Twelve elected District Councillors attended this event, discussing the findings of the WILCO UK research team on social innovation in welfare services in Dover.
The Birmingham grassroots event resulted in great interest for linking WILCO research findings to local platforms like the Birmingham Social Inclusion Process.
The WILCO team will meet for its final consortium in Brussels on Thursday, 30th of January.
WILCO researcher Laurent Fraisse presented some of the outputs of the WILCO research on social innovation in the local governance of welfare services
Discussion topics included how to increase the participation of socially vulnerable people and how to balance the requirements of professional organisations and the expectations of active citizens.
The event was titled “The City between Vulnerability and Innovation” and addressed policy-makers, scholars, civil society activists and interested members of the public.
How can new welfare challenges across Europe be tackled in a fresh and innovative way? And how to make bottom-up innovation sustainable through new models of governance?
This event featured two WILCO seminars with around 60 participants, representing public and private sectors, civil society, and universities.
An open conference will be organized to disseminate the results of WILCO at the European level at the end of 2013. Members of WILCO’s four main audience groups –…
