“Social innovation is not a panacea but if encouraged and valued it can bring immediate solutions to the pressing social issues citizens are confronted with. In the long term, I see social innovation as part of a new culture of empowerment that we are trying to promote”.
Research has two principal faces: the social and the technological one. But it remains always a methodology used to increase human knowledge. Social and technological research is a key factor in pushing our society towards a new ethical social model. It is able to create innovation, that has a strong impact on our everyday lives,
Carmela Asero: Strategic Policy Analysis and Advice at the Joint Research Centre (DG JRC), the European Commission’s in-house science service “New media have a potential to differentiate from main stream, being horizontal, allowing an easy access for people by Internet. They can reach more people, whether in the production or the use of information. They touch
Paola Bucciarelli – research coordinator for DG Connect European Commission “Digitalization is changing all areas of our lives and all processes that have not been touched by it yet. The process is unstoppable.Technologies support values of our society and of the EU. Values of peace, of security, of a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.What is