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About UpSocial
UpSocial launched in Barcelona in 2010 under the leadership of Miquel de Paladella. Together, our obsession is to provide systemic, scalable solutions to social challenges. UpSocial’s work is based on understanding how changes happen, how they are activated and accelerated, and how they transcend a particular project or organization and become systemic. Visit the home site here.
We contribute to solving social challenges through finding and adapting innovations oriented to scale their impact.
What change do we need?
Social challenges are increasingly complex and require the commitment and participation of multiple actors with capacities to generate lasting change. To significantly improve people’s lives, we need more effective, efficient and sustainable answers that are able to secure significant reach in accordance with the problem’s dimension.
What do we propose?
Our proposal involves strengthening all agents of change. Against complex challenges and changing contexts, the capacities of each actor is key to drive innovative and scalable solutions.
Our work is organized around five lines of action:
Innovations
We articulate processes driven by the demand of solutions to concrete challenges, through our own methodology which accompanies agents of change in the adaptation and adoption of innovative solutions.
Capacity building
We accompany agents of change throughout their practice of addressing social demands with impact that is sustained over time, in a process that is oriented to build capacities and improve their skills to innovate.
Scaling
We take the lead to scale solutions with differential value and transformative potential. We also accompany processes of adaptation and implementation of innovations with impact evidence.
Policies
We enhance and support initiatives to contribute to a legal and regulatory framework that enables social innovation.
Learnings
We systematize and openly share knowledge generated through practice. We also promote cultural change that favors innovation in organizations and community.