About Course

• 3 Years
• Full-time  

• The three-year course in “Social Innovation Design” is aimed at creating a new generation of creative leaders able to understand and manage the increasing social challenges of our era.  In recent years, investments in new models aimed at accelerating innovation and private and institutional funding in the social field and third sector have created the need for a growing number of professionals able to operate successfully in these contexts.

  Students will acquire useful skills in order to activate and manage innovation and change processes based on the intersection of design, social innovation, and management. Through the study of the evolution of social sciences, they’ll develop critical thinking necessary to identify, analyze and tackle current social challenges, pinpointing the actors to be involved in the change process.

  Within this approach, design act as the necessary tool in order to devise strategies aimed at generating and coordinating innovation within public entities, companies, third sector and individuals for the shared solution of social, economic and environmental challenges. The course is also characterized by lessons aimed at building the foundations of culture and analysis of social and economic processes and of the functioning models of companies and organizations.

  The acquisition of contemporary tools for economic analysis and business management is essential for the effective implementation and management of innovative processes. The course combines theoretical and conceptual lessons with application disciplines developed through exercises and innovative projects carried out in collaboration with national and international partners.