Presentación de Gorka Espiau, director de Innovación para las Regiones y Ciudades de The Young Foundation, en la sesión abierta del Máster en Estrategias y Tecnologías para el Desarrollo del 2 de diciembre

1. PLACE BASED
TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENTS

2. 1 Feb 1954
Sept 1969
Michael Young’s
vision for the first
University in the air
opens with the aim
of widening access to
higher educaDon
Oct 1957
Michael created the
Consumers’
AssociaDon, the
precursor to Which?
To help consumers
tackle the issues that
maJer to them
Michael Young, 'the world's most successful entrepreneur of social enterprises,’ for his role in
crea9ng over 60 new organiza9ons worldwide, Professor Daniel Bell, Harvard University.
THEN
April 1990
IniDally covering just four languages, Language Line
was first set up to enable communicaDon between
paDents and staff at the Royal London Hospital in
East London. The local police on the Isle of Dogs
then requested 24 hours a day coverage in 16
languages.
Language Line Services’ Telephone InterpreDng and
TranslaDon Services grew rapidly throughout the
1990s, and the company is now part of the largest
InterpreDng company worldwide providing 170
languages.
1997
27 June 1977
Michael Young
creates the Mutual
Aid Centre to assist
ciDzens in taking
control over their
lives
Named aer Michael Young and formed through
the merger of his two organisaDons, The InsDtute
for Community Studies and Mutual Aid Centre.
Michael Young le a remarkable legacy of ideas and
insDtuDons which had an enormous impact on the
day-to-day lives of the millions of people who use
them and on how we think about our society.
Over the next fiy years the Young FoundaDon, as a
centre for social innovaDon and entrepreneurship,
hopes to have an equally profound impact.
April 2005
NOW Founded by
Michael Young
vehicle for social
research and acDon and
enterprise. Through
which he created over 60
organisaDons and
published hundreds of
reports and books on
social jusDce, equality,
and policy.
Family and kinship in
East London. First
published in 1957,
this vivid and
touching picture of
family life in the East
End of the 1950s is
one of the great
pioneering works of
modern sociology.
55+ years of achievement

3. 3
The Young FoundaJon is a leading independent centre for disrupJve social innovaJon. We create new
movements, insJtuJons and companies that tackle the structural causes of inequality.
We believe structural inequality undermines the economy and corrodes our wellbeing. Lack of opportunity
and limited social mobility destroys lives, leaving its mark on communiDes, relaDonships, aspiraDons and self-
worth.
We work to create a more equal and just society, where each individual can be fulfilled in their own terms.
We believe that liJle about the future of society is inevitable. Bound by our shared humanity, we believe we
collecDvely have the power to shape the socieDes and communiDes we want to live in.
The Young FoundaDon harnesses the power of disrupDve innovaDon to address the causes of inequality. This
innovaDon is based on research, partnerships and pracDcal problem solving. We use it as a tool for change in
the systems that undermine individual responsibility, empowerment and parDcipaDon. We have already
created projects that are opening up new paths to power for marginalised people at the local level.
We create new movements, insDtuDons and companies that empower people to lead happier and more
meaningful lives.
We work with the public and private sectors and civil society to strengthen their posiDve impact on
communiDes.
Join us. We are The Young FoundaJon.
WHAT WE BELIEVE

4. 4
Resources
RepresentaJon RecogniJon
THE BREADTH INEQUALITY

5. 5
Research
• IdenDfy social needs
• Uncover innovaDve soluDons
• Focus on local, naDonal and internaDonal
level research
• Primarily focused on the UK, with some
key projects overseas
Applied InnovaJon
• Enable local soluDons to social problems
• Test what works and what doesn't
• Focus on local and naDonal level projects
• Primarily focused in the UK, with growing
opportuniDes overseas
Ventures
• Develop new organisaDons to address
social problems
• Provide support and funding
• Focus on local level ventures with the
potenDal to scale across the UK and
beyond
• Focused on UK based ventures and
overseas ventures moving into the UK
market
• Strengthen individual products that have
potenDal for high social impact
• “We use the tools of social research, disrupDve social
innovaDon, venturing, strategic design and movement
building. We listen deeply, puhng what people think, feel and
believe – their aspiraDons, their experiences and their lives - at
the heart of everything we do.”
KEY METHODS

8. 5.-Co-creaDng. GeneraDng ideas
6.-Prototyping. Developing and tesDng
9.-Growing, scaling and spreading
1.- Exploring (opportuniDes and challenges)
2.-Observing and Shaping.
ParDcipatory research and community engagement
3.- Analyzing and reflecDng. DeliberaDve process
4.-Framing and represenDng. Storytelling.
7.-Making the case
Waves of transformaJon
Our theory of change
8.- Delivering and implemenDng
10.- Changing systems.
Big and repeDDve waves act as a movement
IteraJon 1 IteraJon 2

9. The first waves are smaller
They get bigger because they go deeper

10. A city-region movement consists on many waves in different neighborhoods.
Interconnected and pushing in the same direcDon.

13. • Understudying the
research
• Exploring the
narraJves
• Seng prioriJes
1. What do we
want to chage?
• Refining prioriJes
• IdenJfying soluJons
• Building teams
2. What soluJons
do we have?
• Backing the best
ideas
• Building support
around them
3. Which soluJons
shall we back?
Accelerator

19. • Niamh/BKN
• Crannog Partnership (Cavanaleck)
• Scouts Centre
• Westville family resource centre
• Pebble in the Pond Park
• AGORA (working Jtle)
• The Churches Trust ltd
• Healthy Ageing Network In Derry
• Holywell - Food & Biodiversity
• FabSocial
• Remedial Arts
• Aferthoughts NI
• Young People Leading Change
• Energenius
• Blackmountain AcJon Group
• PLACE
• Tell It In Colour
• Tearfund
• RCITY
• Ardoyne Youth Club
• Human Library
• City Safari
• The Social Arts project
• Galliagh Women's Group
• Ethical and Shared Remembering
• Boom Hall
•
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THE INNOVATIONS

25. In some communities, even when people try to make change happen or to socially innovate, it is not
recognised by others as a valid action, or is not given ‘permission to act’.
People perceive they cannot do things because people like them are not responsible.
We have also documented that in different contexts communities – individuals or people – have not always
gone along with this idea that they shouldn’t act or cannot help themselves.
They are acting to make change happen all the time but it isn’t recognised.
One way in which communities engage with inequality narratives is by actively countering them. They tell a
different story, share a different vision, and ascribe different meaning to the same facts. We call these
counter-narratives. Counter narratives emerge independently of the dominant narrative and in spite of it.
They draw on community knowledge and community-centric values. (Hodgson 2016)
a new innovation paradigm

26. a new innovation paradign
In certain situations, like in the Basque case, people can generate the permission to act for themselves,
through social means: self-belief, acting on shared values, and by supporting each other. They can tell
themselves that they and others can do something .
They don’t need specific skills or authority .They just need an attitude to be willing to help make change
happen.
This gives them the ‘social permission to act’. It is based and driven by shared values and actions.
The success of community-led innovation is that it is socially and community based. People take actions
and are supported by the community, who often join them because they trust them and believe in their
ideas. (Hodson 2016)
a new innovation paradigm

27. PLACE BASED
TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENTS