(10 August 2017) – The second Social Innovation Community (SIC) Summer School was held in Bologna, Italy, from June 26 to June 30th. Presentations from the event are now available online.
The event was arranged by the SIC partners, including AEIDL, the University of Bologna and the European School of Social Innovation.
SUMSIC 2017 explored the role of regions as possible ecosystems for social innovation and had more than 40 participants from across the globe.
In this respect, a special emphasis was devoted to the importance of history and culture of a region for the development of such ecosystem, as well as the role of institutions, private and public, to support and facilitate such development.
The discussion was always be orientated to assess the policy relevance of the topics examined.