During Co-Days in February, there will be a buzz around social innovation at Karlstad Innovation Park, where people from different industries, sectors and organizations meet cross-border to jointly investigate different topics, themes and issues from a socially sustainable and innovative perspective. The purpose of Co-Days is to create a platform for new meetings, new knowledge and collaborations that can lead to more social innovations for a more sustainable Värmland.
We want you to bring an open mindset ready to:
- Together with others, increase your competence and understanding of what social innovation is and entails.
- Dive deep into subjects, issues or challenges that you are a little extra passionate about.
- Alternate attending workshops and activities with your regular job - use Innovation Park as your workplace during these days. Make new contacts and find new possible cross-sector partnerships.
- Open up to new ways of working to take on challenges.
- Welcome the unexpected!
Our participation in Co-Days
Inauguration DigitalWell Innovation Hub
12 Feb: at 16.15-18.30
Premiere for DigitalWell's open innovation environment, come and inaugurate the premises with us. We offer snacks, bubbles and music. Read more about the inauguration here.
Innovation Hub: Health Society X - Workshop
12 Feb: at 11.00-12.00
13 Feb: at 10.45-11.45
What does a healthy society mean? And what might this look like in 2030? In order for us to be able to solve tomorrow's social and health challenges, we need to dare to think, test and work outside the framework we know today. Welcome to create, question and discuss with us during this morning.
Workshop leader: Marika Martin, Process Development Designer at Compare, and Cecilia Karlsson, Process Manager DigitalWell Arena and e-health strategist at Region Värmland.
WHEN
February 12-14, for appointments see program.
PLACE
Karlstad Innovation Park
COST
Free, breakfast sandwich included every day.
ATTENTION! No show fee, see below.
For questions contact Anna-Karin Frykstedt.
Registration information
- There are a limited number of places. Sign up now!
- We really recommend that you are at Innovation Park for two or three days during Co-Days. Time is the key to new knowledge and new ways of working. You are welcome to bring your computer and sit and work in our workspace areas during these days, so you are not bound to attend everything in the program.
- The event is free of charge, but to ensure that the seats are used properly, a no show fee will be charged if you do not attend.
What is social innovation?
Social innovation is about solving social challenges and creating social benefit. It can be services, methods, products or processes that replace or improve social functions or initiatives from the market, to improve people's living conditions either on a local, national or global level.
About Social Innovation Värmland
Social Innovation Värmland is about finding new solutions to societal challenges, preferably by creating new relationships and bridging sector boundaries. There is a potential and opportunity to be challenged, develop common new knowledge, create new partnerships as well as new business and ways of working to reduce gaps, polarization and unhealthy numbers and thus create new paths to livelihood and faith in the future.
The ambition of Co-Days
Our ambition with Co-Days, and Social Innovation Värmland, is to be an arena for stimulating a corporate and organizational culture that promotes social innovation. The ambition is also to be an arena for discussing how politics and policies can be developed so that social innovation is demanded and new starting points and working methods are encouraged.