Edina Vadovics is a key expert in an EU project (URBACT Capitalization: Social Innovation in Cities) studying, evaluating and promoting social innovation in cities. The objective of the project is to collect and evaluate the social innovation related experience in projects supported through the URBACT framework, supplement them with experience from similar programmes in order to reflect on the lessons learnt and ensure that other cities can benefit from these experiences and adapt  to their own context the solutions to urban challenges developed within the programme.

In particular, the capitalisation process aims to consolidate and disseminate practical knowledge on sustainable urban policies while creating a new knowledge on the basis of the URBACT experiences produced within the projects but also on the basis of existing experience and knowledge coming from similar or complementary European projects/ programmes outside the URBACT programme. As a mean to foster mainstreaming of best practices and policy recommendations, the dissemination of this new knowledge follows each phase of Capitalisation.

Further information is available on the project website where interested parties also have the chance to get involved in the discussion:

http://www.sustainable-everyday-project.net/urbact-socialinnovationincities/

To build on GreenDependent's as well as her own experience in social innovation, Edina Vadovics was invited to be a member of the international advisory board of the TRANSIT (TRANsformative Social Innovation Theory) European research (FP7) project.

Further information on the project can be found on its website.