Aims
This project aims at creating a Strategic Partnership to innovation to realize an educational program for social solopreneurs.
It will contribute to promote Digital Social Innovation (DSI) competence and creative skills among adult people and educate them on the emerging top
self-employment opportunities for a social solopreneur, such as social influencer, social blogger, virtual social assistance, social consultant,
social media consultant, life coach, etc.
According to the DSI Final Report funded by the European Commission, DSI is defined as:
“A type of social and collaborative innovation in which innovators, users, and communities collaborate using digital technologies
to co-create knowledge and solutions for a wide range of social needs and at a scale and speed that was unimaginable before the rise of the Internet”
(Bria et al., 2015, p. 9)
Addressed needs
Over the last two years, DSI has grown significantly while DSI projects and initiatives have multiplied,
catching the attention of policymakers, governments, and civil society organizations alike (Stokes, Baeck, & Baker, 2017).
The DSI4 Europe report has indicated DSI as a means to contrast the lack of employment opportunities (Sirovátka & Spies, 2017)
whilst creativity is one of the top three skills workers will need in near future according to the report of the World Economic Forum (2016).
With the break of new products, new technologies and new ways of working, workers are going to have to become more creative in order to benefit from these changes.
In this regard, we have to consider that, nowadays, many social services cannot be delivered properly due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
Transferring them to the Internet is possible, but requires specific competence of the social service staff.
At present, many people involved in social services do not have the appropriate skills to improve and modify these services in the internet environment.
For this purpose, partners will consider the following four primary layers:
1.The role of innovation and creativity in self-employment;
2.The use of creativity to improve Social Business processes in a social solopreneur perspective;
3.Technology as a means for stimulating/supporting creativity;
4.Creativity as a key factor of success in DSI.
We will also focus on issues such as:
• What are the initiatives that meet the complexity and turbulence of the new business age (Schiuma, 2011, p.2)?
• Digital technology for social solopreneurs;
• Organizational creativity and innovation;
• Decentralized models of social innovative production.
