Hi Friends!
We have been absent from here for a few weeks but we have lots of new travel stories to update you with, including pictures!
Firstly – we started off our travels in Vietnam for the ENHANCE Project, in beautiful Hanoi to discuss applying Social Innovation to research and European Funding with our Vietnamese partners, as well as a visit to see the stunning Ha Long Bay. For details about ENHANCE, see the end of this post.
And the beautiful Ha Long Bay
Next we were on our way to Chile to stop in Santiago, and then Valparaiso for our LASIN Project meetings. We landed over the beautiful mountains in Santiago, and had our first lot of meetings at Universidad de Desarrollo, and then a workshop with partners Social Innovation Exchange (SIX), to prepare partners for the development of their individual Social Innovation Support Units. We then had a visit to two innovative projects in Santiago – first to Ideas Factory Santiago, and second to Laboratorio de Gobernio.
Ideas Factory Santiago and Laboratorio de Gobernio
We then spent a day in beautiful Valparaiso at Federico Santa María Technical University where we wrapped up our project meetings and visited the Ideas Factory in Valparaiso.
Finally, some of the group went Bogota, Colombia for the for SIX Summer School. The event showcased other organisations and their activities in Social Innovation, as well as talks about different aspects, opportunities and challenges in social innovation. For more information on this event and SIX’s activities see this link:
http://www.socialinnovationexchange.org/categories/read/six-summer-school-2016-in-colombia-social-innovation-in-divided-societies
For more information on ENHANCE Project, see here: www.project-enhance.eu
For more on LASIN Project, see here: lasin-eu.org
For more on SIX, see here: www.socialinnovationexchange.org
For more on Ideas Factory Chile, see here: www.ideafactory.cl
For more on Laboratorio de Gobernio, see here: lab.gob.cl
For more on Universidad de Desarollo, see here: www.udd.cl
For more on Federico Santa María Technical University, see here: www.usm.cl
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