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scaling process.
The SIJ also has multiple entry and exit points –
a social innovation project does not have to go
through all the stages, but can enter and exit
along the Journey according to their stage of
maturity and experience. Each progression
requires the adoption of specific tools and
competences, provided through the support of
professional advices.
Within both circles, the activities of the SIJ are
organized around five main areas:
1. Who (stages 1 and 6) – supporting a mix of
people in becoming a group and a team, thus
working on raising awareness, engaging
stakeholders, building capacity and skills and
outlining roles.
2. What (stages 2 and 7) - helping the social
innovation to transform their first vision into an
idea and to formulate the idea into a proposal,
defining the social value proposition and the
design of the solution.
3. How (stages 3 and 8) – looking at the viability
of the social innovation, by investigating its
sustainability, business model and financial
plan, thus developing the proposal into a more
structured organization and into a form of
social enterprise, if suitable.
4. How (stages 5 and 6) – looking at the
feasibility of the social innovation by verifying
and testing its technical and operational model,
thus trying to move the social innovation from
being a series of hypothesis to one or more
prototypes.
5. Why (centre of the circle) – the social impact
at the centre of the model as the goal of the
overall Social Innovation Journey and a
condition to be assessed in all stages of the
journey.
In the forthcoming issues of this eMag we will
be looking into each of these areas into greater
depth and detail.
Moreover we will present some of the tools
developed, adapted and tested by TRANSITION
in order to support the scaling of social
innovation.
Take part to the Social Innovation Journey!