Events

The Young Foundation in partnership with MIK is holding a Summer School bringing together the community of people and organisations involved in practical social innovation to share skills, methods and insights.  It will take place from the 28 to 30 of July (Monday morning to wednesday lunch time) and will involve around 100 participants from a very wide range of countries including China, South Korea, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the USA, Canada and Denmark among others.   It will be located in San Sebastian, overlooking one of Europe’s finest beaches.

There will be a combination of keynote presentations and talks combined with themed workshops and working sessions organised in a way to maximise the exchange of ideas, experiences and thoughts.   The aim of the summer school is to help build the growing field of social innovation – sharing practical skills on issues ranging from finance and design, and from managing incubators to public policy.   Participants will also be able to learn from the many innovations underway in the Basque country, including within the Mondragon Group (of which MIK is a part) which is the world’s largest cooperative and social enterprise.  The Summer School is part of the Summer School Programme of the University of the Basque Country.  For further details and to register, please go to: http://www.sc.ehu.es/scrwwwsu/2008/iprogramme.html  (Please click in the calendar – 28th of July, and go to  week 6 – “semana 6”. It’s the  Summer School listed as 4.5. Click and you are at the registration area).

For more details about the program, speakers and attendees, click here