STREAM 11
Social Innovation and Education

Chairs: Karina Maldonado-Mariscal (TU Dortmund University, Germany), 
Silvia Monteiro (University of Minho, Portugal), Rosa Isusi-Fagoaga (University of Valencia, Spain)

Social innovation in education remains an under-researched concept despite the current global crises and the universal call to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the grand challenges such as the end of the poverty, protect the planet, and foster peace and prosperity.
The interactions between the educational sector, society and industry have been attracting increased attention in terms of ways to develop social innovation solutions to societal problems. Despite calls from politicians and some EU guidelines, we know little about how educational institutions and educators can incorporate social innovation activities into their structure, missions and daily-life.
Social innovation in education focuses on studying and understanding new partnerships, new teaching-learning approaches, new management and creative forms of collaboration between individuals, organizations, educational institutions, civil society, local communities, government and non-governmental organisations, local sponsors, among others, to improve society through education. All of these aspects and actors can be engaged in creative problem solving to foster innovative processes, products and services.
In this stream, we focus on approaches of social innovation which recognises innovation in education as a result of local needs for change and implement transformative models to achieve an education adapted to the needs of today's societies. Some of the relevant issues may include how educational institutions, educators, but also non-educational actors can be empowered to develop innovative approaches to achieve social challenges and how this process can be supported.
Some suggested topics for this panel are:

• Alternative / Transformative education as a pathway to social innovation.

• Case studies of social innovation in education.

• Competencies to promote social innovation.

• Entrepreneurship education with a social innovation perspective. 

• Social innovation in higher education.

• Social innovation in vocational education other education institutions.

• Innovative teaching and learning methods.

• Innovation of education with communities and non-educational actors. 

• New perspectives on education for Sustainable Development Goals.

• Theoretical frameworks for social innovation in education.