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We are excited to share with you The SOCRATIC Methodology Handbook called: Keys for a Civil Society – led model towards the Sustainable Development Goals. This handbook is a quick guide to the Social Innovation Process created by the consortium. SOCRATIC Methodology Handbook provides a set of practical guidelines for each step of the SOCRATIC Methodology.Read more

SOCRATIC project will celebrate a final event next February, 22nd at SPA LUSH Madrid to present the final outputs generated by the Project. During the event we will present Guide for Social innovation created by SOCRATIC project: a collaborative Model for Organizations and Citizens to overcome SDGs. This guide will be available in this website.Read more

During the Workshop “Connected Technologies for Social Good” all participants will contribute to address these questions: How can digital technologies help addressing social challenges? Can new technologies help democratizing wealth creation? The main goal is to showcase the achievements and impact of the innovative initiatives across Europe towards a digital society! SOCRATIC project Joins the CAPSSIRead more

The conference, Jointly organised by the European Commission, the Portuguese Government and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, aims to boost social innovation in Europe because social innovation is a good, cost-effective way to advance inclusive and wealth-creating public policies, by developing a new narrative and giving this new narrative the means to take root, grow, blossomRead more

The 4th International Conference on Internet Science will be held 22-24 November, 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece. this event aims at progressing and investigating on topics of high relevance with Internet’s impact on society, governance, and innovation. It focuses on the contribution and role of Internet science on the current and future multidisciplinary understanding of societies transformations,Read more

CiberPlus, the pilot program of Socratic in Spain, has had a very active week with three localities visited and the collaboration of the Universities of the Balearic Islands, Basque Country and Oviedo .Last Tuesday, October 17 from 10: 00-14: 00 hours, in the computer room of the Information Technology Center, with the students of theRead more

The first of the pilots experiences proposed in Spain took place the 9th of October at La Laguna University in Tenerife.  A group of students took part during a 4 hours workshop to go through the CIBERPLUS platform and generate challenges to address social problems. In this case the group worked on the idea ofRead more

We are thrilled to introduce CIBERPLUS, an ecosystem of citizen participation to propose challenges that solve the Sustainable Development Objectives and solve them in a collaborative way with solutions of social impact. CIBERPLUS will be the the pilot experiences lead by Cibervoluntarios Foundation in Spain as a part of the Horizon2020 project SOCRATIC. CIBERPLUS proposeRead more

We congratulate with the participants of the 1st Socratic Social Innovation Contest in Trondheim (Norway). Over two weeks they intensively developed concepts to improve the lives of people affected by the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), using the Socratic platform. The winning idea “CalmMe” received 1000EUR in funds to further develop their idea into a aRead more

The Ecosystem of Social Innovation in Europe at #EmpoderaLIVE 2017. We want to thank OpenCare Nesta Matt Stokes Social Innovation Community Massimo Menichinelli Fab Lab BarcelonaMAKE-IT Commonfare Capssi EU Socratic CHEST Project – Collective Enhanced Environment for Social Tasks and #NGI4EU for sharing their amazing projects. It was great having you on stage. #MakingBayHacking If you missed it you can watch the whole session here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFoLPhZhAOA  Pictures ofRead more