Substantial investment has been made in social innovation across Europe leading to the development of many models with potential to address social, health and environmental challenges. Even models which have been demonstrated to be effective face significant barriers gaining traction and influence within complex, contested systems such as public services.
Genio is hosting this seminar which will discuss recently completed research and practical examples of how social innovations can scale across complex systems in Europe. The seminar will hear from leaders who are championing the scaling of social innovations at an EU and national level. The presentations will be grounded in the opportunities and challenges of scaling and will focus on the reality of how successful scaling takes place in practice. The seminar will draw on the expertise of senior EU and national leaders and will feature the key lessons from a report on a €45m programme in Ireland, the Service Reform Fund which involved the scaling of innovative, citizen-centred models of practice across complex social and health systems, using a combination of public and philanthropic funding. This programme was studied by a research team over a five-year period and new insights on how scaling actually takes place will be shared.
Date: Thursday 12 January 2023
Time: 15:00 to 16:15 CET
Location: Zoom – Register to join
Agenda
15.00 Welcome – Professor Brian MacCraith, Chair, Genio Trust.
15.05 Opening address: The importance of scaling social innovation in Europe – a perspective from DG Research and Innovation – Signe Ratso, Deputy Director General, DG Research and Innovation.
15.20 Social Innovation and Public Policy - Alfonso Lara-Montero, Chief Executive, European Social Network
15.30 Scaling Social Innovation in the public sector - the Irish experience - Bob Jordan, CEO Housing Agency, Joseph Doyle, National Lead Social Inclusion, Health Services Executive & Dr. John Healy, Deputy Executive Director, Genio
15.50 Lessons from the research on scaling in complex systems – a programme of national social innovation scaling - Dr. Niamh Lally, Principal Investigator, Service Reform Fund, Genio
16.05 Concluding remarks - Stefan Schäfers, Director of European & International Development, King Baudouin Foundation
16.15 Close
This event is being hosted by the Genio Trust in collaboration with the FUSE Consortium. Genio is a nonprofit organisation which applies specific methodologies and approaches to scale social innovations within complex systems across Ireland and Europe. The FUSE Consortium operates across Ireland, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Portugal to build a strong network of cross-sector stakeholders and promoters of social innovation at a national and EU level.
