The Atlantic Social Lab project in Cork recently funded a mentoring project which contributed to the development of an area based plan for the Ballyvolane/Dublin Hill area of Cork City, using Planning for Real approaches. Developing an area based plan in this way facilitates a process whereby people living in local communities can identify the issues of concern to them and be central in leading out and generating solutions.

The Atlas of Social Innovation 2nd Volume: A World of New Practices edited by Jürgen Howaldt, Christoph Kaletka, Antonius Schröder, and Marthe Zirngiebl is now available. The texts are freely accessible online at www.socialinnovationatlas.net.

As part of the Atlantic Social Lab, Enterprise North West organized and facilitated a group of social change actors and influencers to attend the conference and to partake in the overall session as well as the workshop sessions during the days. This group represented the only attendees from the North West of NI.

All is ready in Avilés for the celebration of the 7th coordination meeting and study visits.

Consult here the agenda of the event:

http://www.atlanticsociallab.eu/sites/default/files/2019-09/AgendaASL%20-%20Aviles%20-%2012-13%20sept.pdf

On the 13th September Avilés Municipality (Spain) will be organizing a Workshop on Social Clauses. The event will be held within the project Atlantic Social LAB will be attended by all project partners and it will have a as keynote speaker Mr. Javier Palmero Zurdo, Deputy Head of Unit G3, Procurement legislation and enforcement at the European Commission.

The Workshop will addressed topics connected to how to integrate the social clauses within the local procurement procedures.

CES Coimbra partner organized, within the context of the INTERREG Atlantic Social Lab (May 9 2019), the International Workshop "Social Innovation and the Role of the State", aimed at discussing social innovation and challenges for public policy.

This video gathered the most important conclusions: social innovation is a complex process that can be seen, in an unpretentious approach, as new ideas that address unmet social needs - and work in practice.

You can see this video in Youtube Channel by clicking here.

The Centre for Social Studies organized, within the framework of the Atlantic Social Lab project on May 9 2019, an International Workshop entitled "Social Innovation and the Role of the State". This workshop, held in Coimbra, aimed at the comprehension of social innovation in the development of public management mechanisms as well as exploring challenges of public policies.

In the framework of the Atlantic Social Lab Project, Cork Council has recorded a video entitled "The Atlantic Social Lab Project: Supporting Social Enterprises & Civic Engagement" 

You can see this video in Youtube Channel by clicking here.

The Atlantic Social Lab project held a Measuring Social Impact Workshop for Social Enterprises in the Lifetime Lab in Cork on the 29th May 2019.

This half-day workshop introduced participants to Impact Measurement for Social Enterprises. It focused on exercises to explore the key concepts, definitions and tools to support social enterprises with measuring the outcomes of their work.

Within the Atlantic Social Lab project, the Centre for Social Studies is organizing an International Workshop entitled "Social Innovation and the Role of the State". The event aims to discuss social innovation, allowing the reflection on the roles of various actors, namely the State, in generating innovative responses to social needs.