Social Innovations for Adaptive Transitions: Learning from Climate Change Mitigation Projects in the Southern Coast of India K.T.Thomson, Adjunct Professor Cochin University of Science and Technology (Panel Proposal to be presented at Eco Summit 2020:, 21 - 25 June 2020, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia) Cooperation solicited thomsonkt@rediffmail.com

The European Movement International and the City of The Hague host the commemoration of the famous Congress of the Hague every decade. This two-day festival is open, ‘future-oriented’ and engaging a wide range of civic networks. The festival is divided in 5 ‘streams’ called Citizens Debate, Citizens Challenge, Citizens Imagine, Citizens Build, Citizens Connect.

The Social Innovation Community organizes a two-day workshop for critical thinkers and doers to explore the power dimensions of social innovation work. How do we deal with power in our social innovation work? Who has power and how do we empower ourselves and each other to (re)claim power? What are the power dynamics and unintended consequences in the fields we are working in?

With the Great Transition in mind, people come together and create enlightening dialectics on core questions about strategy and vision from the current neoliberal growth paradigm to the next system.

Book presentation and panel discussion on the (im)possibilities of social innovation at the University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht. The presented book is called Sociale innovatie in de praktijk, edited by Karre, Dagevos & Walraven.

This 1,5 day symposium will take place in Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solbosch campus), December 6-7, 2017. The symposium is meant to organize a debate between leading scholars that have explored these ‘TSI paradoxes’ from various angles (such as innovation studies, STS, political philosophy, sociology, political science, Social Economy, transitions studies).

Abundance Hull has been organised by Hull & East Riding Mutual Aid Network and Eden Project Communities, two organisations working to connect communities and inspire action. The event focused on building networks of networks and making the case for extended networks of reciprocity, asset sharing/developing, partnering, trust-building and empowering of citizens and communities using own assets.

The conference is organized by the European Commission, the Portuguese government and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It 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, blossom and bear fruit.