Innovation Union Scoreboard - Industrial innovation - Enterprise and Industry. The EU and all EU Member States have become more innovative in recent years.
Cordes Innovation Awards. The Ashoka U-Cordes Innovation Awards recognize high impact and highly replicable education innovations.
Innovations may include effective approaches to curricular development, co-curricular activities, and community and culture building to enhance social entrepreneurship in higher education. Cordes Innovation Awards. Mgf-sai-guidelines. Award for ESI (CASE) As part of its ongoing efforts to promote the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact, CASE launched a new award in 2008 to recognize outstanding individuals, organizations, or companies whose innovations blend methods from the worlds of business and philanthropy to create sustainable social value that has the potential for large-scale impact.
CASE awarded the inaugural recipient of the CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation (ESI) in the spring of 2009 and accepts nominations from the public annual each spring. CASE is thrilled to announce that our 2013 ESI Award Winner is: Andrea and Barry Coleman, co-founders of Riders for Health! Read more Read about our past ESI Award Recipients: Award Goals & Criteria. Our Model. The Social Innovation Fund (SIF) is a key White House initiative and program of the Corporation for National and Community Service that awards grants to identify, validate, and grow promising approaches to challenges facing local communities.
SIF works with and through existing grantmaking institutions, or “grantmakers,” to direct resources to innovative community-based nonprofit organizations, or “subgrantees” focused on youth development, economic opportunity, and healthy futures. The operating model of the Social Innovation Fund has been explicitly designed to advance these objectives and is distinguished by the following six key elements: Innovation The Social Innovation Fund is committed to investing in innovative solutions that displace stale, ineffective programs.
For SIF, “social innovation” means “new ways to solve old problems that are faster, cost-effective, data-driven and lead to better results for the public good.” Evidence Scale Grantmakers Match. Social Enterprise Awards. Each category is targeted at social enterprises in different stages of their business cycle.
Please see eligibility for each award below: Australian Social Enterprise of the Year – Small – employing less than 25 people effective full time (EFT) Excellent vision and strategic directionStrong leadership, management and governance of the organisationA demonstrable impact that is well articulated and measuredA sustainable and proven business modelGood awareness of the organisation and its missionContribution to the development of the sector beyond their own organisationApplicants will be required to provide three years of audited financial accounts for the Social Enterprise if they are shortlisted Australian Social Enterprise of the Year – Large – employing 25 or more people effective full time (EFT) One to Watch Award - A social enterprise that has been operating less than 3 years that articulate their future vision and how they are going to achieve it showing growth in their model. Social Enterprise Resources.
Part 1: Introducing Social Enterprise Performance. REMEMBERING_JOHN_DURAND_1934-2008. Innovation_population_wv. Geoff Mulgan. Geoff Mulgan on 24 May 2011 Geoff Mulgan CBE (born 1961) is Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA)[1] and Visiting Professor at University College London, the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne.
Previously he was: Mulgan obtained a First Class degree from Balliol College, Oxford[3] and a Ph.D. in telecommunications from the University of Westminster. Growing-Social-Ventures-2011. Applied Innovation - Our Approach. The Applied Innovation team develops programmes to increase the impact of social innovation on a large scale.
Our clients range from government departments to local authorities, funding bodies and charities. We draw on a range of approaches, tools and the skills and experience of a multi-disciplinary team of staff and associates. We bring in partners with particular sector expertise where this adds to our offer. Measuring-Social-Impact.pdf. Measuring outcomes. The Centre for Social Impact believes identifying, evaluating and communicating best practice in the delivery of social outcomes is essential to create meaningful and sustained change.
We measure what matters. Current context for outcomes measurement In a resource constrained social system, it is vital that we ensure our capital and capabilities are directed to the right places and purpose – and measurement is key to this understanding. Organisations are measuring and reporting what they do and that is to be applauded. Much of what is measured is reporting activity as opposed to outcomes. A way forward. How To Measure Social Impact: New Research And Insights. Global Witness wins TED prize; Skoll awards. Opportunities For Africans. What is Social Entrepreneurship / Examples Of A Social Entrepreneur. Social entrepreneurs pave avenues of opportunity for those who would, otherwise, be locked into lives without hope.
