Training of Social Management Specialists for Participation in Social Innovation Teams

The main purpose of the research is to describe the elements of specialists' personality development by incorporating it into social innovations team. The main assumption is that encouragement of self-inclusion, volunteering, and active implementation in educational group sessions are significant factors for the professional progress of the specialist. The contingent of the research is students in Department of Social and Legal sciences in Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria. The students were involved through interviewing, monitoring and evaluation of the performance of activities of the social work during the education program. The main findings refer to the extended functions of the social worker in early intervention, individual mobile assistance, community-based social services, home-based counseling and mobile social activities.