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Social Lab Workshop at Roskilde
We worked with three social supplier cases and created ideas for products and services. Add your ideas here
11 months ago
1 comment →Creative vibes at the Partnership Conference 2012
Thanks for playing and adding to the creative vibe in Social Lab at the Partnership Conference. Hope to see you again! And thank you Hazel for producing this awesome clip.
11 months ago
Be the first to add a comment →Lab 2700 Kick-off Conference
We couldn't have thought of a better place to host a Lab Run, than in a former physics classroom. The Lab Run marked the kick-off for Lab 2700, which is a brand new initiative by Copenhagen Business Center.
Throughout the rest of 2012 Social Lab will work with the Business Center, to support the growth of entrepreneurial culture in Tingbjerg and Husum.
Together we will educate local social innovators, and host social lab workshops, to unleash fresh ideas for social projects and businesses. The Business Center will provide mentorship and incubation resources. The Social Lab team will bring their experience within open collaboration, and stimulating social innovation.
Look out for blue containers and white lab coats - we can't wait to get started!
12 months ago
1 comment →1+1=3
We have a bunch of new inspirations, on how businesses and NGOs have teamed up, to solve some of the most important social and environmental problems of the world. They're all tied to our innovation challenge on partnerships. Take a look at how Nokia and Greenpeace are greening the electronics sector.
12 months ago
Be the first to add a comment →We depend on each other
We are moving our idea lab indoors for the NGO+Business Partnership Conference at Copenhagen Business School. As part of the conference, we are hosting an open innovation challenge, focusing on encouraging more strategic partnerships between businesses and NGOs. The challenge is open to everyone - help us get the conversations started here!
12 months ago
Be the first to add a comment →Open Air Neighborhood project ready for take off
The idea of a neighborhood that is build by and for it's citizens, was created during Social Lab at Roskilde last summer.
Theis and Louise who were behind the idea have worked hard to attract funding and partners. Over the summer they will be live with 4 different projects at Roskilde Festival and in the city of Copenhagen.
The projects are aimed at testing and developing a brand new approach to democratic city development. One in which citizens are engaged in building their own city spaces.
Check out their new website openairneighborhood.dk
About 1 year ago
2 comments →Ideas for the Social Lab web platform
What would make collaborating online on social innovations fun and effective? What do you think organizations need?
http://thesociallab.dk/challenges/8/ideas
Over 1 year ago
Be the first to add a comment →You may hold the key ...
You may possess the skills or experience, our idea creators are looking for. They are in the middle of clarifying crucial aspects of how they can turn their ideas into action. They need help with everything from programming, bike design, city development to legal issues and much more. Take a look at the three projects and see if you might be able to contribute:
Universal Donation App
Bike Bizz for Hobos
Open Air Neighborhood
You can contact us at contact@thesociallab.dk
Over 1 year ago
Be the first to add a comment →The Edge Camp
This week-end we invited our idea creators to the Edge Camp. The goal was to further develop each idea and create a game plan for how each idea can be tested in the real world. The weather was excellent and so was the location. So when the experts we had invited to help our idea creators came, we were able to work at the harbor front in Christianshavn. Among the experts persons were:
Mikael Ahlström founder and ceo at digital agency Britny
Michael Espensen daily manger at NGO Giv Din Hånd
Bent Haugland founder at NGO Better Now
Tina Saaby, City Architect at Municipaliy of Copenhagen
Louise Secher from Area Renewal Vesterbro
Follow the progress of each idea under Projects
Over 1 year ago
1 comment →Poverty Fighters
Social Lab would like to thank the participants in the panel that helped us identify the ideas with the greatest potential to reduce inequality and help those living on the edge:
Roger Spear is Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Centre for Complexity and Change at the Open University. He is the chair of the Co-operatives Research Unit, founding member and vice-president of EMES.
Kam-tong Chan, Ph.D., is currently Associate Professor/ Principal Lecturer of the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also the Convener of the Centre for Third Sector Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Marília Veronese is a social psychologist, professor and researcher at the University of Vale of Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), Brazil, where she is member of a research team on solidarity based economy, which belongs to the Social Sciences Postgraduate Programme.
Gladius Kulothungan has 25 years of senior management and training/consultancy/research experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors with a diverse range of expertise in the areas of social action & community development, media productions, project management and social enterprise. Currently he heads the B.A. Social Enterprise programme in CIS.
Almost 2 years ago
Be the first to add a comment →Featured Challenge
How can more social businesses become suppliers to Roskilde Festival?
How might we help social entrepreneurs scale their business, and become suppliers to The Roskilde Festival?
Roskilde Festival is one of the largest music festivals in Europe. The Festival wishes to support social businesses, by helping them to develop products and services, that match the Festival's value chain. The goal is to ensure a higher number of social businesses, among the festival suppliers. We have partnered with the Festival to solve this challenge.
Once again we are asking for your fresh thinking and creative ideas.
We have also partnered with a number of existing social businesses, because we want to use them as concrete cases. We invite you to help us create ideas...