The field of social innovation is developing rapidly but the ability of Europe to coordinate and galvanise activities across EU Member States is limited by the lack of the systematic and sophisticated infrastructures of support. The TEPSIE research programme is aimed at developing tools, methods and policies to help inform the EU strategy for social innovation. Its purpose is to strengthen the foundations for other researchers, policy-makers and practitioners so that they can analyse and plan with greater confidence.

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The Global Innovation Academy (the Academy) is a new type of learning initiative developed by the Young Foundation in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, NESTA, and others to skill people involved in public and social innovation globally, drawing on a shared body of knowledge about methods, evidence; a shared curriculum; and a shared faculty of leading practitioners from across the globe.