Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
- Social innovation advances the EU Mission societal and environmental transition objectives;
- The EU Missions embrace the potential of social innovation as means of achieving their objectives;
- Social innovators and social entrepreneurs and funders of social innovation benefit from moderated learning and experience sharing and liaise better with projects and support activities in the EU Missions environment;
- The project establishes the foundation for a networked fund targeting the scaling up of existing, demonstrably successful social innovations to advance the EU Missions.
This coordination and support action serves the EU Missions by
- supporting the recognition of social innovation in the EU Missions;
- identifying social innovations with the potential to advance the EU Missions;
- identifying the social innovators and entrepreneurs to carry out the upscaling;
- setting up a network and build the capacity of social innovators and entrepreneurs, and impact investors to advance the EU Missions by scaling up social innovations;
- establishing a community of practice;
- providing an interface between the EU Missions and the network to match the demand for and supply of social innovation solutions as well as social innovation investment;
- enabling social innovators and social entrepreneurs to navigate the complex challenges of scaling up across complex public systems and markets
