ATLANTIC SOCIAL LAB Atlantic cooperation for the promotion of social innovation 4TH ATLANTIC STAKEHOLDER PLATFORM CONFERENCE Glasgow, 8 th November 2017
WHO WE ARE Ayuntamiento de Avilés (Avilés Municipality) Área de Bienestar Social (Social Welfare Area)
WHERE ARE WE Avilés Municipality is the local authority of Avilés city. The city is situated in the North of Asturias, and has 80.508 inhabitants.
WHAT DO WE DO The Welfare Services department provides a comprehensive array of social services to the local community ranging from citizen participation to housing or employment, leading to achieve the social cohesion in the city.
SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT MUNICIPALITY OF AVILES ACCESIBILITY INNOVATION ACOMPANYING TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT UNIVERSALITY SOCIAL SERVICES PROXIMITY HOUSING Town Plannig Area Local Police Mobility and Urrban Service Culture and Sport Area Fnance and Promotion of the city Human Resources Area EMPOWERMENT EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PARITY SERVICE COHESION AND WELFARE EDUCATION QUALITY NETWORKING MEDIATION CITIZIEN PARTICIPATION CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH COOPERATION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Secretaria Intervención
ATLANTIC SOCIAL LAB MUNICIPALITY OF AVILES Strategic lines Promoting economic, sustainable and responsible growth Commitment with innovation and knowledge Promoting training and employment Priority for inclusion and social cohesion. Municipality Resources Budget 71.903.506 Workers: Direct: 610 Indirect: + 500
ATLANTIC SOCIAL LAB OUR PROJECT
WHY ARE WE HERE Avilés Municipality will be leading the project: They will act as a driving force They will mobilize the partners in order to achieve the objectives of the project They will closely work with the Regional Government for the project capitalization.
ATLANTIC SOCIAL LAB General Information PROJECT TITLE ACRONYM CODE DURATION PRIORITY SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE PROJECT BUDGET Atlantic cooperation for the promotion of social innovation Atlantic Social LAB EAPA_246/2016 01/05/2017 to 31/10/2019 (30 months) Innovation 1.1. Enhancing innovation capacity through cooperation to foster competitiveness 1,643,000
THE PARTNERSHIP
THE PARTNERSHIP EXPERIMENTATION ANALYSIS 3. Glasgow Caledonian University 1. Avilés Municipality - Social Welfare Department 2. Santiago de Compostela City Council 4. Enterprise North West 5. Cork City Council 6. Regional Chamber of social and solidarity economy of Bretagne 7. Agglomeration Community of Pau- Pyrénées 9. ADRAVE Regional Development Agency of Vale do Ave 8. Centre for Social Studies - University of Coimbra EVALUATION
WHAT? Atlantic Social Lab aims to develop and promote social innovation approaches and methods to give response to key growing social issues of the Atlantic Area, both within citizens, third sector and social enterprises as well as the public sector. in the following areas: Welfare services, Active public engagement, Green inclusive economy and Social responsibility in the private sector.
HOW ARE WE GOING TO Create a socially inclusive and sustainable model of regional development?
THROUGH ANALYSIS ATLANTIC SOCIAL LAB INNOVATION MAPPING The aim? to analyse what are the current unaddressed needs of the population emerging as a consequence of renewed social preferences and structural changes (demography, staff shortages, technological innovations, etc.). How? Mapping and analysis of the social need: - literature review - focus groups with other local and regional departments involved in the social services - meetings with the stakeholders
THROUGH ANALYSIS Stakeholders partnership: - Partners will create stakeholder groups to identify the main social concerns. Meetings Public consultations Identification of social needs Feedback
THROUGH ANALYSIS Social Needs in the Atlantic Area and Benchmarking: - Produce a final report on the Atlantic Area main social needs along with the selection of Best Practices on the common social challenges identified Drawing a joint map of the main common social needs and challenges in the AA
THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION After the identification of the main unmet social needs, partners will be implementing in their territories pilot actions to test on the filed innovative and new solutions to address the common challenges. Partners will create 4 working groups, one for each area of intervention of the project: Social innovation & welfare services Social innovation & active public engagement Green inclusive economy Social economy and social responsibility in the private sector COMMON LAB UNIT TO TEST NEW SOLUTIONS
THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION The project will implement an array of pilot actions in the 4 selected thematic areas: A. Support for social enterprise (training and services to support the creation of new social enterprises) Partner : Cork City Council B. Masterclasses events with local schools and young people around social enterprise and social innovation. Partner : Enterprise North West
THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION C. Civic engagement (new ICT tool and procedures to foster civil participation) Partner : Cork City Council Partner : Santiago Concello D. Community recycling projects improvements in terms of market viability Partners : CRESS Bretagne & Enterprise North West
THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION E. Public procedure implementation including social clauses and social responsibility Partner : Avilés Municipality F. Creation of new schemes and working groups to foster the social inclusion of the group at risk of exclusion with the social services. Partner : Avilés Municipality
THROUGH EVALUATION The partnership wants to design a Social and economic self-evaluation Kit with appropriate indicators to assess the impact of the social innovation initiatives.
AND ALWAYS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS The project partners are pooling together a sound partnership of policy makers. NGOs, associations within the Stakeholder Partnerships, will also play a key role since they will disseminate and transfer the projects results. And the Atlantic Social Lab Ambassadors will help us in the communication and capitalization of the project outputs.
HOW DO WE WANT TO SHARE OUR KNOWLEDGE? Through the ATLANTIC SOCIAL INNOVATION OBSERVATORY, that will act as a Social Innovation Lighthouse
THE ATLANTIC SOCIAL INNOVATION OBSERVATORY The Lighthouse keepers: Workshop 1 Social enterprises Glasgow, September 2018 Glasgow Caledonian University Workshop 2 Public management & Social Innovation Coimbra, May 2019 Centre for Social Studies- University of Coimbra
AND THE FINAL CONFERENCE The partnership will also organize a Final Conference and Capitalization event, organized in Pau in July 2019, under the motto Promoting social change The event aims at: - Showcasing the project outputs - Providing testimonies from the main beneficiaries - Present the impact of the social innovation in the AA You are all invited to visit us and attend the Conference! (The event will be announced in advance through the web, social media, mailing and publications)
Expected results 7 pilot actions to test social innovation 1 Evaluation kit to assess the impact of social innovation initiatives 4 technical and scientific publications
Expected results 4 policy, strategy and operational instruments: Mapping Social Needs in the Atlantic Area. Atlantic Social Innovation Action Plan. Benchmarking of Good Practices from the pilot actions. Atlantic Monitoring Observatory on Social Innovation. Several dissemination events involving 900 participants
ATLANTIC SOCIAL LAB Thanks for your attention!