Official language: EN

Translation service in IT will be provided

Cities are the ideal leverage platforms for social innovation, as they represent whole ecosystems where to create and diffuse new or established strategies and actions for generating integrated urban development for economic, social and environmental impact. The notions of social innovation and ecosystem are strictly interrelated, as there cannot be a shared set of solutions enacted by a collective of actors without processes that are social by design.

The next EU programming period 2021 – 2027 could represent an opportunity to further develop the work that many cities in Europe are performing on social innovation.

The workshop is aimed to bring together representatives from Italian metropolitan cities, EU institutions, social innovation communities, relevant national and international stakeholders, with a twofold purpose: advocating for social innovation to be recognised in the next EU programming period as a key strategy to design and deliver urban actions; to position cities as a relevant European actor on social innovation in order to foster better cooperation with international organisations and networks committed to promote innovative social policies.

PROGRAMME

Registration: 09.00 – 09:30

09:30 Welcome by host and chair

Paola Pisano, Deputy Mayor for Innovation and Smart City, City of Turin

Gianfranco Presutti, City of Turin

Fabrizio Barbiero, City of Turin

Fabio Sgaragli, Head of Innovation, Fondazione G Brodolini

9:45- 10:00 Key note presentation

Findings from the EU Report “The support of ESF to Social Innovation”

Presenter: Costanza Paganini, Fondazione G Brodolini

10:00 – 11:00 Input presentations

The CITY level (visions, needs and challenges)

Filipe Almeida, Manager of Portugal Inovação Social

Giorgio Martini, Managing Director National Agency for Territorial Cohesion

Jeanne Barseghian, Councillor Eurometropole of Strasbourg

Clara Callegaris, Head of Smart City Unit, City of Milan

Carlos De Sousa Santos, Youth Programme Coordinator Municipality of Braga

Sophie Le Grand, European Funds Project Manager Municipality of Paris

Filipe Jorge Ribeiro de Almeida, Manager of Portugal Inovação Social City of Braga

Magda Skiba, Head of International Cooperation Municipality of Gdansk

11:00 – 12:00 Input presentations

The INTERNATIONAL level (instruments and funding opportunities)

Raffaele Barbato, Project Coordinator Urban Innovative Action - UIA

Anna Lisa Boni, Secretary general EUROCITIES

Simina Lazar, Communication & Capitalisation Officer URBACT Operational programme III

Representatives from DG Regio, DG Employment, DG Connect, ILO

12:00 – 12:30 Input presentations

Q&A

12:30 – 12:45 Conclusions and next steps

12:45 Networking lunch

Click here for more information: http://www.openinnovationsummit.org/