- We innovate
- We create new ways of doing things
- We challenge ourselves and each other
Social innovation is based on equality. It is important that everyone contributes with perspectives, ideas, questions and resources. We do this by showing trust and respect in our collaboration with each other and with the outside world. We believe that relationships create empowerment, unlock hidden resources and create change.
The Academy is member-owned and managed by a board of directors elected at the annual General Assembly. The Board consists of a chairperson, a deputy chairperson and five other members. The board's competences and profile must reflect the Academy's composition and ambitions.
The secretariat handles the most important tasks:
- Ensuring topicality in the Academy's work
- Bringing together relevant actors in concrete communities of action
- Further developing the Academy's form and content
Social innovation has deep historical roots and is internationally recognized as both a field of research and an approach to social change. Leading bodies such as the EU, OECD and World Economic Forum have social innovation at the top of their agenda, as do a large number of recognized universities around the world. Several of our European partners have national strategies for social innovation.
Since 2020, Danish Social Innovation Academy has been the Danish national competence center for social innovation (under the EU program ESF+). In a pan-European consortium, we work to strengthen the ecosystem for social innovation - both nationally and across EU Member States - and to pave the way for national strategies.
A working group under the Academy, consisting of the Confederation of Danish Industry, the Danish Business Authority and the Danish Chamber of Commerce, supports the ongoing work to create broad capacity building and broader anchoring of social innovation in Denmark.
