Category: Fully inclusive cities

Bank of innovations, Fully inclusive cities, Immigration, Lab, Link with the community, New service, New technological tool, Process simplification, Self-management and participation, User empowerment

Banc d’innovacions

By My Side, an app that offers support to drug-dependent women

Cut All Ties, a digital project for the reduction of male violence in adolescents and young people

SällBo, intergenerational and multicultural housing to combat loneliness

Mixed Living, residents who live with and collaborate with highly vulnerable people

RefAid, an app for refugees arriving in Europe

admin on 17 July 2018

Application aimed at migrants and refugees arriving in Europe every day so they can identify the services they can access

RefAid is a mobile application that shows migrants, refugees, and accompanying social workers which nearby services they can access, on a map with a simple interface.

The platform ensures that the information and location of the users is completely confidential, it is not stored, and it is not shared with any authority or police force.

The organizations that appear on the map are trustworthy and verified. The search includes filters for themes such as food, shelter, bathrooms, and information.

Characteristics of innovation

Location

United States

Partners / Funders:

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Genesis

RefAid was created in September 2015 by entrepreneur Shelley Taylor, after seeing the shocking image of the body of a three-year-old Syrian child drowned on the coast of Ali Hoca Buruna (Turkey). In this context, Taylor developed the application in just one weekend.

Implementation level

RefAid is being used in 50 countries by 8,000 non-profit organizations, aid organizations, and governmental entities. A large number of leading organizations in the care of migrants and refugees use the application. For example, Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, Caritas, and the Red Cross.

Bank of innovations, Fully inclusive cities, Group intervention, Innovative organization, Lab, Personalization of the service, Poverty and exclusion, Prediction and prevention, User empowerment

Banc d’innovacions

By My Side, an app that offers support to drug-dependent women

Cut All Ties, a digital project for the reduction of male violence in adolescents and young people

SällBo, intergenerational and multicultural housing to combat loneliness

Mixed Living, residents who live with and collaborate with highly vulnerable people

Fuel Poverty Group, defending the right to energy

admin on 17 July 2018

Network of individuals and entities from different fields to combat energy poverty

Fuel Poverty Group promotes tools to reduce the amount of the gas and electricity bill by understanding the concepts that appear on the bill, as well as practical advice in daily life to make rational and efficient use of energy.

On the other hand, they also organize preventive and empowerment actions such as workshops, personalized information points, assistance in procedures, and interventions to defend energy rights.

A person is in a situation of energy poverty when they have difficulty paying for electricity, water, or gas supplies, or when they are unable to afford the economic cost of maintaining adequate temperature and humidity conditions in their home. According to the organization, this poverty has effects and consequences on the health, economy, and well-being of people who are in situations of greater social vulnerability.

Characteristics of innovation

Location

Barcelona and Madrid

Partners / Funders

Government of Catalonia, Barcelona Provincial Council, Barcelona City Council, Montemadrid Foundation, and Bankia

Genesis

The Welfare and Development Association (ABD) was founded in the 1980s and is a non-governmental organization declared of public utility. Its services and programs respond to situations that generate vulnerability and social exclusion.

Ecoserveis is a non-profit entity that works on the relationships between energy and society to promote a fair and sustainable energy model.

Fuel Poverty Group is born from the union of these two organizations.

Implementation level

In Catalonia, it is estimated that at least 10% of people suffer from energy poverty. Energia Justa provides a response to this problem.

Bank of innovations, Aging, Fully inclusive cities, Information and planning, Lab, Link with the community, New service, New technological tool, Prediction and prevention, Proximity care, Self-management and participation

Banc d’innovacions

By My Side, an app that offers support to drug-dependent women

Cut All Ties, a digital project for the reduction of male violence in adolescents and young people

SällBo, intergenerational and multicultural housing to combat loneliness

Mixed Living, residents who live with and collaborate with highly vulnerable people

Radars, risk situation prevention network for the elderly

admin on 16 July 2018

Network of prevention and community action aimed at reducing the risk of isolation and social exclusion of elderly people

The Radars project helps to detect, assess, and monitor the situation of elderly people. In this way, it enables elderly individuals living alone to continue in their homes with the support of their surroundings.

Neighborhood and commercial radars are individuals who, with a respectful approach, offer support and communicate risk situations to professional services.

The project combines the active role of Social Services with the shared responsibility of neighborhood entities and services. All of this is based on a community approach that allows the development of shared processes for the detection and connection of elderly people to the community network in their neighborhood.

Characteristics of innovation

Location

Barcelona, Catalonia

Partners / Funders

Municipal Institute of Social Services of Barcelona (Barcelona City Council)

Genesis

The Radars project was born in 2008 in the Camp d’en Grassot neighborhood (Gràcia). Faced with the detection, by Social Services, of cases of elderly people living alone or with limited support networks, it was decided to carry out a diagnosis of the situation and needs of this group.

Implementation level

The initiative began to be implemented citywide in 2012, specifically in 15 neighborhoods, and by 2017 it had expanded to 35. In 2022, it was introduced in the Barceloneta and Parc Vila Olímpica areas. Currently, there are inquiries to transfer it to other locations in Catalonia and Spain. The practice has had an impact on the target group, the territorial environment, and the functioning of the responsible organization.