Welcome to the New Solutions Social Innovation Hub
New Solutions is Ireland’s one-stop hub for advancing social innovation.
Our mission is to strengthen the social innovation ecosystem by fostering active inclusion, promoting equal opportunities, ensuring non-discrimination, and supporting active participation and employability, particularly for disadvantaged groups. This includes support through the social enterprise business model.
Our Objectives
Build the Ecosystem
Promote awareness of social innovation and maximise synergies with key public policies in social inclusion, social enterprise, and community-led local development.
Strengthen Capacity
Provide capacity-building supports for social innovation initiatives at national, regional, local, and community levels.
Fund
Innovation
Support pilot programmes tackling significant social and environmental challenges through targeted funding.
Enable
Growth
Create an environment where social innovation can thrive, helping impactful ideas grow and scale sustainably.
Next steps
New Solutions launched in September 2025.
We’re now working on building Ireland’s online Social Innovation Hub.
Stay tuned for updates in the months ahead!