Call for Social Innovation cases in Forests

CALL FOR FORESTS INNOVATION CASES IN Marginalised Rural Areas

Hurry up and send your project to get a chance to present it during the 6^th Mediterranean forest week

Are you part of a social innovation project?

How innovative is your project?

What impact it has on the society?

What societal challenges it is mitigating?

Does it contribute to increasing human well-being, responding to social demands?

Are you part of an organization? Or a part of a group of interested people? Or an individual contributing to Social development?

Seeds-int , as part of the Social Innovation in Marginalized Rural Areas(SIMRA), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, is launching a call for interested Innovation actions to present their projects in development during the 6^th Mediterranean forest week that is going to be held in Lebanon April 1 to 5, 2019.

We mean by social innovation “the reconfiguring of social practices in response to societal challenges that seek to enhance the outcomes on societal well-being and necessarily include the engagement of civil society actors. SI aims to increase human wellbeing, responding to social demands that markets for existing institutions do not traditionally address. Through SI, diverse actors, including civil society, entrepreneurs, and policy makers, create or reconfigure social arrangements or networks, with the goal of enhancing development outcomes with respect to the economy, society and the environment.

SI can introduce new solutions to challenges faced by rural areas, especially those considered to be marginalized. To link SIs with desired policy outcomes, account needs to be taken of local conditions and intermediating factors, to make better use of SIs for the development of marginalized rural areas.S

Should you meet these criteria, kindly fill the attached application of your Social Innovation project on forests and send it by e-mail to info@seeds-int. org

• The SI must be related to the forestry sector if possible
• The SI should take place in the Mediterranean and the Near East region
• The SI (project or initiative) should take place in a Marginalized Rural Areas (MRA)
• The SI should deal with a new project /process/ technology/ product/ service. It should have an innovation in the project idea: a new social approach or new solutions, new ways of looking at a social problem and addressing new or previously ignored target groups (youth, women…).
• The SI should respond to a social challenge/demand that existing institutions do not address  
• The SI should involve local stakeholders/ civil society members as active participants
• The SI should meet social, environmental or economic aims/goals considering to improve societal well-being

Deadline for submission is 25^th of March 2019