International Summer School “SOCIAL INNOVATION”

Nowadays, we are living in a rapidly changing world that faces unprecedented challenges and success stories, but along with all this positive burst that new generation evokes problems inevitably occur. Mankind now is osculating challenges in terms of inequality and diversity, economic viability and sustainability and the resilience of infrastructures and services. For solving them we need to come together – we need to discuss, brainstorm, to picture the problem, because only then solution can be created. Students will participate in lectures and practical works on topics related to cultural changes, urban social ecosystems, sustainable entrepreneurship and social business, so the main aim of participant effort will be to focus attention on the ideas and solutions that create social value as well as the processes through which they are generated. Participants of Social Innovation Summer School will work on three main topics:

• Social entrepreneurship and Business Ethics. Where students together with lecturers will try to get an answer to the modern-day question - how to solve market decentralization problems;
• Social innovations for different groups of society. Participants will be asked to define nowadays` problems and come up with solutions;
• Innovation process itself. All together we will solve the “mystery” – what is really “social innovation”!

The Social Innovation Summer School will provide students with unique experience through: interactive lectures which will be led by local and international experts, workshops, presentations of good practices and field trips. During all summer school practices students will be able to ask questions, discuss and compare the newly acquired knowledge to the situation in their home countries.