Project journal

Project

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed) Birmingham, United Kingdom

Topic

Urban poverty

Edit 06 December 2017

by Nils Scheffler, UIA Expert

USE-IT! Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Birmingham is doing on urban poverty in this UIA Expert journal.

It’s been a year since the USE-IT! project has started its implementation and many activities have been carried out. The project has begun to produce knowledge stemming from implementation of its innovative solution. Innovative projects such as this one will come across challenges that will put to the test its implementation. UIA Expert, Nils Scheffler describes in the project’s first journal what has happened since its initiation. Get to know better what Birmingham is doing on urban poverty in this UIA Expert journal.

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24/Feb/2021

USE-IT! Journal 6: Lessons Learnt and Recommendations

In his 6th and final journal, UIA Expert Nils Scheffler “focuses on presenting the lessons learned and recommendations from the 3-year long project, (...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

Urban poverty

29/Apr/2020

Birmingham Zoom-in 3: Community research for a community-oriented urban regeneration

UIA Expert Nils Scheffler explores how “USE-IT! has set up a free accredited community research training programme to train interested local people do...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

02/Mar/2020

USE-IT! Journal 5: The project is coming to an end

Take a look at the latest developments!...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

21/Jun/2019

USE-IT! Journal 4: The project in its final year

Interim results, lessons learnt and further actions needed....

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

11/Mar/2019

USE-IT! Zoom-In 2: Jobs for overseas migrants

UIA Expert Nils Scheffler shares the project’s insights on how to qualify 180 local overseas migrants to become employees for the British health syste...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

20/Feb/2019

USE-IT! gets national attention!

The USE-IT! project was the focus of an article in The Guardian last week. Read in the article how SWBH NHS Trust is now running its own programme thr...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

11/Dec/2018

USE-IT! UIA Expert Journal – Progress continues on linking capital investments in deprived neighbourhoods with local communities

Third journal tells us how this complex project is being delivered and how it’s facing its challenges...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

02/Oct/2018

Promoting Social Enterprise within the Built Environment

Through our work on the place-based USE IT project, iSE was delighted to facilitate a marketplace to bring together leading built environment provider...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

02/Sep/2018

USE-IT! Zoom-In: Creation of social enterprises

In this first Zoom-In, the UIA Expert Nils Scheffler looked at one key element of the USE-IT! Project: the creation of a community of social enterpris...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

18/Jun/2018

City Drive announces Birmingham as a Social Enterprise City

Last month, USE IT! proudly supported the iSE facilitated CITY DRIVE week long programme of events to raise awareness, promote employment opportunitie...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

04/May/2018

Implementing the USE-IT project in Birmingham: Find out in the second UIA Expert Journal what activities have been carried out

UIA Expert Nils Scheffler has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Birmin...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

11/Apr/2018

Feeding our community

The project partners Co-operative Futures, along with iSE and Smethwick CAN, hosted an open workshop to talk about food within our local communities. ...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

02/Feb/2018

Social entrepreneurs and USE IT! catalysing social change in Birmingham

The Social Enterprise support offered through USE IT! in the last 12 months focused on growing the social enterprise sector, linking local organisatio...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

24/Apr/2017

Seeing community as an asset not a problem - the USE-IT! journey begins

Our project is built around the idea of linking macro assets with micro assets in the community. And as enigmatic as it sounds, it actually is very si...

USE-IT! - Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together (Closed)

Urban poverty

Birmingham - United Kingdom

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USE-IT! Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Other news from this project

USE-IT! Journal 6: Lessons Learnt and Recommendations

Birmingham Zoom-in 3: Community research for a community-oriented urban regeneration

USE-IT! Journal 5: The project is coming to an end

USE-IT! Journal 4: The project in its final year