About Us

Forum for Social Innovation Sweden Forum for Social Innovation Sweden) is a national knowledge and collaboration platform for social innovation, with five nodes based at five universities in Sweden: the University of Borås, Luleå University of Technology, Malmö University, Umeå University, and Örebro University. We work to strengthen social innovation as a force for societal change through research-based knowledge and cross-sectoral collaboration.

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At Forum for Social Innovation Sweden , we Forum for Social Innovation Sweden across sectors with multiple organizations and stakeholders in various processes and projects. How we contribute depends on the societal challenge—its needs, context, and goals. A common thread in all our work is that we connect stakeholders, knowledge, and perspectives to strengthen the long-term conditions for co-creation aimed at societal change. See what types of support we offer and explore how we can collaborate.

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This is how we create value through knowledge and collaboration

Forum for Social Innovation Sweden's is based on the premise that complex societal challenges can rarely be solved by individual actors, projects, or methods alone. They require cross-sectoral collaboration, long-term learning, and structures that make it possible to build on experiences over time.

Our value as a platform for knowledge and collaboration lies not primarily in individual activities, but in our ability to bridge the gap between research and practice so that social innovation can have an impact on society.

Projects and Collaborations

The projects Forum for Social Innovation Sweden and in which Forum for Social Innovation Sweden participates are used both to drive development in specific areas and to build shared knowledge about social innovation at the local, regional, and national levels, as well as in Sweden and Europe. These projects bring together research, practice, and policy, and through this work, new solutions can be developed, and experiences can be tracked, analyzed, and put to further use. Lessons learned from individual projects form the basis for our knowledge and methodology development, as well as for our efforts to disseminate these insights to a wider audience across various sectors of society.

Projects and Collaborations

Methods and tools

The methods and tools developed within Forum for Social Innovation Sweden are based on both research and practical experience. The aim is to make complex knowledge useful and research accessible and applicable through concepts, models, and various types of methods and tools that can support social innovation. These methods do not provide ready-made solutions. They help you understand and critically reflect, work creatively or in a structured manner with processes, navigate various relationships and norms, and support collaboration with different target groups in social innovation work.

Methods and tools

Doctoral students who took the course "Social Innovation in Theory and Practice."

Meeting places

Meeting places that enable different people, stakeholders, organizations, and sectors to come together are a central part of our work. Through seminars, workshops, learning processes, and conferences, Forum for Social Innovation Sweden creates Forum for Social Innovation Sweden where stakeholders and different sectors can come together and develop a shared understanding of both societal challenges and possible paths forward. These meeting places foster new relationships, deeper dialogue, and shared learning, and often serve as a starting point for continued collaboration and knowledge development.

Meeting places

Knowledge

Through market intelligence, interviews, surveys, analyses, and follow-ups, Forum for Social Innovation Sweden tracks and compiles Forum for Social Innovation Sweden and examples of social innovation. We make this knowledge accessible to a wider audience through publications, our collection of case studies, and our editorial work. This knowledge resource places individual experiences within a broader context and helps ensure that knowledge and lessons learned do not remain confined to individual actors or time-limited initiatives. In this way, these experiences can be applied in new contexts and at various levels.

Knowledge

This is how we are organized

Forum for Social Innovation Sweden organized as a national knowledge and collaboration platform with five Forum for Social Innovation Sweden based at an equal number of higher education institutions in Sweden: at the University of Borås, Luleå University of Technology, Malmö University, Umeå University, and Örebro University.

An important part of our approach is collaboration between our universities and with various stakeholders outside academia. Forum for Social Innovation Sweden contribute knowledge, methods, and meeting places related to and for social innovation, drawing on various academic disciplines and areas of expertise as well as their local and regional contexts. Forum for Social Innovation Sweden as an infrastructure for co-creation in research, education, and innovation.

The platform makes it possible to pool knowledge, expertise, and resources in joint research and project proposals and to work in a coordinated manner in both national and international contexts. Together, the nodes contribute to Forum for Social Innovation Sweden's collective standing through shared knowledge and established contacts and networks in Sweden and Europe.