INSPIRE
Social Entrepreneurs Network Project

Workplace Innovation Europe is an international not-for-profit organization in Ireland, established to promote better, more productive and healthier ways of working through research, dissemination, policy advocacy and consultancy. The team of the WIE is expertise in workplace innovation, employment relations, skills utilization and development, economic development, public policy, media and communications. The organization created tools and resources that draw on international research to provide the practical knowledge needed in the workplace; and highlighted the role of trade unions and employers’ organizations as “knowledgeable participants” in workplace innovation.

The Innovative Thinking Association, founded by prioritizing the goals of “Sustainable Development,” to support the creation of ecosystems in the “existence” and development processes of individuals and communities in the globalizing world and produce an innovative influence on thinking systems. In order to counter critical issues such as poverty, migration, youth unemployment, social exclusion, climate change, and environmental problems, it aims to develop mechanisms and policies that will strengthen the development of 21st-century skills such as analytical thinking, creativity, innovation, digital skills, and problem-solving at local and national level. With a holistic approach and a multicultural work/ learning environment, the association carries out training and projects by adopting a design-oriented, innovative thinking lens for meeting all modern-day needs from individual to organizational, in coordination with a professional network national and international. ITA develops the program and training modules to take attention in global issues: critical thinking, design thinking, game-based learning, environment training tools, digital storytelling with promoting non-formal learning methodology.

Iscte is a public university established in 1972. Iscte is a high-quality public university distinguished for its strength in postgraduate studies and scientific research. It hosts approximately 9000 students in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs of its 4 schools: Iscte Business School, the School of Sociology and Public Policy, the School of Technology and Architecture and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. The university also is actively engaged in collaborative projects, networks and partnerships around the world, including a range of European Union-supported educational, training and research programs. Iscte has established (inter)national cooperation with a large number of universities, research institutes and public, private and 3rd sector organizations. It has a strong link to and impacts on science, the economy, and society.

Voices of the World is a non-profit organization based in Brussels, Belgium. VOW works in implementing regional, national, European and International projects in social cohesion, diversity and integration, a European common education framework, entrepreneurship, and Edtech. It collaborates with other international stakeholders NGOs, educational and research centers, and companies to achieve its objectives. VOW promotes the involvement of youth in policymaking at the local, national and EU level, it provides digital literacy training: Coding, algorithms, graphic design, communications, and online education; educates and encourages the involvement of youth in advocating for environmental sustainability and going green. VOW uses a community approach to tackle the formal or informal educational gap that exists for all age groups. With the help of researchers and educators and youth workers. It aims to create sustainable solutions to societal and economical gaps. It often organizes socio-cultural activities in collaboration with the Flanders state of Brussels to promote regional social cohesion and integration for migrants, and provides training and integration guidance to refugees and migrants. VOW has been partnering and coordinating Erasmus+ projects since 2018.

İstasyonTEDU – TED University Center for Social Innovation, established on 8th April 2016, is a multifunctional co-production space, contributing to the development of social innovation and social entrepreneurship ecosystems, to support the strengthening of university-society interaction, and to bring social benefit-oriented actors together. İstasyonTEDU offers non-financial support to social entrepreneurs and social innovators; carries out intermediary activities that strengthen and unify the ecosystem by conducting trainings, consultancy, events, public dialogue studies and applied research projects.