Objective
SI-DRIVE extends knowledge about social innovation (SI) in three major directions:
- Integrating theories and research methodologies to advance understanding of SI leading to a comprehensive new paradigm of innovation.
- Undertaking European and global mapping of SI, thereby addressing different social, economic, cultural, historical and religious contexts in eight major world regions.
- Ensuring relevance for policy makers and practitioners through in-depth analyses and case studies in seven policy fields, with cross European and world region comparisons, foresight and policy round tables.
SI-DRIVE involves 15 partners from 12 EU Member States and 10 from other parts of the world. The approach adopted carefully interlinks the research process to both the complexity of the topic and the project workflow. First, cyclical iteration between theory development, methodological improvements, and policy recommendations. Second, two mapping exercises at European and global level. Initial mapping will capture basic information about 1000+ actual successful and failed social innovations from a wide variety of sources worldwide, leading to a typology of SI (testing the SI perspectives proposed by the BEPA report) and using this to examine the global SI distribution. Subsequent mapping will use the typology to focus on well documented SI, leading to the selection of 10 cases each for in-depth analysis in the seven SI-DRIVE Policy Fields. Third, these case studies will be further analysed, used in stakeholder dialogues in 7 policy field platforms and in analysis of cross-cutting dimensions (e.g. gender, diversity, ICT), carefully taking into account cross-sector relevance (private, public, civil sectors), and future impact.
The outcomes of SI-DRIVE will address all objectives required by the Call, cover a broad range of research dimensions, impacting particularly in terms of changing society and empowerment, and contributing to the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy.
Call for proposal
FP7-SSH-2013-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
44227 Dortmund
Germany
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Participants (28)
45897 Gelsenkirchen
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2595 DA Den Haag
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E2 9PF London
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UB8 3PH Uxbridge
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1150 Wien
1210 Wien
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48007 Bilbao
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10040 Zagreb
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1113 Sofia
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201 22 Malmo
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02189 Vilnius
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50127 Firenze
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800654 Galati
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34469 Maslak Istanbul
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11361 Cairo
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160000 Vologda
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310027 Hangzhou
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7701 Rondebosch
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Santiago De Chile
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Bogota
400088 Mumbai
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2006 Sydney
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H3C 3P8 Montreal
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1210 Bruxelles
11001 Bogota Dc
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M5B 2K3 Toronto
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1150 Wien
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BD7 1DP Bradford
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