As part of the institutional empowerment process, a pioneer peer learning programme on the social innovation and entrepreneurship life cycle was launched, with the aim of getting to know in loco successful projects featuring different stages of the region’s social innovation and entrepreneurship life cycle.

Class of AMP’S municipalities’ interlocutors

The Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Roadmap introduced five Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives to interlocutors from the 16 municipalities in the Porto Metropolitan Area:

• ColorADD, colour identification system for the colour blind, considered as one of the 40 innovations that will change the world.

  
  

• Revista Cais (Cais Magazine), a project well known for the sale of a magazine in some cities in Portugal by long term unemployed people, created by the Cais association, inspired by the English magazine Big Issue.

  
  

• Cais Recicla (Recycling Cais), a project also by the Cais association, of ecodesign and promotion of employability skills, which turns industrial waste into very attractive products, such as necklaces, rings, pencils or notebooks, with the help of designers, creating job opportunities for long-term unemployed people.

  
  

• Project "Dar Sentido à Vida” (Giving Meaning to Life) by the SAOM association, which turns people at risk of social exclusion into high-level professionals in the catering industry, providing 4 and 5-star catering services;

  
  

• Vintage for a Cause, a very recent initiative, which is fighting the isolation of women over 50 years old through a sewing club that transforms vintage clothes, counting with the creative help of stylists.

See the photos of the sessions.

Class of AMP’S municipalities’ social networks interlocutors

The Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Roadmap enabled the interlocutors of the Social Networks of the AMP’s 16 municipalities to get to know four Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship initiatives:

• Revista Cais (Cais Magazine), a project well known for the sale of a magazine in some cities in Portugal by long term unemployed people, created by the Cais association, inspired by the English magazine Big Issue.

  
  

• Cais Recicla (Recycling Cais), a project also by the Cais association, of ecodesign and promotion of employability skills, which turns industrial waste into very attractive products, such as necklaces, rings, pencils or notebooks, with the help of designers, creating job opportunities for long-term unemployed people.

  
  

• Mundo a Sorrir (Smiling World), an association of Portuguese charitable dentists, created in July 2005 to get health work done, namely oral health, promoting the well-being of disadvantaged, excluded and marginalised communities.

  
  

• Arrebita!Porto (Raise, Porto), an innovative project of repopulation and dynamization of the city through the rehabilitation of vacant buildings without any cost, supported by the joint effort of architecture and engineering international students (engaged in a kind of "hands-on Erasmus"), companies (supplying construction materials) and public entities (taking care of logistics, such as students' accommodation).

See the photos of the sessions.