XUL Foundation is a branch of the communication for social change agency XUL. XUL Foundation was created in 2007 and aims to develop actions of communication for social change and drive social transformation processes that promote environmental and social sustainability, contributing to the collective and participatory construction of a plural, just society, and solidarity.
Our activities are based on communication methods that favour new models of partnerships and relationships. Promoting networking and the power of synergies, equal opportunity with respect to gender, race, status and identity, as well as the cultural and environmental values of different communities is a common thread running through everything we do.
At XUL Foundation, we apply social innovation to the issues that matter to us: public governance and citizen cooperation, the construction of a sustainable city, and the improvement of living conditions for the most disadvantaged groups in our society.
We can provide knowledge, diagnostic capability, design, and process dynamisation, communication, sensitization, awareness-raising, and mobilization for the development of projects at a local level or with a European dimension.
XUL Foundation, in its efforts to build networks, is an active part of the European network All Digital, the Andalusian Anti-Rumours Network, the living lab Córdoba Social Lab, the Ashoka Venture Board Sevilla of the social entrepreneurship network Ashoka and the Andalusian Fund of Municipalities for International Solidarity.
XUL Foundation staff and collaborators have a solid background in high social innovation and communication for social change.
FIELDS OF ACTION
Living Labs
Living labs are also an opportunity to create collaborative networks between different places with similar problems so that the knowledge, tools and projects developed in one place can be used to face the challenges that arise in others.
At XUL Foundation we are experts in developing and applying the methodology of living labs through the implementation of the necessary steps for its design and start-up.
Communication for Social Change
The XUL Foundation is dedicated to communication for social change, referred to as communication for sustainable social change and development that places people in the center of the communication process.
In the XUL Foundation we approach communication for social change in two aspects. First of all, projects for social intervention where communication, in its broadest sense, is the field of work itself. Secondly, we undertake communication and dissemination tasks in transnational European projects.
Citizenship promotion
XUL Foundation promotes and participates in training activities, research and collective generation of knowledge from dialogic learning for building citizenship.
XUL Foundation is active in different projects that aim to facilitate dialogue and co-creation between different stakeholders, the testing of tools and knowledge for action in the social field for processes of awareness, and mobilization to foster citizen participation and the promotion of change in groups and communities.
Social innovation
XUL Foundation supports, promotes, encourages and participates in social innovation projects for the development and application of alternative and effective solutions to social and environmental challenges.
Social innovation responds to the challenges of social inequalities and is an alternative to traditional models of social protection. XUL Foundation is, on the one hand, committed to direct intervention, applying innovative methodologies and tools to specific social problems.
Social Innovation
Social innovation responds to the challenges of social inequalities and is an alternative to traditional models of social protection. XUL Foundation is, on the one hand, committed to direct intervention, applying innovative methodologies and tools to specific social problems.
However, it also advocates indirect intervention being a key stakeholder in training, the generation of know-how and knowledge, as well as in the articulation of key agents in the field of social innovation, allowing the application of innovative intervention models and thus targeting a greater number of beneficiaries.
XUL Foundation promotes and collaborates in projects that combine social intervention and new technologies acting in relation to the user experience, UX, developing initiatives and tools for communication and mobilization of public users.