SINet Blog
People from around Europe gathered to present you information and resources about social innovations, European solidarity, community fundraising, digital transformation of the nonprofit sector, and other tools for sustainable community development.
Virtual Reality as a Tool for Social Innovation
The last few years have been particularly marked by important technological innovations in almost every field. In particular, due to the long ongoing pandemic that has greatly limited almost all social interactions, the communications sector had to rapidly adapt in...
Young People and Social Innovation in Europe
Social innovation is the process of developing creative ideas that will eventually ‘’grow’’ into practical solutions, which will improve the overall wellbeing of the community. The primary goal of implementing or designing a new social innovation is to solve different...
Youth Building Skills and Gaining Opportunities Through Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
Nearly 90% of young people today live in low and middle-income countries. Around 200 million adolescent people are not in education programs and 13% of young people globally are unemployed. This presents numerous challenges and hinders young people from acquiring...
The Need to Consider Social Equality to Grant Environmental Quality
Most of the efforts when it comes to study sustainable development is to focus on its environmental dimension, due to the environmental crises that development has generated. However, an important aspect of sustainable development that is often overlooked are the...
Social Innovation and Parenting: How Needs and Responses from Technology are Changing
Parenting is deeply affected by current economic and social change. Educating is a complicated topic, parents are dealing with the responsibility of education and constant attention to the world that welcomes their children among the challenges of progress and its...
How Nonprofits Can Use E-commerce to Their Advantage
Operating a sustainable and well-funded nonprofit is tough businesss to move away from relying solely on donations, nonprofits are behaving more and more like their for profit counterparts, experimenting with developing different income streams and operating models....
Sustainability: its Meaning and its Impact
Sustainability regards meeting our needs without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their owns. While always considered as associated with the environment, sustainability can be explored in other contexts, like the economic development and...
The Role of Digital Transformation Toward a More Inclusive Education of Students With Special Needs
When talking about digital transformation in education, we refer to the use of ICT(information and communication technology) as a powerful tool in inclusive education. These tools have been proved to be of a great impact, more specifically, on students with special...
The Circular Economy: When Innovation Becomes a Need
Thinking about the future and making long-term plans, today, means above all reflecting on sustainability, on how to develop the minimum environmental impact and how to preserve the environment in which we live, by exploiting its resources in an intelligent way. In...
Community Fundraising and its Impact in the Third Sector
Fundraising is the process of collecting money or other resources donations carried out by non-profit making organisations — NGOs, foundations, associations, collectives, etc. — in order to be able to implement their projects. During the time this tool has gained...
Is Digtalization Promoting Social Changes?
It is a fact that our society has undertaken a digital turn in almost every sphere, but is that digitalization promoting social changes? What are examples of positive social changes that are happening due to the digital reshaping of our society, economy and...
Successful Stakeholders Mapping. How to classify potential donors in nonprofit organizations
Stakeholder" refers to anyone, individual, or group that has an interest in your nonprofit. It includes people directly involved, such as board members, people you serve, donors, or foundations that give you grants. Many other individuals or groups can be...
Social Innovation to Tackle Socio-economic Difficulties for Young People
NEETs and COVID-19 effects on Youths in the EU. In a rapidly changing society due to new social and health emergencies, economic and cultural issues emerge, strongly reflecting on the young people world. In fact, the phenomenon of youth unemployment is now booming on...
The Importance of Promoting a Female Social Entrepreneurship
The core basis of social entrepreneurship is to acknowledge and recognize a certain social problem in the society and act upon it in order to acomplish a positive social change. For example, the gender gap in social enterprises is commonly known to be a social issue...
The EU-LAC MUSEUMS Project and Sustainable Community Development
When talking about sustainable communities and development we must keep in mind that the technology is a great and fundamental tool to help in the path of progress, but it is not the only one. Unexpectedly, or perhaps not, coming back to our roots and our native...