ESICA aims to develop research and application projects to strengthen and spread knowledge on social embedding and to promote the exchange of national and international experiences by establishing networks for sustainable innovations. ✔️Aim:
Develop research and application projects to strengthen and spread knowledge on the social embedding and to promote the exchange of national and internationa
l experiences by establishing networks for socially accepted and sustainable innovations that meet global challenges.
✔️Objectives:
●Conduct research and application projects on the social embedding and impact of all types of innovations.
●Contribute to the design and distribution of socially accepted and sustainable innovations to meet global challenges.
●Deploy innovative research, education, and advisory services.
●Provide non-formal learning about social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and policy formation.
●Integrate and increase the local community participation in educational and social processes.
●Generate new knowledge, configure existing knowledge, evaluate measures, develop concepts, and forward their implementation.
●Engage in the development of theories, methodologies, instruments, and measures as well as in the dissemination of a systemically conceptualized broad innovation approach, contributing also to the implementation of the sustainable development goals.
●Apply a set of methodological competencies and skills in a broad range of thematic areas with expertise in Europe. Coordinate and deliver European initiatives in education and innovation policies.
●Promote participation in the labour market for the active social inclusion of all.
●Intensify research to co-construct knowledge that will generate innovation.
●Encourage and facilitate people’s active participation in the various stages of co-constructing knowledge, including by identifying problems and developing solutions.
●Ensure knowledge transfer to facilitate the implementation of innovations or practical solutions to the targeted problems.
●Enhance training for highly qualified researchers, students, and staff in ways to approach and encourage social innovation.
●Consolidate and promote the creation of national and international partnerships.
●Encourage creativity and innovative development of people in the local community.
●Encourage participation in civil society activities.
●Organize local, national, and international activities about non-formal education and social innovation with similar public and private organizations.
●Build networks and cooperate with similarly targeted European-wide organizations in educational and social projects.
●Organize conferences, seminars, workshops, and training courses for people in local communities.
