Getting involved in Social Innovation Research – participation and
experimentation
David Ludlow, Centre for Research in Sustainable Planning and
Environments, University of the West of England
Getting involved in Social Innovation Research –
participation and experimentation
 Experimentation – new ways of conducting research
and organising knowledge
 Lessons from parallel projects
 How to interact with national and EU funded
research
 Practical steps in building partnerships
 Organising continuing work in this area
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 SEISMIC
helps tackle Europe’s biggest urban
problems by engaging citizens, identifying social
innovation needs, and contributing to future urban
policies and research strategies
 Builds
diverse networks of urban stakeholders to
propose effective, widely agreed solutions. It then
engages the public in creative ways, so that research
learns from citizens, and citizens learn from research
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 SEISMiC
creates a platform to discuss and explore
paths of integrated urban development
 Contributes
to JPI Urban Europe by adding a social
dimension to its Strategic Research and Innovation
Agenda as well as making sure a wider selection
of stakeholders participate in the JPI Urban Europe
Forum
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 Articulate
visions for sustainable urban futures identifying key challenges in urban development and
how tackled through social innovation
 Address governance issues and alternative ways of
providing services needed in urban societies
 Explore relationships with formal research support
(esp. Horizon 2020 & JPI Urban Europe)
 Assist existing key actors to promote their work and
reinforce their interaction
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 Articulate
visions for sustainable urban futures identifying key challenges in urban development and
how tackled through social innovation
 Example
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Urban Nexus Project
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 Address
governance issues and alternative ways of
providing services needed in urban societies
 Integrated
urban management
 Smart city governance
 Social and technology innovation
 Example UrbanAPI Project
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 Explore
relationships with formal research support
 Horizon
2020 and JPI Urban Europe
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 INSO
1 2015 – 28 May 2015
 INSO 9 2014/15 – 16 December 2014
 EURO 6 2015 – 28 May 2015
 Typically
3 year 5 meuro
 Pan-European multi-stakeholder partnerships
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Public administrations need to address the new challenges
posed by the evolution of society
 The take-up of new technologies, such as social media and
mobile technologies, leads to increased connectivity
 The availability of open data and open services, in an open
government setting support the collaborative forms of service
design and delivery and they increase transparency
 Personalised public services can arise from enabling and
empowering citizens and businesses to directly participate in
the design, creation, selection and delivery of some of the
public services.
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Pressure on all public administrations to provide efficient,
open and citizen-centric public services
 Due to the increased use of mobile technology as well as the
increasing availability of public information, data and online
services, public services can be transformed
 Coupling open public data and services with information and
services offered by the private sector can lead to innovative,
user-friendly and personalised services that can be accessed
easily
 Aim is to help the interaction of citizens and businesses with
public administrations – for example - combination of public
and private sector services, through mobile technologies
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Essential to promote innovation to foster efficient, open
citizen-centric public services. This innovation also addresses
the challenge of social change and user needs
 To improve efficiency, effectiveness and quality of public
services, the public sector needs to implement new processes,
products, services and methods of delivery
 Further research, identifying the specific challenges of the
public sector, such as policy domain requirements and the
needs of targeted citizens or businesses is needed
 Requires multidisciplinary research taking into account the
societal, political as well as human factors, including citizens
and civil servants - where relevant involving users and citizens
in the design of public services is critical
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 JPI
Urban Europe´s third call – the ERA-NET Smart
Cities and Communities (ENSCC) – in cooperation
with the Smart Cities Member States Initiative, will
open in winter 2014/2015
 Total amount of approximately 20M€ in joint public
 Funding provided by national and regional funding
agencies from twelve European countries (Austria,
Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway,
Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and
Turkey)
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topics: Smart integrated urban energy and
transport systems, Smart tools and services for
integrated urban energy and transport systems,
Smart big data and Smart governance and Smart
citizens.
 Two-stage procedure will be adopted for proposals.
In the first stage, consortia are invited to submit preproposals.
 Submission of pre-proposals - 50 pre-proposals
selected - then elaborate full proposals
 Deadline for pre-proposals - end of March 2015.
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