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ASK and CERGAS to Study the Third Sector's Social Innovation

, by Fabio Todesco
As partners in a research project funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme

Two Bocconi research centres, ASK (Arts, Science and Knowledge) and CERGAS (Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management), are partners of the European research network which has received a € 2.5 mln contribution from the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme for the three-year research project ITSSOIN (Impact of the Third Sector as Social INnovation in Europe).

Coordinated by the Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg, the project aims at investigating the reasons why third sector organizations are better at social innovation than public sector agencies and firms and, secondly, to establish the links between civic engagement and social innovation.

The ASK and CERGAS research centres focus on the role of the no-profit cultural sector in order to understand its social innovation capacity

The scientific supervisor for Bocconi is Alex Turrini.

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