• Meet Paul

Paul Erian is a Junior Expert Advisor working at the AIT. He is mainly involved in the FP7 funded project SEiSMiC (Societal Engagement in Science, mutual learning in Cities) and the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe. The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria's largest non-university research institute is among the European research institutes a specialist in the key infrastructure issues of the future. As a national and international network node at the interface of science and industry AIT enables innovation through its scientific-technological expertise, market experience, tight customer relationships and high quality research infrastructure.
 
The workshop Social Innovation in a “new economy” will focus on and discuss upon two different notions. First will be the structural aspects of an enabling environment for social innovation and social entrepreneurship. The second notion will lie on a more hands on perspective of Social entrepreneurship. What is it? And how to become a social entrepreneur?
The workshop will start with an input, followed by group work and a plenary discussion.
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