National Competence Centres Mutual Learning Event ‘Social Innovation Portfolios in Practice: Building Advocacy for Systemic Change’

We are pleased to invite you to the National Competence Centres Working Group (NCC WG) under the CoP on Social Innovation onsite event ‘Social Innovation Portfolios in Practice: Building Advocacy for Systemic Change‘, which will take place on 4-5 May in Madrid, Spain.

The event will focus on how National Competence Centres (NCCs) can design, manage, and facilitate mission-driven portfolios of social innovation, and how knowledge generated through experimentation can be translated into public policies and advocacy strategies.

The study visit will provide an opportunity to learn from the Spanish experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating a large-scale portfolio of experimentation aimed at incorporating a community perspective into the current care system. This experience has also supported a strong advocacy approach, positioning the Spanish NCC as a strategic collaboration between government ministries, national public agencies, and the wider social innovation community.

Through presentations, discussions, and meetings with local initiatives in Madrid, participants will explore how portfolio approaches can generate collective learning, strengthen policy dialogue, and contribute to more systemic solutions. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on which learnings are relevant to their own context and how a peer learning process can be activated to accelerate their current efforts.