Strengthening social innovation in Europe : journey to effective assessment and metrics.

The Social Innovation Europe initiative (SIE) represents a major effort to build and streamline the social innovation field in Europe. The project is run by a consortium of partners including Euclid Network, the Danish Technological Institute, and the Young Foundation, and led by the Social Innovation eXchange (SIX). Funded by the European Commission’s DG Enterprise and Industry, the SIE initiative will run over two years from January 2011 until December 2012 and will work to connect policy-makers, entrepreneurs, academics and third-sector workers with other innovators from across Europe. It is our goal to become a hub – a meeting place in the network of European networks – where innovative thinkers from all 27 Member States can come together to create a streamlined, vigorous social innovation field in Europe, to raise a shared voice, and to propel Europe to lead the practice of social innovation globally