People's Voice Media Institute of Community Reporters will be training 100 Community Reporters across 10 countries to capture the stories of people's experience of social investment and social innovation. The reporters will join the European Network of Community Reporters.
The Innovative Social Investment: Strengthening communities in Europe (InnoSI) project is a consortium led by the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit based at Manchester Metropolitan University. They are joined by nine other universities from across Europe and a group of impact partners led by the Euclid Network.
The consortium is embarking on a major research and innovation project looking at how innovative social investment policies can strengthen communities in Europe. The project, funded by the European Commission and lasting 30 months, asks important questions about how European welfare systems designed to protect against twentieth century social and economic risks need to change in the twenty first century.
The project director, Professor Chris Fox, stressed that this is not a traditional research project:
Understanding the experiences of people across Europe who are on the receiving end of social policies is key to our project. That's why we will be working with People's Voice Media recruiting 100 community reporters from across Europe and training them so that they can report the experiences of their communities.
The InnoSI project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.