3. URBACT Social Innovation in Urban Communities:
3 key areas…
Sustainable food-related
entrepreneurship
Food literacy and
resilience
Food governance and
the city agenda
6. What are cities doing to facilitate
social innovation?
Reducing costs
with more
experimentation
Allowing failure
Public money to kick-
start initiatives
Social innovation
platforms
Creating the right
conditions for
experimentation
Leaving space for
civil servants
Making space for
citizens in calls for
projects
Public procurement and
social innovation
Blended
forms
7. Ensuring a good distribution of
engagement in social
innovation among the city
population
Ensuring a good distribution of
engagement in social
innovation among the city
population
Managing conflicts with
collaborative services and
traditional services
Managing conflicts with
collaborative services and
traditional services
Exploring potential of citizens
engagement in public services
Exploring potential of citizens
engagement in public services
new solutions for daily living
emerges from social innovation
towards the creation of new
services and therefore new
job opportunities?
new solutions for daily living
emerges from social innovation
towards the creation of new
services and therefore new
job opportunities?
Social innovation is also generating
a 'self-service' society where
part of the goods and services
citizens will benefit from will be self-
produced…
Social innovation is also generating
a 'self-service' society where
part of the goods and services
citizens will benefit from will be self-
produced…
The conception of job is
splitting in 'paid job' generating
financial incomes and
'personal/project job' generating
goods/services outside the monetary
economy…
The conception of job is
splitting in 'paid job' generating
financial incomes and
'personal/project job' generating
goods/services outside the monetary
economy…
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