1. DenokInn presents SI Park: The firstSocial Innovation Park in EuropeSIX and the City Summer School.Singapore. 15/17 September 2010

2. Social Innovation leaders have a long tradition of collaborative projects but a business park fully dedicated to this field has never been experienced in Europe. The Social Innovation Park (SI Park) will host in the Greater Bilbao area of Northern Spain consolidated social enterprises and emerging innovation projects aiming to create the new “Social Silicon Valley”. All of them will benefit from the new resources incorporated in this initiative: the Social Innovation Laboratory (G-Lab), the Social Innovation Academy, the Social Enterprise Generator and the Social Angels Club.

3. 1.-Social Innovation LaboratorySI Park will host within the last hand made tune boat in the Basque region (see picture) a laboratory for identifying emerging social tendencies (G-Lab) applying participatory democracy methodologies successfully tested by Innovalab. G-Lab will evaluate current social services provided by the public administration to design and develop innovative testbeds. SI Park will operate under an open innovation framework, with membership annually determining potential areas of laboratory research. As a priority, G-Lab´s research will be royalty-free to all institutions present in Bilbao and it will be associated to the leading international networks of social innovation laboratories.

4. 2.-Social Innovation AcademySI Park will provide on-site and on-line training to bring fresh ideas to services provided by third sector institutions, organizations and enterprises. The Social Innovation Academy will offer a regularly-scheduled programs: intensive training for civil servants, project-based education, and welcoming “spin off” training centres from the most successful entrepreneurial schools. For this purpose, SI Park is partnering with the Social Innovation Global Academy project.

5. 3.-Social Enterprise GeneratorCollaborating entities within the SI Park will be offered the opportunity to incubate new social enterprises and emerging tendencies identified by the G-lab will encourage SI Park membership to launch new projects.The new innovation entrepreneurs will be trained, mentored, and evaluated by SI Park staff, incorporating the know-how present in a privileged social environment. SI Park will also host a pilot project led by DenokInn to generate social and cooperative enterprises under an innovative approach. Local institution will allow social income receptors to test new entrepreneurial initiatives without loosing their benefits. The DenokInn pilot will allow a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises to be located in the park, integrating related experiences successfully tested in Sweden and France.

6. 4.-Why in Bilbao?The Basque region of Spain has a long tradition of a vibrant economy powered by a deep social approach. This is the homeland of Mondragon Cooperative Corporation and the Guggenheim Museum. The Basque area has also demonstrated a successful history in terms of socio-economic regeneration. According to the UN Human Development Index parameters, the Basque region ranks as the world´s most socially balanced countries.

7. 5.-Challenges for SIX and the City Summer School.This project aims to offer a new sustainable approach to the co-design and management of large scale social innovation ventures but to make this dream real, the contribution of SIX global community is required. Please help us responding to the following challenges:1.- How can SI Park contribute to other social innovation projects present in Singapore?2.- Could SI Park be the first step towards a global network of Social Innovation Parks?3.- What are your suggestions to make SI Park even more innovative? Thank you for joining us in this new adventure.If you are interestedin receiving more information about the SI Park Please contact Gorka Espiau at gespiau@denokinn.eu