Social (Business) Innovations
Social Business Cities:
A Social Business City is a municipal ecosystem aiming at fostering social businesses locally. A network of local institutions and enterprises shall support social business entrepreneurs. Social Business Cities like Pistoia, Barcelona and Taoyuan have gone through a social business city programm (3 years), which implements and evaluates such a city network. It can be coordinated by the Yunus Social Business Centre Florence:
https://sbflorence.org/en/pistoia-social-business-city
Social Enterprise City Plymouth:
In the UK the government organisation Social Enterprise UK certifies "Social Enterprise Places" like Plymouth calling them Social Enterprise Cities:
https://plymsocent.org.uk
Amsterdam Impact:
Amsterdam has build up a thriving social business ecosystem in the last years:
https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/business/amsterdam-impact
Lessons learnt are displayed here:
https://sewfonline.com/creating-a-climate-where-social-enterprises-could-thrive-amsterdam-impact/
Social Economy Berlin:
Berlin has built up a social business ecosystem coordinated by send e.v., an umbrella association for social entrepreneurship in Germany. It offers consultancy, networking events and other support in terms of finding funding opportunities:
https://socialeconomy.berlin
Social Entrepreneurship City Hamburg:
German city Hamburg has launched its network in February 2014 offering consultancy, funding, networking and knowledge sharing:
https://socialentrepreneurship.hamburg
Climate solutions:
C40 is a city network, sharing climate solutions:
https://www.c40.org
Sustainable solutions platform:
Tech4good is a platform provided by the EU for sustainable city solutions (renewable energy, mobility,...)
https://marketplace.intelligentcitieschallenge.eu/en?
Environment:
Planting tiny forests according to a Japanese method (dense and natural planting) is a way to enhance the biodiversity in city places:
https://www.urbanforest.be/en/miyawaki-method-3/
City Planning:
Architect Jan Gehl has invented an innovative method to measure the moves of a city's citizens. His concept of a humane based city planning enhances public life (less loneliness, more life quality,...):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlrXeh1z1LU (look at minute 16)
Homelessness:
see "poverty" on the left
Heat management:
see "health" on the left
A Social Business City is a municipal ecosystem aiming at fostering social businesses locally. A network of local institutions and enterprises shall support social business entrepreneurs. Social Business Cities like Pistoia, Barcelona and Taoyuan have gone through a social business city programm (3 years), which implements and evaluates such a city network. It can be coordinated by the Yunus Social Business Centre Florence:
https://sbflorence.org/en/pistoia-social-business-city
Social Enterprise City Plymouth:
In the UK the government organisation Social Enterprise UK certifies "Social Enterprise Places" like Plymouth calling them Social Enterprise Cities:
https://plymsocent.org.uk
Amsterdam Impact:
Amsterdam has build up a thriving social business ecosystem in the last years:
https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/business/amsterdam-impact
Lessons learnt are displayed here:
https://sewfonline.com/creating-a-climate-where-social-enterprises-could-thrive-amsterdam-impact/
Social Economy Berlin:
Berlin has built up a social business ecosystem coordinated by send e.v., an umbrella association for social entrepreneurship in Germany. It offers consultancy, networking events and other support in terms of finding funding opportunities:
https://socialeconomy.berlin
Social Entrepreneurship City Hamburg:
German city Hamburg has launched its network in February 2014 offering consultancy, funding, networking and knowledge sharing:
https://socialentrepreneurship.hamburg
Climate solutions:
C40 is a city network, sharing climate solutions:
https://www.c40.org
Sustainable solutions platform:
Tech4good is a platform provided by the EU for sustainable city solutions (renewable energy, mobility,...)
https://marketplace.intelligentcitieschallenge.eu/en?
Environment:
Planting tiny forests according to a Japanese method (dense and natural planting) is a way to enhance the biodiversity in city places:
https://www.urbanforest.be/en/miyawaki-method-3/
City Planning:
Architect Jan Gehl has invented an innovative method to measure the moves of a city's citizens. His concept of a humane based city planning enhances public life (less loneliness, more life quality,...):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlrXeh1z1LU (look at minute 16)
Homelessness:
see "poverty" on the left
Heat management:
see "health" on the left
