Social innovation – from idea to implementation!

On October 9-11, 2014 team of Local Economic Development Agency of Yavoriv region took part in a three-day training course “Social innovation – from idea to implementation!”, organized by the Institute of Leadership and Management of the Ukrainian Catholic University and the Lviv regional state administration.

The main open questions were: how to create and implement innovative solutions? How social innovation can be a trigger for the development of the organization in times of change?

As a result of the course, participants learn to improve capacity of NGOs to develop innovative ideas as part of its activities for solving social problems. This course will allow participants to achieve the highest flexibility in finding, identifying and adapting ideas to the circumstances in which the NGO operates.

The course “Social innovation – from idea to implementation!” contained a combination of theory and practical exercises, training on their own projects and achievements. The result of course was the understanding of a coherent picture of the creation of an effective model of innovative ideas for a particular organization, regardless of the scope of its activities.

Trainer Joao Viana Perret is a teacher and manager with 15 years of international experience in strategy, marketing, bringing companies to the international market. Joao Viana Perret is the founder of an investment fund «LeonardShop» (Lisbon, Portugal), teacher of the course “Entrepreneurship and Innovation” program to MSs in Innovations and Entrepreneurship and the course “Business Development” for MSs Program in Technology Management in Lviv Business School.