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In short Spark Sessions are:
• promotional events to attract social
entrepreneurs and innovators, and offer
information, advice and guidance
• an initial knowledge transfer on social
innovation
• a first harvest for good social innovation
ideas
• awareness events around social innovation
related topics
TRANSITION TIPS
PRE (Paris) used its Spark Session as a launch
event, giving an opportunity for selected SIs to
meet each other, mentors and sponsors and
offer resources to each other. It included a
speed dating type event where mentors could
pitch on their capabilities.
POLIMI (Milan) ran ‘Scouting Sessions’ with
partners as a way of promoting the
programme – this helped to reach some
innovators in sectors they wouldn’t otherwise
have reached.
SIP (Bilbao) experimented with running a
‘coompetition’ to promote TRANSITION, but it
wasn’t very successful in bringing in
applications, perhaps because there are too
many other similar competitions. It’s now
working more with partners to promote the
programme.