SIJMA

Mining regions in Europe have their own geographic, social, economic, cultural and even identity characteristics that have marked their past and that mark their present development after the reconversion policies. SIJMA , Social Innovation for Job and development opportunities in Mining Areas in transition around Europe supports regional and interregional learning between 9 public and private organizations with a mining tradition and experience in social innovation in Spain, Greece, North Macedonia, Hungary and Germany to improve policy instruments that foster social innovation and creativity among young people to bring mining areas in transition to life and create development and employment opportunities. How? By identifying, analyzing and transferring good practices on:
- The promotion of public-private cooperation and collaboration with special social innovation centers,
- Entrepreneurship and the use of methodological models based on collective intelligence and co-creation,
- The promotion and improvement of governance at regional and local level through the promotion of ideation and prototyping of actions and participatory innovation laboratories or living labs for the cooperative search for solutions to social problems.
Why social innovation?
Social innovation can make a big difference in addressing the problems of these areas as a source of innovative and dynamic approaches to solving social, demographic, labor, cultural and environmental challenges, mobilising civil society actors and promoting economic, social and environmentally sustainable development from the bottom up.