Methods and tools

Here we have compiled methods and tools for working with social innovation. They are based on both research and practical experience and aim to make complex knowledge useful, accessible, and applicable. Here you will find frameworks, models, and various types of methods that support collaboration, reflection, and learning, and that help stakeholders work in a more structured and creative way with processes, roles, relationships, and norms.

Orientation map for societal change

The orientation map helps you navigate the various factors that facilitate or hinder the development and implementation of innovative solutions to societal challenges. It can be used by anyone who leads, supports, or studies such processes. The map is based on research into social innovation ecosystems and lessons learned from Forum for Social Innovation Sweden.

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The social innovation process

Social innovations are developed through a process that encompasses multiple elements aimed at initiating, establishing, and integrating innovative solutions to societal challenges. At Forum for Social Innovation Sweden, we use this model to illustrate what such processes might look like, based on Swedish and international research.

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Theory of Change

Social innovations are new, innovative services, products, processes, partnerships, and methods designed to address societal challenges. But how do we measure the impact of these social innovations?

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Future-Making Academy

The Future-making Academy is a concept focused on complexity, future-making, and collaboration. The idea for a reading circle within the Future-making Academy was developed at Malmö University by researchers working closely with Pernilla Glaser and Forum for Social Innovation Sweden.

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The Coalition Method

Are you working on a complex societal challenge? And would you like help with a process for collaboration and change that transcends organizational and sectoral boundaries? Through the coalition approach, we promote knowledge sharing, new partnerships, and innovative solutions to societal challenges.

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