Social Platform on Innovative Social Services

Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis is a member of the Consortium "Social Platform on Innovative Social Services" (InnoServ) under the FP7 cooperation call (FP7-SSH-2011-3). The aim of the project is to systematize innovation  in social services in the European Union, and it includes the selection, research and filming of "innovative practice examples". Budapest Institute is responsible for the preparation and quality control of the filming process.
The Consortium selected the projects of Sure Start Rainbow Island Child Centre (Katymár) and Real Pearl Basic Art-Educational Foundation (Berettyóújfalu) in Hungary. The short films (3-4 minutes) of all the practice examples will be shared with the public in the spring of 2013 and will be extended with detailed case studies by the summer. The long-term aim of the InnoServ project is to create a knowledge-base upon which further research and the development of social services can be designed and promoted in Europe.

Other members of the consortium are:

- Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany)

- Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (Hamburg, Germany)

- University of Roskilde (Denmark)

- Diakonhjemmet University College (Oslo, Norway)

- Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale, Area Politiche della Formazione e del Lavoro,

(Bologna, Italy)

- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton (Southampton, U.K.)

- Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, France)

- European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities

(EASPD), (Brussels, Belgium)

- SOLIDAR (Brussels, Belgium)

- European Network on Independent Living (ENIL), (Ireland, U.K.)