| Abstract | Koncept socijalnih inovacija dio je riječnika socijalne politike, posebice tematiziran kombiniranom socijalnom politikom. Socijalne inovacije se smatraju dvostruko inovativnima: u svojim sredstvima i u svojim ciljevima. Mogu se razviti kao novi odnos ili suradnja, business model, unaprijeĎeni način djelovanja ili poboljšani proces unutar organizacije ili konačno kao nova usluga ili proizvod, što je više svojstveno socijalnom poduzetništvu, srodnom pojmu. Caritas je ustanova Katoličke crkve koja ţeli u svijetu djelovati kao djelotvorna ljubav, biti bliza svim potrebita, a ponajviše čovjeku kao takvome. Osim što ublaţava socijalne rizike, ponajviše stare, a dijelom i nove, ima zagovaračku komponentu teţnje za promjenom.
Kvalitativno istraţivanje provedeno za potrebe ovog rada, za cilj je imalo povezati koncept socijalnih inovacija i ustanove Caritasa. Provedeno je na predstavnicima Caritasa različitih organizacijskih razina po cijeloj Hrvatskoj. Pokazalo je da postoji nekolicina primjera već upotrebljenih socijalnih inovacija u njihovom djelovanju, ali i djelomično nepoznavanje srţi terminologije koju u cijelosti obuhvaća. Istraţivanje je pokazalo ţelju, bez odstupajućih mišljenja, kod svih dionika, za inovativno djelovanje u budućnosti. Trenutne najveće prepreke na tom putu su nedostatak stabilnog financiranja, koordinacijske podrške te volontera. Ujedno je to i najveći potencijal za napredak, na kojem je potrebno već sada predano raditi. |
| Abstract (english) | The concept of social innovation is part of social policy, especially themed by combined social policy. Social innovations are doubly innovative: in their means and in their goals. They can develop as new relationships or collaborations, a business model, an developed way of working or improve a process within an organization. Finally , it can be reached as a new service or product, which is more inherent in social entrepreneurship, a related concept. Caritas is an institution of the Catholic Church which acts in the world as the workable love, which tries to be close to all those in need, especially to man as such. It‟s mission is to work on the elimination of social risks, mostly those clasified as old, but, nowdays, much more on new ones, too. Caritas also has an advocacy component in it‟s work ethics.
Qualitative research, made for the purposes of this paper, has proven the connection of the concept of social innovation and the Caritas institution. It was conducted at Caritas representatives of various organizational levels throughout Croatia. It turned out that there are several examples of already applied social innovations in their work,. It also showed that concept is partly unknown to the steakholders , in the core of it‟s terminology. The research showed the desire, without significant differing opinions, among all stakeholders, for innovative action in the future. Currently, the biggest obstacles on this path are present lack of stable funding, coordination support and volunteers. It is also the greatest potential for the progress, on which needs to be worked on right now. |
