Final Conference of COST Action “Multi-disciplinary Innovation for Social Change”
The Cost Action and the Estonian Research Council cordially invite you to the final conference of the Action which will take place on the 6th of March, at 09:30-17:00 at the Permanent Representation of Estonia to the EU, Rue Guimard 11/13, 1040 Brussels.
PROGRAMME
09.00-09.30 Registration and Welcoming Coffee
09.30-09.45 Welcome by Dr. Carmen Kivistik, Representative of the Estonian Research Council in Brussels
Welcome by Mr. Marco Carulli, COST Science Officer
09.45- 10.15 “The role of COST and social innovation in the European research and innovation policy”
Mrs Signe Ratso, Deputy General Director for Innovation, Prosperity and International Cooperation, DG
RTD
10.15-10.45 “Social impact measurement, social innovation and funding social impact: lessons learned from impact
bonds and outcomes funds”
Dr. Mara Airoldi, academic director of the Government Outcomes Lab at the Blavatnik School of
Government, University of Oxford
10.45-11.00 Overview of the Cost Action’s Achievements
Dr. Katri-Liis Lepik, Chair of the Cost Action, Associate prof., Tallinn University
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.15 Introduction to the mobile Pan-European Public Sector Innovation Lab
Prof. Pawel Krzyworzeka, Associate professor, Department of Management in the Network
Society, Kozminski University
Learnings from the social hackathon of the Cost Action Training School
SHIELD: Share Your Experience And Move The World
Ms. Luana Scrivano, Clinical Psychologist and PhD Student at the University of
Bologna, currently working with the Division of Psychology and Mental Health at the
University of Manchester
Ms. Tatjana Popovic, Executive Director, Montenegrin Society for Sport Management
Dr. Celina Strzelecka, Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish
Academy of Sciences
12.15-12.30 The Banned Books Museum: A Social Enterprise Experiment
Mr. Joseph Dunnigan, Social Entrepreneur, Banned Books
12.30-13.00 Presentation of Policy Briefs
Prof. Carmen Paunescu, Professor of entrepreneurship at the UNESCO Department for Business
Administration, Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest
Dr. Peter Meister-Broekema, senior researcher, Living Environment in Transition, Hanze University of
Applied Sciences
Dr. Nicholas Spencer, Associate Professor, Northumbria School of Design, Northumbria University
13.00-13.45 Lunch, poster session
13.45-14.30 Policy learnings’ workshops
Sessions led by:
Prof. Carmen Paunescu, Professor of entrepreneurship at the UNESCO Department for Business
Administration, Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest
Dr. Mary McDonnell-Naughton, Senior Lecturer, Technology University of the Shannon Midlands
Midwest
Dr. Peter Meister-Broekema, senior researcher, Living Environment in Transition, Hanze University of
Applied Sciences
Dr. Nicholas Spencer, Associate Professor, Northumbria School of Design, Northumbria University
14.30-14.45 What is the European Social Innovation Competition
Alessia Di Gregorio, Deputy Head of Unit, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
DG GROW Unit GROW G2 – Proximity, social economy, creative industries
14.45- 15.45 Panel discussion of the policy recommendations
Moderator: Dr. Katri-Liis Lepik, Chair of the Cost Action, Associated prof., Tallinn University
Panel speakers:
Ms Miia Rossi-Gray, Policy officer, Directorate-General Employment and Social Inclusion, Unit G3 – Social
and Inclusive Entrepreneurship
Prof. Carmen Paunescu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Dr. Mary McDonnell-Naughton, Technology University of the Shannon
Dr. Peter Meister-Broekema, Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Dr. Nicholas Spencer, Northumbria University
16.00-17.00 Networking reception
This Cost Action involving the academic and business representatives from 38 European countries has been working for the past four years to enhance the Knowledge Alliances between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and enterprises which aim to foster innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, employability, knowledge exchange and/or multidisciplinary teaching and learning. The aim of this Action is to demonstrate, through the adoption of Multi-Disciplinary Innovation (MDI) methods, how we can respond to social problems with a design-led approach which has a problem-oriented ethos, supporting positive social change and the development of international public policy discourse.
The conference aims to present the results achieved with the network and discuss the policy recommendations in the field of higher education institutions and advancement of social innovation in cooperation with the private sector actors and communities.
Entry upon for registered participants with ID card/passport only.
For further information please email Dr. Katri-Liis Lepik, kllepik@tlu.ee or Carmen Kivistik carmen.kivistik@etag.ee (Representative of Estonian Research Council in Brussels).