Manuela Fernández Borrero, Lecturer of Social Psychology.

Universidad de Huelva (Spain) manuela.fernandez@ole.uhu.es

Blanca Miedes Ugarte, Professor of Applied Economy.

Universidad de Huelva (Spain ) miedes@uhu.es

Observatorio Local de Empleo. Universidad de Huelva , www.ole.uhu.es,

Technical Team Plan Integral Distrito 5 Huelva distrito5@valdocco.org

*EUROPEAN COMMISSION (2009): The World in 2025. Rising Asia and Socio-

Ecological Transition. Directorate-General for Research, Research*eu

http://ec.europa.eu/research/research-eu.

SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION

The World in 2025 Report:

• Current societies face major economic and social tensions that are demanding a socio-ecological transition at global level.

• It is important to take into account the territorial dimension of the causes and effects of these tensions.

• It is needed to strengthen mechanisms and instruments of territorial governance to enable a more adapted transition to population needs in each territory.

We need to promote a new socio-ecological transition in order to change

• The metabolic profile (energy use, material use),

• The infrastructure,

• The range of technologies,

• The demographic reproduction,

• The environmental impact and regulatory positive and negative feedbacks between the socio-economic system and the natural environment.

• But perhaps most important thing is to promote a change in the economic and governance structures.

Social Innovation

* MORALES GUTIÉRREZ, A. C. (2009a) "Innovación social y servicios sociales" Zerbitzuan.

Revista de Servicios Sociales, 45, 151-178.

Social Innovation

• It is a social developmnet action (that improves thewell-being and/or social cohesion).

• Which suposes an original change.

• It obtains qualitative transformations throughnetworking systems.

• It has to be reproducible*

Social Innovation Changes

Mental processes: creativity

and divergentthought.

Instrumental processes: network,

organizationalsystem and territorial implication.

Behaviouralprocesses: opening, empathy,

tolerance and risk.

Social Processes: divseristy,

transformationand integration

processes

Multidimensional

Social cohesion

ParticipativeNetworks

Change our visionabout the ploblems

Multisectorial intervention

Projects should resolve neighbors’ and territories’ needs and wishes

D5 APROACH

Collective Intelligence

SOCIO-TERRITORIAL INNOVATION

Social Innovation

Territorial Innovation

Socio-territorial

Innovation

Socio-Territorial Innovation

Knowledged-based development combining economic

competitiveness and employment growth, social well-

being, environmental quality and civil participation.

It implies transformations, new methodologies, results,

processes, etc.

Territorial Intelligence

PLAN INTEGRAL DEL DISTRITO V

Territory: Peripherical arean in Huelva city (165.000 hab.)Population: 20.000 hab. in 7 districts.Is well recognized example of local governance, networking, civil participation in Combating

Poverty and Social Exclusion. X ANNIVERSARY in 2010.

Good Practice by United Nations (2008).

Good Practice in Torino (2003) in the Second European Round Table on Poverty and Social Exclusion.

Regional award: Voluntary network ing(2010).

55 Diverse

actors

Bottom-up

approach.

Governance

and action-

research

EL PLAN INTEGRAL DEL DISTRITO V

2008-TODAY: SECOND STAGE

New structure. New entities/actors. New challenges.

2003-2008: FIRST STAGE

Awards. The city council leaves the plan ( 2004). Important results and challenges.

II Prospective seminary. Analisis and technical reports.

2002: DESIGN

Starting up. Entities and institutions adhesions (Regional and Local Goverment, ONG’).

2001: DIAGNOSIS

Multidimensional problems Need of integral actions I Prospective seminary

2000: DIAGNOSIS-DRAFT

VALDOCCO OLE (UHU)

THEMATICS FORUMS (6)

PROJECTS COMMISSIONSPROJECTS

PLAN INTEGRAL’S STRUCTURE:

Staff 2 people = 70.000 € a year, founded by

Regional Goverment (Wellbeing Department)

Submision to diverse

competititive call for

proposals to get founds

PLAN INTEGRAL LIKE AN EXAMPLE OF SOCIAL AND

TERRITORIAL INNOVATION

The objetctive is not only overcoming problems and difficulties but the

generation of social and community dynamics that allow facing

creatively and effectively the challenges, to obtain empowerment.

RESOURCES AND

TERRITORY

LOCAL ACTORS

(PUBLIC AND

PRIVATE)

NETWORK

ORGANIZATION

INSTITUTIONAL

COOPERATION AND

CITIZENSHIP

INNOVACIÓN Interaction + learning and

transformation

GOBERNANCE STRUCTURE

MULTINIVEL. HETERARCHY

Agility, synergies, METHODOLOGIES.

Analysis of threats and risks.

Management of conflicts.

Agreements

Participacion of verydiverse actors.

ACTION-RESEARCH.

EVALUATION.

Scientific foundation of actions.

Shared construction of actors capabilities.

POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT

PROSPECTIVE VISION

Challenges definition

Needs evaluation.

Actions planning

Transversal focus in action.

Beyond participation,

D5 is social innovation

DEMOCRATIC

STRUCTURE.CITIZENSHIP

PARTICIPATION

Flowchart: citizenship

accedes from the forums and the

assembly.

Participation of neighbour

associations.

Civil and territorial needs.

PERMANENT AND LONG-

TERM DEVELOPMENT

Perspective

Behavioural and social processes

Construction of trust networks.

Development of social capital

TERRITORIAL DIMENSION

Consideration of the territorial dimension.

The Territory like object but mainly as

subject

Beyond the participation,

D5 is social innovation

D5 is social innovation

Proximity

Wellbeing

Social Capital

Multinivel governance

Democratic

Dynamic

Trust

networks

ContinuityCooperative

work

Proactive

Quality of life

It is not the panacea. Conflicts do exist, but D5 allows to place them in a global perspective and to reduce

tensions …

PARTICIPATION FOR

A BETTER LIFE

TEN YEARS RESULTS

More than 30 projects,

approximately 3.600

involve PEOPLE each year.

More than 35 radio

interviews , more than 60

participative workshops

and meetings….

Health’s center

RegularizationRehabilitation of housings (1.400)

Employers' organization

Fight againstabsenteeism Dynamization

TEN YEARS RESULTS

Studies and scientifcs

papers. Participative-

action-research.

Youth: leisure, sexuality, traffic …

Image’s change

Workshops of autoesteem

Sports plan

WITH THIS INNOVATIVE PRACTICE

THE PLAN CONTINUES WORKING FOR …

To finish with social exclusion

Management of conflicts

To work with youth, with women, elders …

Empowerment

To increase citizenship participation

To obtain institutional local

support/help

To develop new technologies and tools in diagnoses, evaluations, planning and projects …

To solve in an integral way needs and problems

THANK YOU