School of Social Innovation

The P2PU School of Social Innovation (SoSI) was founded in 2009 as a global community of social innovators who are strengthening ourselves, our communities, and our field through peer learning.

Since 2009, we have been organizing free, open, peer-to-peer courses which are proposed, designed, and run by ourselves. SoSI courses are run in small, self-directed teams who meet face-to-face but are connected globally, sharing and adapting learning resources and plans within our common topics.

Everyone who participates in a P2PU course contributes something to the process, whether helping prepare activities, facilitate discussions, organize meetings, or many other possibilities.

Start a Course
Any group of three or more people can create and run a SoSI course. You will get plenty of help from our community when you do.  Join SoSI today by creating or cloning a course or participating in or following one.

Once you create a course, let us know you want to be part of SoSI by sending Alan, one of our organizers, a message.

You can create a variety of different types of learning groups, including:

• A Course - The organizer(s) alone approves course members and creates and edits the tasks and structure of the course. Example: a global, virtual course on marketing tools for social enterprises, taught by a leading expert in the field.
• A Study Group - All participants are both learners and contributors. All participants can edit the course tasks. Example: a collaborative global team shares local open government best practices across several countries.
• A Citizen Circle - a special type of Study Group that SoSI groups use when they want to meet face-to-face and take on specific topics or challenges as a team in their local community. Citizen Circles provide the opportunity for participants to work on projects and skills which are often best taken on in person. Example: A group wants to improve their conflict transformation skills by working with communities in a neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
• Any other format - such as Affinity Groups, Communities of Practice, virtual research teams, or more.

Join the Effort to organize the largest courses on Social innovation Ever
In 2012 SoSI is organizing courses designed to be run by an unlimited number teams, in person, all around the world.

Large-scale courses are tied together by a common backbone of guest speakers, challenges, and a menu of open-source resources, activities, and possible outlines for teams to follow. Local teams are mostly self-organizing, adapting and building on the common resources according to their unique needs, and collaborating with other teams globally in organic ways they propose and organize themselves. Local hosts- anchor organizations in specific geographic locations, like Hubs and Universities- help bring together many local teams in specific areas.

Large-scale courses are organized by organizing teams that include experienced advisors from the P2PU and global social innovation education community, advisors and resource authors with deep subject-matter experience, and, of course, the course participants themselves.

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We always love to hear your questions or ideas for working together and improving SoSI!

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