(Non) conference of socially innovative cities
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Boosting Social Innovation - an URBACT project has been summarized in Gdansk.
In Paris - the Olympic Citizens' Budget, in Milan - the fourth industrial revolution, in Wroclaw - the shaping of commercial streets in the city together with residents.
The goal of all these initiatives is the same: to stimulate social innovation. 10 cities in Europe are summarized by the BoostINNO project, whose Gdansk is the leader.
The BoostINNO project is about to end, in which, for 2.5 years, representatives of ten European cities worked on developing the subject of social innovation. Social innovation is a philosophy of changing the way a city is managed, in which the role of power is no longer planning and managing the implementation of plans but co-designing the future and introducing innovative changes with the participation of residents.
It is them who, as people who know their nearest surroundings, have to change the city for the better - from the inside. The city's authorities and administration are to help them, encourage them and support them. In short, the local government is to be a broker of social innovation. The event summarizing the project is not accidental in Gdansk (on April 11 - 13), because it is the city, and precisely the Department of Social Development of the Gdansk municipality is the leader of BoostINNO.
