European Community of Practice

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Sharing experiences and knowledge between people in different countries taking part in the Innovation & Mainstreaming Community of Practice (CoP)  has helped to identify management practices in several ESF programmes that have clearly had a positive impact on quality and innovation in the projects and action that they support.

In essence three factors have made social innovation possible in EQUAL:

Location(s)

 The potential of social experimentation to be an innovative and powerful policy instrument for combatting poverty, with a view to strengthening development within the EU, will be the subject of discussion at the Forum on Social Experimentation in Europe organised by Martin Hirsch, the High Commissioner for Active Inclusion against Poverty, which will be held in Gre

Check out the videos, photos and reports from the workshop on social innovation in Lisbon on October 27th. Click on the links from this page to see pictures, texts and drawings of individual sessions or go here to see the videos.

Overview

Activity picked up in September in preparation for the Lisbon workshop, EU Open Days and Steering Group meeting which will all take place in October.

Reflections and next steps...