Learn more about social entrepreneurship and the Skoll World Forum, and hear why their innovations are the most promising solutions to global problems. This video features past Skoll World Forum luminaries such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus (Grameen Bank), Jaqueline Novogratz (Acumen Fund), Bill Drayton (Ashoka), Sally Osberg (Skoll Foundation) and many more. Social entrepreneurs are society’s change agents, creators of innovations that disrupt the status quo and transform our world. By identifying the people and programs already bringing positive change, we empower them to extend their reach, deepen their impact and fundamentally improve society. Such rare individuals, throughout history, have introduced solutions to seemingly intractable social problems.
Dump the Prizes. I was sitting at my desk the other day, writing a recommendation letter for some prize or another, and I found myself thinking, “Why the hell am I doing this?”
It often takes me a couple of hours to write something I feel good about—and for what? The vast majority of contestants don’t win anything, and even when they do, it’s often shamefully small amounts of money and/or the dubious assumption that the attendant publicity will lead to bigger things. After years of watching and participating in this stuff, I’ve concluded that it does more harm than good—and by “this stuff” I mean the whole contest/challenge/prize/award industry. Yes, this lumps together way too many disparate things; yes, there are exceptions to everything I say here; and yes, it deserves a more nuanced discussion.
That’s all true, but on the whole, I think we could dump it all and not miss a thing. 1. Skoll Awards Overview. Federally Funded Innovation Inducement Prizes - Deborah D. Stine. Awards. Victoria Prize criteria. Nominations should fully address requirements 1 - 8 in the nomination form. The selection panel will only consider information provided in the application and supporting documentation. Nominations must be lodged by 2.00pm (AEDT) on Thursday, 5 June 2014. Upload your completed nomination (from 1 May 2014)Upload your completed referee report (from 1 May 2014) Candidates for the Victoria Prize must be nominated by an individual, a group of individuals or a professional association. Self-nominations will be excluded. The field of endeavour may be in: research (pure or applied); ordevelopment (for example, implementation of research outcomes in an industrial setting).
Nominees should be active in research. Criteria for Selection : Innovation Prize for Africa. 14 Questions and Answers about the Nobel Peace Prize. Geir Lundestad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, answers frequently asked questions about the Nobel Peace Prize and the 2009 Peace Prize to Barack Obama. Open University student reviews. Open Learning Australia - Open Universities Australia. Established in 1993 as Open Learning Australia, OUA has remained at the forefront of higher education throughout its history, identifying, developing and delivering new and innovative learning opportunities to students from all walks of life. Company History Open Universities Australia is no stranger to the idea of leveraging technology to deliver education and training in unusual ways. In fact, OUA was using a web-style educational model before the advent of the web.
Open Universities Australia was originally established in 1993 as Open Learning Australia to provide distance education using printed courseware and non commercial television. OUA and its university providers continue to enjoy the benefits that come from this pioneering open learning legacy. Nomination and Selection of Peace Prize Laureates. Nominations for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize The Norwegian Nobel Committee has received 278 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014. 47 of these are organizations. 278 is the highest number of candidates ever. The Will. On November 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his third and last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris.
Nomination Database - Peace. Nomination and Selection of Peace Prize Laureates. Teaching and learning at the OU. Facts and figures. The OU Explained. The OU Outside the UK. The Open University offers programmes in countries around the world, both taught directly from the OU, and delivered through local partners. Formal Governance Structure. The Open University was established by charter on 23 April 1969. History of the OU. "What other nation in the world could have given us William Shakespeare, pork pies, Christopher Wren, Windsor Great Park, The Open University, Gardeners' Question Time and the chocolate digestive biscuit?
" Second Life Destination Guide - A Virtual World Directory for your Virtual Life. Learning. Strategic-plan-2012-15. Business Studies - Unistats. UCAS code: N10A KIS stands for Key Information Set. The KIS is an official overview of comparable information on higher education courses for prospective students. Accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). (Opens in a new window) . Close Courses on Unistats are all recognised UK awards. Accredited by the EFMD Quality Improvement System. Find out more about accreditation (Opens in a new window)More on employment & accreditation. The OU's mission. The Open University's mission is to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. Wikipedia: Open University.