Common Good First has just had confirmation of further funding to help grow the Scottish dimension of the project. This will fund resources to help begin to promote and roll out the platform to social innovation projects around Scotland. The stories collected will be represented on the Common Good Platform when it launches in October 2019.
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A flash mob highlighting Scotland’s solidarity towards migrants, refugees and asylum seekers brought happiness to one of the country’s busiest tourist attractions.
Around 25 people of all ages, from all over the world, performed a choreographed routine to Happy by Pharrell Williams in the main hall at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on Sunday afternoon.
The dancers all wore t-shirts promoting the research findings of a European funded project TransSOL which established one in three people in Scotland have shown solidarity towards migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
The performance, organised by the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), brought the curtain down on a weekend of fun activities at the museum as part of Glasgow Science Festival.
Researchers from GCU are leading a new £2.5 million Europe-wide project that will explore how to integrate migrants, refugees and asylum applicants into European Labour markets.
SIRIUS sees GCU coordinate the research of nine universities in seven countries. It is hoped the project will help shape international policy on supporting access to quality work opportunities and working conditions.
Professor Simone Baglioni, of the Yunus Centre, said: “The SIRIUS project believes it is in all our interests to integrate and that the fastest way to achieve that is through work.
“We have to help people into work and also help employers and society make the most of the wealth of skills refugees can bring.”
An article recently appeared in the Scotsman about the COOL Music Project. Please see link below:
Prof Simone Baglioni has been invited to deliver a keynote speech on Solidarity in Europe at an EU policy event taking place in Poland in early September. His speech will come after the opening address from the vice-president of the Committee of the Regions, which is the EU body representing sub-national authorities within EU policy making. This will then be followed by a policy debate involving representatives of local authorities and regional governments of various European countries. Further information is available at the following website: https://www.bsssc.com/copy-of-annual-conference-2018
A second keynote speech on social innovation will be delivered at a policy and practitioner focused event in Bordeaux, organized by EuroDir (European Association of the Heads of Health and Social Care Departments/offices). This is a discussion seminar for French head of health and social services about social innovations in the implementation of health care and social policies.
A team of FABMOVERs, led by Richard Pfeilstetter from the University of Seville, presented the project at the Second Iberoamerican Conference of Social Economy that was celebrated in Osuna, Andalusia, from the 4th to the 8th June 2018.
In front of a diverse audience made up of universities, public authorities and social entrepreneurs, Richard shared the FABMOVE slot with Antonia Avalos from Mujeres Supervivientes de Violencias de Género and Olga Biosca who was seconded in Seville from Glasgow Caledonian University. Itziar Gomez and Cristina Jurado from the University of Seville team were also there. FABMOVE members participated in a debate around the role of the social economy in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and shared their experiences with other successful social economy initiatives operating in the Iberoamerican region.
Dr Artur Steiner has been invited to give a keynote speech at the 16th Rural Entrepreneurship Conference in Plymouth this month. The title is ‘Rural social enterprise – evidence to date, and a research agenda’ and further details are available on the website below:
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/16th-rural-entrepreneurship-conference
Prof Rachel Baker presenting with Dr Ailsa Brown (Scottish Medicines Consortium) and Dr Koonal Shah (Office of Health Economics) at the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) conference in Vancouver 1st-5th June
Prof Simon Teasdale and Dr Micaela Mazzei recently attended a consortium meeting of the Common Good First project in South Africa earlier this month. To read the latest blog, please click on the link below:
The Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health are hosting or involved in various events as part of GCU Research Week, 14th – 19th June. For further details and to register for an event, please follow this link.
Call for papers now open for the 1st Southeast Asian Social Innovation Network Conference to be held at Impact Hub in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 8th and 9th October 2018 – more info online at – http://www.seasin-eu.org/call-for-abstracts/ …