24 components can be used as a marker against which to test the effectiveness of current organisational structures and governance arrangements, the quality of stakeholder relationships, and the alignment of administrative and fiscal procedures.

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What's in it for you?

Its ultimate purpose is to promote fresh thinking that leads to real innovation in the way that social policies are conceived and delivered. Power sharing, inclusion, dialogue and trust are the vital ingredients in helping ensure the capability of European welfare systems to meet the needs of the next generation. But they require structural change at the heart of the policy process to make them happen.

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contact

Judith TERSTRIEP
(Coordinator)
Fon: +49 209 17 07-139
Mail: terstriep@iat.eu

Maria KLEVERBECK
Fon: +49 209 17 07-175
Mail: kleverbeck@iat.eu

Westphalian University
Institute for Work and Technology
Innovation, Space & Culture
Munscheidstr. 14
D-45886 Gelsenkirchen

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