Trans-Atlantic Platform: Social Innovation – Learning from Multinational Collaboration

Welcome

This conference brings together the Trans-Atlantic Platform Social Innovation grant holders and their cooperation partners (stakeholders), other Social Innovation experts, and Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) funding agency representatives in an online event.

The conference aims to

explore outcomes of the 10 T-AP Social Innovation projects funded,
share knowledge on how to implement innovative research concepts to meet social needs,
develop a common understanding of pivotal issues in collaborative Social Innovation research,
consider the impact and sustainability of Social Innovation projects in the humanities and social sciences,
make recommendations specifically geared to future multinational Social Innovation research demands,
give feedback for Funding Agencies that could help to improve the process for future T-AP calls.

The T-AP Social Innovation projects both add to understandings of social innovation and deliver social innovation(s) through new research. The focus of the conference is on what Social Innovation research can learn from multinational collaboration by

comparing social challenges faced on both sides of the Atlantic,
learning from the experiences of multisectoral collaboration for Social Innovation practiced on both sides of the Atlantic,
applying and adapting approaches from one locale to another,
generalizing and/or scaling-up of local experiences.

Read more about the event here:
Conference Description with Programme (Long Version, PDF)-

Programme

Day 1: 16^th November 2022

Time (CET)¹	Programme Item
14:30-15:00	Check-in (Login to the Online Meeting and Test of Connection)
15:00	Welcome and Introduction
15:10	Welcome Notes Federal Ministry of Education and Research – BMBF Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – SSHRC Economic and Social Research Council – UKRI-ESRC São Paulo Research Foundation – FAPESP
15:40	Opening Keynote ‘Social Innovation: Reflections on Research and Practice’
16:10	Overview of the Conference (Chair): Conference Aims and Organization
	Session 1 ‘Context Conditions and Impact’ T-AP PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
16:20	Presentation: ‘Collaboration for Social Innovation: Scaling for Impact (COLLABORATION)’ Download Presentation (PDF)
16:30	Presentation: ‘Social Innovation Processes in and around Multinational Companies: The Role of Social Activists and their Transnational Networks (SOCIAL INNOVATION IN MULTINATIONALS)’ Download Presentation (PDF)
16:40	Presentation: ‘User-Valued Innovations for Social Housing Upgrading through Trans-Atlantic Living Labs (uVITAL)’ Download Presentation (PDF)
16:50	Discussion of Presentations (COLLABORATION, SOCIAL INNOVATION IN MULTINATIONALS and uVITAL)
17:05	Break
17:20	GROUP WORK Session 1: Questions for Discussion: Group A: What is the upscaling potential of the innovation, and can it also apply to other fields and circumstances? Group B & C: What were the specific context conditions that led to the innovation, and how did the process from some creative act to a social innovation process unfold? Learnings and Recommendations
18:00	Reporting from the Groups
	Session 2 ‘Collaboration and Meeting Needs’ T-AP PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
18:35	Presentation: ‘Social Pharmaceutical Innovation for Unmet Medical Needs (SPIN)’ Download Presentation (PDF)
18:45	Presentation: ‘New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research: Social Innovation Management for BIOPlastics (SIMBIO)’ Download Presentation (PDF)
18:55	Discussion of Presentations (SPIN and SIMBIO)
19:10	Short Wrap-up
19:15	End of Day 1

¹The schedule is due to the availability of the 10 research teams which are located in North and South America and Europe.

Day 2: 17^th November 2022

Time (CET)¹	Programme Item
14:30-15:00	Check-in (Login to the Online Meeting and Test of Connection)
15:00	Overview on Conference Day 2
	Session 3 ‘Narratives, Advocacy and Voice’ T-AP PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
15:20	Presentation: ‘Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery (DATAS)’ Download Presentation (PDF)
15:30	Presentation: ‘Colonization of the Sacred Places of the Xavante Territory of Marãiwatsédé and São Marcos (XAVANTE)’ Download Presentation (PDF)
15:40	Presentation: ‘Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation (WPC)’ Download Presentation (PDF)
15:50	Presentation: ‘Socially Innovative Interventions to Foster and to Advance Young Children’s Inclusion and Agency in Society through Voice and Story (ADVOST)’ Download Presentation (PDF)
16:00	Presentation: ‘Social Innovation through Participatory Art and Design with Youth at the Margins: Solutions for Engaging and Empowering Youth with Trans-Atlantic Mirroring (SEEYouth)’ Download Presentation (PDF)
16:10	Discussion of Presentations (DATAS, XAVANTE, WPC, ADVOST, and SEEYouth)
16:30	GROUP WORK Session 2: Questions for Discussion: Group A: What role did entrepreneurs (social, political, economic, cultural) play in bringing about the innovation? Group B & C: What was the particular ‘social’ aspect of the innovations we have just heard described, and what sets it apart from other kinds of innovations? Learnings and Recommendations
17:10	Reporting from the Groups
17:45	Break
18:15	General Discussion and Presentation of the Final Recommendations: Learning from Multinational Case Studies Suggestions for Broader Impacts Recommendations for Future Research Feedback for Funding Agencies: remarks that could help to improve the process for future T-AP calls
18:45	End of Conference

¹The schedule is due to the availability of the 10 research teams which are located in North and South America and Europe.

Downloads

About the Conference

Conference Description with Programme (Long Version, PDF)

Abstracts

Abstracts of the Presentations (PDF)

Presentations

Presentation 1: ‘Collaboration for Social Innovation: Scaling for Impact (COLLABORATION)’
Presentation 1 (PDF)

Presentation 2: ‘Social Innovation Processes in and around Multinational Companies: The Role of Social Activists and their Transnational Networks (SOCIAL INNOVATION IN MULTINATIONALS)’
Presentation 2 (PDF)

Presentation 3: ‘User-Valued Innovations for Social Housing Upgrading through Trans-Atlantic Living Labs (uVITAL)’
Presentation 3 (PDF)

Presentation 4: ‘Social Pharmaceutical Innovation for Unmet Medical Needs (SPIN)’
Presentation 4 (PDF)

Presentation 5: ‘New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research: Social Innovation Management for BIOPlastics (SIMBIO)’
Presentation 5 (PDF)

Presentation 6: ‘Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery (DATAS)’
Presentation 6 (PDF)

Presentation 7: ‘Colonization of the Sacred Places of the Xavante Territory of Marãiwatsédé and São Marcos (XAVANTE)’
Presentation 7 (PDF)

Presentation 8: ‘Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation (WPC)’
Presentation 8 (PDF)

Presentation 9: ‘Socially Innovative Interventions to Foster and to Advance Young Children’s Inclusion and Agency in Society through Voice and Story (ADVOST)’
Presentation 9 (PDF)

Presentation 10: ‘Social Innovation through Participatory Art and Design with Youth at the Margins: Solutions for Engaging and Empowering Youth with Trans-Atlantic Mirroring (SEEYouth)’
Presentation 10 (PDF)