Social innovation addresses social needs through new ideas or combinations of existing ideas. TESE aims to anticipate and promote innovative solutions to emerging social needs through partnerships. It adds value by being involved from early identification of needs to implementation of solutions. Projects include increasing adult education access in Guinea-Bissau through extended school hours, literacy classes, and training local technicians to install and maintain solar panels.

2. AVISO
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uma perspectiva única que valha a
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3. WHAT IS SOCIAL INNOVATION?
Social Innovation is present in different subjects
carbon trading pre-school
hospices online tax
restorative justice transactions programmes
innovation
camp magazines sold by social ventures Pledgebanks
fair trade the homeless
microcredit incubators
therapeutic positive deviance
zero carbon timebanks
communities housing
community wind farms
production distance learning
schools participatory budgets police
social slow food community
open eco-cities support officers
innovation source world wide
criminal assets
health web
recovery
corporate collaboratives
personal budgets
universities skunk works personalisation
co-production
congestion non-emergency
phone numbers cognitive behavioural
charging online learning therapy for prisoners
drug courts platforms
wikipedia consumer co-operatives

4. WHAT IS SOCIAL INNOVATION?
New ideas that work in meeting a social need (current or forthcoming)
Sometimes they are just new combinations or hybrids of existing elements,
rather then being wholly new in themselves
Mobilize people, resources, organizations for common social problems
EVERY NEW TRUTH PASSES
THROUGH THREE PHASES
First, it is ignored
Second, it is violently opposed
Third, it is accepted as
being self-evident
Schopenhauer

5. WHAT IS TESE?
“BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT
TO SEE IN THE WORLD”
Mohandas Gandhi
VISION
TESE wants to be the lead
organization in anticipating and
promoting innovative solutions that
best meet emerging social needs
MISSION
TESE creates and implements
innovative responses that best
promote social development,
equal opportunities and quality of
life, creating partnerships with
public, private, and organization
of civil society

6. WHAT IS TESE´S
POSITION?
An organization of reference in
the third sector in Portugal and
developing countries
We add effective value because
we are involved from the early
identification of new needs to the
creation and implementation of
innovative solutions
We learned from the experience
on the ground and continuously
renew the cycle
We are present in key areas of
national and international
platforms of experience and
knowledge sharing

7. PROJECTS TESE
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8. LUZ BIN
PROJECT
MAIN GOAL: Increase adult’s
access to education/literacy
(women in particular) in Bafatá
Region, Guinea-Bissau.1
STRATEGY: Increase afternoon
school time, allow for adult literacy
classes at night and build up
capacity of school boards, village
committees and local technicians
TARGET GROUPS: ~ 7000 adult
women and children
1
Adult Literacy Rate (15-49 years) in
Guinea-Bissau is only 28.6% (2006 data)

9. WHAT Community mobilization and
awareness raising on the
importance of education
WE DID
towards development
Installation of photovoltaic
systems in 29 community schools
for additional school hours, with
minimum running costs
Provided School Boards and
Village Committees with the
tools necessary for sustainable
management of additional school
hours and demand for classes
Trained new educators in adult
literacy methods to meet
increased demand
Installation by local technicians,
giving them training and support
to start their own company

10. WHY NOT?
TAKE A RISK AND BE
PART OF TESE
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