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1 September 2022 15:00-16:00

Across Europe we see divided nations and communities and how citizens feel left behind. Many experience that they have few opportunities to influence their own lives, as well as opportunities to influence the development of society. Involving those concerned is a key component when designing sustainable solutions to the societal challenges of today. 

Welcome to Social Innovation Foresight on Reimagining democracy, 1 September, at 3 to 4 PM, CET, where we reflect on and explore the problems of democracy and suggest different ways forward.

What are the main democracy issues? How can different actors and organisations empower citizens and assure that we give high quality access and voice to people in the margins, to the excluded or forgotten? How can research and innovation help to address the current challenges for democracies? How important is community involvement and empowerment for social innovation and for democracy? What different innovative ideas, alternatives and models are there? What can we achieve when involving a diversity of perspectives, from all sectors and target groups in society, in designing solutions for tomorrow? How can we reimagine democracy?

The panelists are:
Swati Banerjee, (PhD) Professor and Program Convenor at the School of Social Work, Centre for Livelihoods and Social Innovation at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
Katja Reppel, Head of Unit Directorate-Generale Research and Innovation (RTD), European Commission and,
Gorka Espiau Idoiaga (PhD) the Director at the “Agirre Lehendakaria Center for Social and Political Studies”. 

The talk is moderated by Erin Cory, Assistant professor and senior lecturer at Malmö University.

Time:
1 September, 3 to 4 PM, CET

Place: The event is digital and will be broadcasted on Forum for Social Innovation Sweden's webpage. A link will be sent to you upon registration.

For you who are in Malmö welcome to join us at Malmö University in Storm, at Gäddan, Citadellsvägen 7, to watch the livestream of the talk together. We will serve “fika” from 2:45 PM.

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    Speakers and moderator

    Swati Banerjee
    Professor and Program Convenor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)

    Swati Banerjee, PhD is Professor and Program Convenor at the School of Social Work, Centre for Livelihoods and Social Innovation at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She also co-ordinates the Right Livelihood College, RLC- Mumbai which is part of the global network of universities initiated by The Right Livelihood Foundation that connects academia to practice.She has been a post-doctoral fellow at Lund University, Sweden and visiting faculty at many Universities across the world including University of Roskilde, Lund University, University of British Columbia etc.

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    Katja Reppel
    Head of Unit, European Commission's Directorate General for Research and Innovation

    Head of Unit in charge of democracy and European values in the European Commission's Directorate General for Research and Innovation. Her unit contributes to defining evidence-based innovative solutions, incl. for promoting trust in governance, the future of democracy, civil security, and countering polarisation and disinformation. Her unit also supports citizens' engagement in R&I policy making. She has over 25 years of experience in different European, international and national organisations, dealing mainly with innovation policy, SME competitiveness, digital economy, gender mainstreaming, and smart specialisation.

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    Gorka Espiau Idoiaga
    Director of the Agirre Lehendakaria Center for Social and Political Studies

    Gorka Espiau Idoiaga (PhD) is the Director of the Agirre Lehendakaria Center for Social and Political Studies, a partnership established by the University of the Basque Country and Columbia University (AC4). Espiau is also Scientific Director of Work4Progress initiative powered by La Caixa Foundation. Previously he served as Senior Advisor to the Executive Office of the Basque President, Professor of Practice at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM-McGill University) and Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace.

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    Erin Cory
    Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer, Malmö University

    Erin Cory is a media scholar committed to arts-oriented activist media praxis. She has taught and researched in the US/Mexico border region, Denmark, Sweden, and Lebanon. After a postdoc in Media Studies and Refugee Migration at Malmö University, she won a solo grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. She is currently partnering with The Cultural Avenue Uganda to carry out a digital storytelling project for refugee and host communities, funded by Svenska Institutet's Creative Force Initiative, and is publishing work on podcasting as a community-building and research practice.

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    Organizers

    Forum for Social Innovation Sweden
    Malmö University