What is Innob

Founded in 2023, Innob is a research-driven entity dedicated to understanding and enhancing social dynamics across Europe and beyond. Innob works as a cluster for academia, companies, NGOs/CSOs, practitioners, policymakers, and other stakeholders while playing a pivotal role in formulating evidence-based policies and delivering high-quality social research and analysis.

Through its interdisciplinary approach, it provides comprehensive social research, by applying innovative methods and approaches. Innob stands as a networking ecosystem, and a facilitator in project management, connecting diverse organisations, and fostering collaboration opportunities.

Based on its extensive network and expertise, Innob ensures highly professional projects’ preparation, coordination and execution from concept idea inception to completion. Focusing on efficiency and collaboration, Innob aims to secure funds and resources for ambitious projects through exemplary management competencies and the establishment of strategic collaboration and partnerships.

Why Innob

We focus on innovation-driven solutions, always caring about our projects’ societal outcomes. We offer stakeholders access, networking and collaboration opportunities to a vast network across Europe and beyond, while also providing guidance, resources, and support for innovative ideas to come true. Innob targets outputs and results that are measurable and evidence-based, with an eye to long-term vision and sustainability. In Innob, we care about including diversity and inclusion in our projects, while continuous learning and the enhancement of knowledge are always at the top of our priorities.

How we make it happen

Innob is unique, as we place an emphasis on the social impact of our results, being a part of societal and political transformations, while seeking to understand the relationships, effects, and interdependencies among social, political and economic domains among others:

How do cultural norms and values influence social opinion, behavioral change and societal and political structures?
In what ways can educational opportunities promote better citizen participation and engagement in political life and policy-making processes?
How do social networks and other online communication platforms affect individuals' and community’s perceptions of political, social, cultural and economic matters?
How does the representation of marginalised groups in online and offline media impact societal perceptions and stereotypes in everyday life?
What is the impact of urbanisation on a community’s sociocultural and political structures?
How does political representation influence policy outcomes related to minorities, and disempowered/disengaged groups?
In what ways do electoral systems impact political party dynamics and policy decision-making?
How do media freedom and transparency affect local, regional and national democratic practices and government accountability?
What are the ethical, socio-economic and socio-cultural implications of automation and technological advancements on the workforce and entrepreneurship?
How do the social, cultural, and economic criteria (socioeconomic status, education, origin, religion, race, gender etc.) of individuals influence their political participation and representation?
What are the social, political, and economic implications of global phenomena like climate change, migration, pandemic emergence and others?