European Community of Practice

A social reporter's toolbox has been produced for organisers and social reporters who want to create a shared memory of an event and to extend the conversation beyond face-to-face. Social reporting is an innovative way of using free (or inexpensive) tools and technologies to capture peer-to-peer insights and publish them online. Download this "toolbox" here.

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:

This was a summary of a study presented at Grenoble Forum on Social Experimentation in Europe. It's an analysis, almost a balance about social experiments in Europe in the last few years. It was done specifically for the meeting in Grenoble but the initiative came from the French Presidency and the French High Commission for Active Solidarity against Poverty.

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.