The New Normal - re-inventing regional development

The fourth in the series of Osiris webinars will be live streamed on the Osiris YouTube channel on September 9 at 10:00 CET.

This webinar is brought to you by the lead partner Region Västerbotten in Sweden and partners Åbo Akademi University/Experience Lab and the Regional Council of Ostrobotnia in Finland. Results from an evaluation of the open social innovation activities in the shadow of COVID-19 carried out by Experience Lab at Åbo Akademi University will be presented.

During this webinar, we will draw conclusions, share personal experiences and even be a bit philosophical. We will also give you examples how a region tackled their development process during the pandemic and look to the future.

In short - what is the new normal when it comes to open social innovation for regional development?

Programme

10:00 Welcome

Moderator Yvonne Backholm-Nyberg, Åbo Akademi University/Experience Lab

10:05    The New Normal?

Lars Wallrup, Region Västerbotten

10:15 Experiences of online co-creation – the collected voices of project teams and stakeholders

Kimmo Rautanen, Åbo Akademi/Experience Lab 

10:30 Tackling regional co-creation during the pandemic - what did we learn to take with us for the future?

Johanna Dahl, Regional Council of Ostrobothnia

10:45 Concluding the Open Social Innovation path of OSIRIS throughout the pandemic

Umberto Pernice, consultant to Region Västerbotten

11:00 Closing of the webinar