fbpx

Social Innovation Awards 2023

The Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Awards 2023 have just been revealed. Read further to discover more about these awards and this year’s winners.

‘The world is at a critical juncture as economies and livelihoods are battered by multiple overlapping crises, from war in Ukraine to climate change and the fallout of COVID-19. Yet again, it is the most vulnerable populations that are being hit the hardest. Better ways to tackle exclusion, inequality and ongoing environmental damage are urgently needed to restore trust and rebuild societal systems.

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship’s 16 award winning organizations for social innovation in 2023 represent a beacon of hope in these difficult times. By providing practical and scalable solutions to deep-rooted problems, they are demonstrating that change is possible, and they are achieving remarkable transformations through innovative cooperation.

Their work is providing a lifeline for those most at risk from traumatic disruption in today’s fragmented world – especially young people, women, and minority groups.

The 2023 award winners include 24 leaders working across sectors to leverage technology in education, agriculture, microfinance, environmental projects and empowering and representing women in the world’s growing informal economies. The impact of their programmes is felt from farms in Africa and villages across Asia to the rainforests in Latin America and left-behind communities in Europe and North America.'(1)

Congratulations to all the winners changing the world for the better!

Find out who has been granted these incredible awards this year on World Economic Forum’s page.

——————-

Learn more at Social Innovation Academy 

Social Innovation Academy is the first fully online management training programme focusing exclusively on social innovation.

Why Social Innovation Academy? Social innovation has increasingly come to be perceived as the answer to the rising number of European societal challenges. While the European authorities, leading academics, policy experts, business people and activists agree that social innovation is the key to a better future for Europe and the world, it is extremely difficult for professionals to obtain high-quality training on what social innovation actually offers and, more importantly, how it can be done in practice.

The Social Innovation Academy is aiming to change this situation in Europe and beyond. If you are interested in keeping up with this project, you can subscribe to our newsletter, become one of our friends or follow us on social media (LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook). We welcome all requests for collaboration here.

 


References:

(1) Text copyrights: World Economic Forum’s website, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/davos-2023-social-innovation-awards-2023/ 

Photo by fauxels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-people-near-wooden-table-3184418/ 

Subscribe to Social Innovation Academy updates

 

8 examples of corporate social innovation worth considering in your company

Corporate Social Innovation (CSI) spans different fields and sectors; here are some of the initiatives that firms have integrated into their operations.

8 examples of social innovations for the circular economy in Hong Kong

What are the latest examples of innovations for the circular economy in Hong Kong? How are social innovation and the circular economy related?

Disruptive design: catalyst of social change

Interview with Cristina Yoshida and Diego del Moral, co-founders of Collective of Disruptive Design.At the intersection of systems thinking and design thinking, Collective of Disruptive Design (Colectivo de Diseño Disruptivo in Spanish) seeks out collaborative...

Tech-oriented social innovation: 8 tips from one of the leading start-up enabling platforms in Europe

Interested in learning how to make your tech-oriented social innovation successful? Learn from one of the leading start-up platforms in Europe.

8 societal lessons emerging from the COVID-19 crisis

The new knowledge emerging from the COVID-19 crisis offers some important societal lessons about the future of the world as we know it.

8 examples of social innovation in Singapore

What are the social innovation projects, services and products that power Singapore? Check out 8 recent remarkable social innovation examples!

4 social innovators share with SOCIA their thoughts about the social innovation learning needs in the VET system

Innovation is considered as a key source of competitiveness, sustainable economic growth and social cohesion by the European Commission and, particularly, social innovation is seen as a useful tool to respond to contemporary challenges. Thus, the role of education has...

Tech Transfer: One Piece in The SDG Achievement Puzzle

There is no single method to achieve the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). In the same way, there is no single actor that can allow us to reach our social, environmental and economic aims. There are, however, many small actions by many different actors that...

Would you like to collaborate? Get in touch!

Share This

Share This

Share this post with your network!