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Inspired by: FP7 » Social Innovation – The Urganda Rural Development and Training Programme

version: 1 / created: 2010-08-09
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Originally submitted by: Vanessa Watkins
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Source of inspiration

European Commission Framework Programme for RTD (FP7)

Theme/activity of inspiration

Theme 8 - Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities

Sub-theme/area of inspiration

Blue Sky Research on emerging issues and other research economies

Optional reference/s to FP7 project/s

Use the following format: Project Acronym (Project Reference No.). Use commas if more than one project is associated to this Wild Card, for example: ALFA-BIRD (213266), SAFAR (213374), LAPCAT-II (211485)
Source: INFU (225229) - http://www.innovation-futures.org/ http://outsideinnovation.blogs.com/pseybold/2007/03/kagadiboom_town.html

Signal's headline

(max. 9 words)
Social Innovation – The Urganda Rural Development and Training Programme

Signal's description

(approx. 150 words)
Please describe the Weak Signal (approx. 150 words)
The Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme is a non-profit organization that provides education and training for rural development in the very poor and diverse Kibaale District of Uganda. URDTP is seen as a benchmark project for successful social innovation. The starting point for the project was a three-day vision co-design workshop with community members in 1987, defining individual and collective visions and discussing how they could become reality. Today the rural village has become a "boom town," growing tenfold in size. It has a girls´ school, a vocational training institute, a community radio station, a microcredit fund and village extension programmes. What is distinctive about the URDTP educational programs is that everyone learns the creative process--how to create a vision, contrast it with your current reality and take action to achieve your vision (in short, how to innovate!). This creative orientation is amplified through the students with “back home” projects with their families (building latrines, raising new crops, building new homes). Additionally all students learn both traditional subjects as well as practical subjects (solar energy, biogas production, charcoal cooling, construction, entrepreneurship etc.)

Keywords

social innovation, uganda, rural development, vision, education, creativity

Signal's first apperance

before 2000

Signal's potential evolution

It could lead to...
issue type of issue/development potential impact on society timeframe for the issue to become at least 50% probable
#1 Change in current social innovation patterns discontinuation
 		very beneficial
 		now-2025

Importance

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Level 2: important for a particular world region Developing World, rural regions
Level 4: important for the whole world

Key driving forces of this signal

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Driver 1 Driver 2
Social The working premises of the URDT are simultaneously the social drivers for a further spread of the signal. People are the key to their own development. With a common vision they can transcend traditional barriers and prejudice caused by tribal, religious, political and gender differences and work together to achieve them.
Economic Because of the great success of the “innovation” programme in this rural, under-served district and the existence of many other regions that are characterised by similar aspects, the model might serve as a model case for other regions with similar circumstances.

Major risks & opportunities associated to the signal

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Risks Opportunities
before 2015 The effects of cultural aspects are hard to consider in advance. They might make it difficult to transfer the concept to other cultural areas. Visioning and creative workshops as a starting point for social innovation processes could find a wider acceptance also in Europe. The concept could be transferred e.g. to shrinking regions in Eastern Europe or East Germany triggering a hype for foresight methods in innovation processes.

Signal's relevance for European Grand Challenges

where? please justify:
particularly relevant Europe world
Behavioural change
Governance and trust in democracy
Social cohesion and diversity
Economic prosperity/dynamics

Signal's relevance for thematic research areas

please justify:
particularly relevant
Health
Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Energy
Environment (including Climate Change)
Transport (including aeronautics)
Social Sciences and Humanities
Regional development
Research for the benefit of small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Pan-European strategies influencing the signal

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Facilitating and promoting knowledge sharing and transfer

Research-friendly strategies potentially improving understanding of the signal

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particularly relevant
Strengthening the actors in the research-friendly ecology
(i.e. Research funding organisations, universities, businesses, Research and Technology Organisations, Researchers and Citizens)