An opportunity to showcase projects and develop new partnerships
The event will be face-to-face and will offer you the chance to highlight your work and meet other organisations carrying out similar projects, to forge new partnerships and respond to potential opportunities to help drive change in our societies.
Brokering for Change is hosted by the EU funded project, SEVERE (Social Enterprise through Virtual Environments and Remote Entrepreneurship). The project was conceived as a response to the Covid pandemic and revolves around a unique programme to build a culture of social entrepreneurship, one that is virtual, transnational and exposes students first-hand to the challenges of effecting meaningful change.
The event will include a Partnership Market Place to showcase existing initiatives and world cafés where specific challenges and potential solutions will be discussed. Above all, the event will offer its participants a forum to devise new projects in response to forthcoming calls for action in Europe and beyond, to tackle the oncoming challenges that face us and help drive change in our societies.
Programme
An opportunity to showcase projects and develop new partnerships for social innovation
9.00 - 9.30 Welcome, Anastasia Cozarenco and Mark Majewsky Anderson
9.30 - 10.00 SEVERE presentation Showcasing the project’s unique approach to virtual social entrepreneurship incubation. Members of the SEVERE Consortium and students showcase its Intellectual Outputs
10.00 - 11.30 Revolving cafés 1 (Chairs: Teresa Franqueira, Teresa Monllau, Anastasia Cozarenco, Alexandra Gaidos)
Social entrepreneurship support A series of workshops in which leading social innovators debate how we should approach major challenges:
• CREATIVITY (Cecília Carvalho, Universidade do Minho; PauloSouza, Universidade Federal da Bahia; Farba Ndour, Crealead)
• ENTERPRISE (Benedicte Faivre Tavignot HEC Business School; Miguel Garcia Social Business City Barcelona; Romain Paul, Yuyo)
• INCUBATION (Helen Denny, The Melting Pot; Marie Gomez Breysse WHY3C; Cyril Salort, INCUB-online; Javi Finez, BiB S. Coop.)
11.30 - 12.30 What makes European Projects successful? (Chair: Natalia Popielska) A Panel Debate featuring: Laura Pardo García, Connexx-EU; David Alpera, Project evaluator; James Sharples, Scotland Europa
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.30 Shaping Policy (Chair: Mark Majewsky Anderson) Panel discussion debating how social innovation can be effective on a large scale. Minna Harjo, Estonian Government; Philippe Guichandut, Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation; Gustavo Freitas Unidade de Investimento Social, SMCL.
14.30 - 16.00 Revolving cafés 2 (Chairs: Rose Cawood, Silvia Sordi, Margarida Fardilha, Samuel Nyarko)
The Challenges of Place A series of workshops in which leading social innovators debate how we should approach major challenges.
• TACKLING GLOCAL PROBLEMS (Lucia Merlino, Consorzio Comunità Brianza; Cristian Bevacqua, MedUp/Oxfam; Serena Baldini Vento di Terra ONG)
• NEW CONCEPTS (Josyane Franc, Cité du design; Andrea Balletbò, Tandem Social; Iñigo Urkidi, BiB S. Coop)
• NO ONE LEFT BEHIND (Zakia Moulaoui, Invisible Cities; Juan Lemus Fundacio Arrels; Lila Ruiz De Somocurcio Deliv'rue)
16.00 - 17.00 Speed dating session Responding to various potential EU calls, an opportunity to develop new partnerships for change.
17.00 - 19.30 Wrap up and cocktail Final comments and future plans
Date and time:
Thu, April 7, 20228:45 AM – 7:30 PM CEST
Location:
Pôle REALIS
710 Rue Favre de Saint-Castor
34080 Montpellier
France