Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin)
20.1. Short description The project Neighbourhood Mothers bridges gaps within a multicultural but fragmented society, both pragmatically and symbolically. Based on blueprints from the Netherlands and other German cities, the innovative approach is strictly resource-oriented and neighbourhood-related. Basically, the project developed further the idea of intercultural mediators and mentors helping immigrant families with educational and…
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Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)
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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin)
21.1. Short description Family centres are a complementary offer to kindergartens and day-care institutions pursuing a more holistic approach. Their innovative feature is to empower families by strengthening their competences instead of providing merely services to them that claim to substitute what the respective families cannot provide. This complementary and holistic approach of “family-minded services”…
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Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)
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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin)
The description of innovations presented here can be discussed and developed further in various directions and within various frameworks. Three possible ways – all to be dealt with in the WILCO project – will be sketched here in the conclusive remarks. Social services research: innovations as illustrative examples for a new generation of social services…
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Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)
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75.1. Short description Aylesham, near Dover, was affected by the vacuum left by the colliery closure at Snowdown in 1989. From the community perspective, the problems created by the mine closure were compounded by a succession of further setbacks including the closure of the secondary school in Aylesham, closure of the library, a reduction in…
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Lavinia Mitton, Nadia Brookes and Jeremy Kendall
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76.1. Short description The Happy Feet Pre-school is a registered charity located in one of Dover town’s more underprivileged neighbourhoods. The pre-school is in a very deprived area and the surrounding area suffers from social and economic problems. There is a lot of unemployment, drug addiction, alcoholism and so on. Anti-social behaviour and vandalism are…
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Lavinia Mitton, Nadia Brookes and Jeremy Kendall
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Sustainability For the ANP sustainability is potentially difficult. The relatively large grants from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust that ANP benefited from in the past are no longer available. Instead loans are being offered, but projects such as ANP are wary of entering into these types of obligations. Similarly, they feel that operating by contracts to…
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Lavinia Mitton, Nadia Brookes and Jeremy Kendall
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77.1. Short description In 2002, Inspectors classed the Housing Management Service provided by DDC as poor, with poor prospects for improvement. The inspection team gave the service no stars. The rating may be from 0-3, where 0 is poor and 3 is excellent. Action was needed to do more to make the Council’s homes meet…
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Lavinia Mitton, Nadia Brookes and Jeremy Kendall
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The concept of social innovation, its meaning and understanding is a relatively new approach for all stakeholders, even for the academic community. Social innovation as a driver of change and further development are poorly recognised among stakeholders in Zagreb. Although some of them are quite innovative and creative, they do not express a sufficient understanding…
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Gojko Bežovan, Jelena Matančević and Danijel Baturina (Faculty of law, Zagreb)
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Local background of the social innovations Public and professional debates about growth and regeneration Across all the examples of social innovation presented here, a consensus emerged among officials and policymakers about the importance of economic growth to Dover District Council (DDC) and the importance of the Council to the growth agenda. The key word used…
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Lavinia Mitton, Nadia Brookes and Jeremy Kendall (University of Kent)
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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin)
Local background of the social innovations Social innovations do not come “out of the blue” but capitalise on different resources, e.g. human capital and public support, available at the locality where they are developed and put into practice. Moreover, social innovations, perceived as indicators and messengers, respond to social problems occurring at a particular time…
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Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)
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