FuSIon Fest - The Social Innovation Festival is taking place in Northern Ireland.

Innovation should be more than economic growth, that's why Building Change Trust (BCT) have called for social innovation to be treated on a par with business Research & Development (R&D). As s result of that FuSIon Fest is being organised by Innovate-NI and hosted by CBT. The festival takes place in Derry/Londonderry and Belfast for two days.   At the time this article is being written EBN and EU|BIC Business Development Friesland (BDF) are hosting a workshop on social innovation from an EU perspective. The session presents a new flagship programme funded by the European Commission, DG Grow, the Social Challenges Innovation Platform aiming at supporting social innovation players from different sectors, different thematic areas and different geographical contexts.

EBN partner of the project together with Meta Group and Impact Hub, shows hand in hand with BDF the social innovation challenges active in the platform, like the one presented by Spare Space.

Socialchallenge.eu is now collecting social solutions for social challenges. If you are interested in being a solution provider check the social challenges already available and apply to get 30000€ grant and mentoring support.

More social innovation opportunities run by EBN: FIBIA and Compass.

Social Innovation: an EU perspective