BoostInno

Boosting social innovation

Edited on 18/06/2025

15/09/2015 03/05/2018

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  • Action Planning Network
  • Urban planning
  • Participative governance
  • Social cohesion
  • Entrepreneurship and SMEs
  • Participation

The work developed by the cities of this Action Planning network has proven that social innovation is not just a trend, but it could also be qualified as a fundamental change in the management of cities, in the management of impact and in the relations cities uphold and develop with their inhabitants. Some would describe this change as an equivalent of the industrial or the IT revolution: up until now, one of the basic assumptions of urban policy was that citizens were to accept what is decided, planned and built. Recent years have shown that it is often the citizens who make the city, in a collaborative perspective.

Summary

Partners

Lead Partner : Gdańsk - Poland
  • Wroclaw - Poland
  • Baia Mare - Romania
  • Milan - Italy
  • Turin - Italy
  • Barcelona - Spain
  • Braga - Portugal
  • Paris - France
  • Strasbourg - France
  • Länsstyrelsen Skane - Sweden

Timeline

Kick-off meeting in July (Wroclaw). Transnational meeting in November (Barcelona).

Transnational meetings in March (Baia Mare) and November (Paris).

Transnational meeting in January (Milan). Final event in April (Gdansk).

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