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14.01.2019
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
So said the Great One, Wayne Gretzky in a quote I first heard spoken by another great Canadian, social entrepreneur Al Etmanski. The phrase largely speaks for itself but the implication is that you won’t achieve anything if you don’t try. I get it. But...
15.10.2018
On October 4th, our team welcomed a delegation from South Korea’s Ministry of Interior composed by Ha Inho, Lee Hyosun and Lee Seong-eun, members of the country’s first social innovation agency.
The meeting was an opportunity to get to know each other’s work and exchange ideas about how to...
3.09.2018
UpSocial is one of the partners of the EuroPACE project, recipient of the EU Horizon 2020 grant, that is promoting a new financing mechaninsm to improve the access of general population to energy efficiency retrofits.
The model: on-tax financing
EuroPACE is the European adaptation of the American...
11.07.2018
We are celebrating our eighth anniversary and on each anniversary we try to share what we have learned by being constantly exposed to innovations from all over the world and in very diverse fields.
It is very stimulating to discover what works and what is generating a great impact, and also to...
19.03.2018
How can post-secondary institutions transform their internal practices and structures to more actively contribute to positive social change?
With one of the most accessible post-secondary sectors in the world, it comes as no surprise that various Canadian institutions excel at addressing social...
16.10.2017
Athens, Barcelona, Lisbon, Rotterdam and Stockholm join efforts to find innovative responses to common social challenges by promoting the scale of existing solutions.
Through a worldwide research, the Accelerating Change for Social Inclusion project has short-listed 60 innovations from 250+...
1.06.2017
PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) is an innovative funding mechanism of far-reaching energy efficiency improvements in all different types of buildings. The long-term return on investment through charging property tax allows to overcome obstacles in its exponential implementation and on a large...
26.01.2017
One of DinàmiG’s, Agency of Innovation and Development of La Garrotxa, strategic lines aims to showcase the innovative experiences of the region that fall into the social sphere and then strengthen them in order to provide better solutions to the main challenges facing the region and its citizens....
10.10.2016
Accelerating Change for Social Inclusion is an initiative seeking to implement more effective and more efficient solutions to solve social challenges.
The five participant cities -Athens, Barcelona, Lisbon, Rotterdam and Stockholm- have agreed three social problems to address: Children at Risk of...
9.03.2016
JUMP Math is a school programme for the teaching and learning of mathematics developed in Canada, which has been used for over 10 years with spectacular results.
After two years piloting the implementation of JUMP Math in more than 90 public schools, with support from organisations such as the...