International Social Innovation Research Conference 2021 (ISIRC)
Milan, 8-10 September 2021

About ISIRC

The International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) is the world’s leading interdisciplinary social innovation research conference.

It will be held from the 8th to the 10th of September 2021, for the first time in Milan, Italy.

This year’s theme is: “Enabling the change! Social innovation and enterprises for a better future”.
By aligning with the leading impactful research being undertaken in the recent years, it focuses on how we may move towards fair and sustainable societies through social innovation and social entrepreneurial initiatives.

About the Organisers

In 2021, the ISIRC conference will be hosted by the largest private university in Europe, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), alongwith its Graduate School ALTIS, founded in 2005 with a strong focus on CSR and sustainability, and E4Impact Foundation, which has been supporting African entrepreneurs by imparting knowledge and competences on impact entrepreneurship since 2010.

In the past years, a number of prestigious institutions have organised the conference, among which Sheffield University, in 2020; the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University, in 2019; Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg in 2018; Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, in 2017.