Local Innovation & Global Social Change – Connecting Öresund Ideas to International Development Expertise

Workshop Invitation

Ørecomm – Centre for Communication and Glocal Change – invites local start-ups, social enterprises, organisations and decision makers in the Öresund region to discuss their ideas with global communication and development researchers.

The goal of the new GoComm project is to create a cross-border space for mutual learning, exchange and advice. GoComm looks beyond traditional development cooperation models and emerging markets and link academia to innovative ideas from the public and private sphere, including (social) entrepreneurs, start-up companies, volunteer efforts and new hybrid models of global engagement. By harnessing innovative new ideas, proven best practice and expertise from different sectors, GoComm aims at doing good well, translating initial networking into longer-term reflective interactions.

GoComm’s inaugural workshop will take place at Malmö University on 24 April 2014.

We would like to see you there!

→ Programme

What can you Expect from us?

• Research based advice on communication and development work
• Global networking opportunities – with partners on all five continents
• Experience in establishing global partnerships
• A decade long experience in global higher education teaching and training

Who Should Participate?

Start-ups, social enterprises, organisations and decision makers with an interest in:

• How local ideas can create positive sustainable global change
• How communication for development can support such initiatives
• New forms of engagement outside the established frameworks of global co-operation
• Sharing their best practices, strategies and experiences

About Gocomm

GoComm looks beyond traditional development cooperation models and emerging markets and link academia to innovative ideas from the public and private sphere. By harnessing innovative new ideas, proven best practice and expertise from different sectors, GoComm aims at doing good well, translating initial networking into longer-term reflective interactions.

Reflecting new modalities of cooperation that challenge traditional dichotomies of ‘aid’ or ‘trade’, the Örecomm-GoComm project brings together the global expertise of the two partner universities in the Öresund region to connect with local enterprises, organisations and initiatives on innovative international development ideas, concepts or projects.

Since 2008 Malmö University and Roskilde University have started to cooperate closely in their jointly managed Ørecomm – Centre for Communication and Glocal Change. Funded by EU’s Interreg IV A programme, the GoComm project is the emerging interface between local and global dimensions. It will focus on bringing global expertise and local Danish and Swedish development initiatives into contact, to ensure knowledge sharing as well as creating a critical and constructive European hub for dialogue.

www.orecomm.net/activities/gocomm/

About Ørecomm

Ørecomm is a collaboration between Malmö University and Roskilde University, dedicated to research in the Communication for Development field. Researchers connected to Ørecomm are active in international research, teaching and advisory projects around the world. Current partners include UN organizations, NGO’s and universities on all five continents.

www.orecomm.net

How to Register

→ Register here no later than 21 April.

Maximum number of participants: 25

When and Where?

• 24 April 2014, 10 am–15.30 pm
• Malmö University, MEDEA, Östra Varvsgatan 11 A

Questions?

Project Manager brobeck@ruc.dk / marie.brobeck@mah.se Roskilde University / Malmö University + 45 4674 3318 / + 46 40 665 7239

Academic Advisor tobias.denskus@mah.se School of Arts and Communication (K3) Malmö University +46 40 6657 365 Personal website @aidnography

Welcome!