3, 2, 1… NEMESIS!
Fürth, Germany. October 10th 2017. Around twenty people from fourteen organizations across Europe meet for the first time. Some have known each other for years. For others, this is their first...
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NEMESIS partners meet in Seville
What is social innovation? Is it about finding imaginative solutions for social problems? About subverting power relations? About bringing systemic change? Is it the same that social entrepreneurship?...
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Margherita Bagacilupo: “Schools must open up to their environments”
“Entrepreneurship is like happiness: everyone is searching for it but everybody has their own definition of what it is”. Margherita Bagacilupo, a qualitative researcher and policy analyst at the Joint...
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Meet our Social Innovation Practitioners
In NEMESIS we are trying a social innovation education model for and with schools to empower the changemakers of tomorrow. For that to work, the combination of teacher and social innovators expertise...
View ArticleDeveloping the entrepreneurial citizen
How can the incorporation of democratic citizenship, entrepreneurial competences and social innovation practices in education contribute towards the empowerment of students as active citizens and...
View ArticleNEMESIS teacher training: bringing teachers and social entrepreneurs together
NEMESIS’ first teachers’ training took place in the middle of June in Thessaloniki. A meeting reflecting NEMESIS’ philosophy at their best – combining different knowledge to drive social change- which...
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Introducing NEMESIS schools
In every journey there is a a group of brave pioneers whose involvement and commitment are essential to succeed. Such is the case in our schools. We are already on the hunt for more schools to be...
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Social Innovation in Schools. A proposal for the future of education.
For the last 30 years, students have been taught the same way. We keep teaching them how to acquire and memorise knowledge, even if what they need in this era of ‘information overload’ are skills and...
View ArticleDiscover NEMESIS philosophy in a nutshell: Social Innovation Community (SIC)...
We had the pleasure of attending the last Social Innovation Community meeting in Seville. The discussion centred on how to foster a culture of social innovation and how to ensure the practice of this...
View ArticleWhat is social innovation education and why should I care?
It’s five o’clock, and Óscar – student from year 3- has his hands covered in dust. He’s kneeling in a sunny corner of the playground together with his mother, Itziar, who is rolling up her sleeves...
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How to implement Social Innovation Education effectively in your school?
Change is the only constant. – Heraclitus, Greek philosopher Our world is changing fast and many European education systems are changing accordingly. This requires school leaders to lead changes as...
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With great innovation comes great citizenship…
With great innovation comes great citizenship… How social innovation and youth activism skills complement each other to create the 21st century citizen! Or what Spiderman’s uncle would say if we...
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NEMESIS and the unexpected
In the Co-creation Labs at Rockingham Junior and Infant School the process is bringing up some exciting possibilities and activities that we hadn’t bargained for. One idea that a 10 year old (Year 6)...
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Three concepts in a boat: co-creation, youth-adult interactions and student...
Co-creation is a central piece in NEMESIS model. Such a fancy word deserves a better explanation. What follows is an attempt at translating it into educational jargon. I’ll be indulging in two...
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It’s time for better schools: NEMESIS partners meet in Sheffield
In June 2019 the pilot schools, along with the rest of the partners involved in NEMESIS, met in Sheffield (UK) to put in common the experience with those pilots schools that have been implementing...
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NEMESIS participation in the Scenario Workshop on the Future of Social...
On 10th July 2019, a future policy scenario workshop was organized in the premises of the European Commission, DG for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (EAC). The aim of this workshop was to...
View ArticlePedagogies for active citizenship: flavours, strategies and tensions
“Our education systems and schools need to prepare young people to become active, participative and responsible individuals: the complex, multicultural and rapidly evolving societies we live in cannot...
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NEMESIS in the 7EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise
In 24-27 June 2019, the NEMESIS team participated in the 7EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise which is one of the world’s central meeting places for all researchers that are...
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Teachers’ Training Event in Thessaloniki
Some days before the official start of the academic year 2019 -2020, the NEMESIS team organized a teacher’s training workshop in the premises of the 9th high school of Kalamaria in Thessaloniki,...
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NEMESIS participation in Youth activism, engagement and the development of...
When: 25/06/2019 – 28/06/19 Where: Budapest, HUNGARY Our partner Valnalón attended the final event of the Leverhulme Trust International Network project on Youth Activism. This 3-year project...
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