Social Innovation: Shine Festival
It can be hard for young women to navigate a world where issues such as low self-esteem, violence against women and equal representation remain major issues. To help girls and young women find their place, and to educate, empower and inspire them, The Shona Project organized the Shine Festival. They brought together 100 of Ireland’s most inspirational women, all of whom had stories to tell and advice to share. Read the whole story below.
This story is part of the EU-funded project FUSION – Festivals as Social Innovation Incubators. In FUSION, experts on festivals and youth work have joined forces to create a tailored suite of resources, so that festivals can realize their potential as platforms for social innovation. These include a good-practice guide with social innovation projects at European festivals, a how-to toolbox for developing projects specifically for festivals, and alliances between festivals and social innovation organizations. FUSION will enable young people/organizations to use festivals as a steppingstone to implement their own ideas, products and technologies for the benefit of society.
