Social Innovations Incubator

"Social Innovations Incubator: Threads of Connection in Times of Radicalization" creates a network which connects the potential  of young people with the necessities of people and locations that have fallen short of access to culture, education and economic resources.

The Incubator sets the ball of change rolling by involving hundreds of volunteers who stimulate the realization of actual solutions to actual social problems. They work in the field using design-thinking, creativity and the art they have mastered - and then, in the long term, they develop their own social change ideas.

Projects phases

The project consists of a one-month artistic residence, and the Social Change Challenge and Art Innovation Challenge formats, which aim to provoke artistic and socially engaged people from multiple disciplines to work with communities as a way to find answers to actual social problems. Experience-exchange, and presentation of all that has been achieved, will take place during the 3-days International Forum for Empathy-Driven Social Innovations EMPATHEAST.

Find out the best EMPATHEAST 2019 talks in English:

• Solutions to energy poverty - Bushan Trivedi https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=anDWB8c69Gs
• Micropolitics of cultural work - Istvan Sczakats https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=s7mXSWb1mGw
• We are made of stories. Let's tell some new ones! - Will Buckingham and Hannah Stevens https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=doD8cgjx-Bk
• Impacts of the title European capital of Culture - Amjad Al-Mestarihy and Sarp Keskiner https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ou2KuqkOseg&t=342s
• Solidarity economy models - Jason Nardy https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=9rbR7nsrU_I

"Social Innovations Incubator: Threads of Connection in Times of Radicalization" is a project of the Ideas Factory Association. Further information - ideasfactorybg.org