Press Release: Three projects meet the European Job Challenge and receive the Social Innovation Prize

Social innovation can be a tool to create new or better jobs, while giving an answer to pressing challenges faced by Europe.

On 20 May 2014, Michel Barnier, European Commissioner, awarded three European Social Innovation prizes to ground-breaking ideas to create new types of work and address social needs.

The winning projects aim to help disadvantaged women by employing them to create affordable and limited fashion collections, create jobs in the sector of urban farming, and convert abandoned social housing into learning spaces and entrepreneurship labs.

ESO: Background information: Social Innovation Prize: who will meet the Job Challenge? http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-social-innovation-prize-who-will-meet-the-job-challenge/

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