Seed2Scale

Duration: 2024 – 2027
Funded by: EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI)
Coordinator: Comune Di Torino
Reference: ESF-SI-2023-NCC-01-0003
Start Date:  10/06/2024 End Date: 10/06/2027 
The SEED2SCALE project aims to establish and activate 5 National Competence Centers for Social Innovation (NCCs) in the involved partner Countries: Croatia, Greece, Italy, Romania and Slovenia. It builds on the legacy of the SEED project developed between 2021 and 2023 in 4 of the mentioned Member States (all except Croatia) where the  blueprints for the Competence Centers were outlined in a co-design process involving not only the project partners, but also a wider ecosystem of stakeholders.
 
The ambition of SEED2SCALE is to reach a more mature stage of the National Competence Centers for Social Innovation, where each of them can rely on a defined legal framework and has developed and implemented effective and shared governance and business models. This process includes a deeper analysis of the contextual frameworks in each Country, as well as a constant dialogue with the ESF+ Managing Authorities and the ecosystems of innovation (including lower level of governance, the private for profit sector, the nonprofit sector, community-based groups, individual innovators). This exchange will be crucial in the process of better defining the competences that the NCCs have to develop to play a relevant role in fostering new relationships within the SI ecosystems, identifying, supporting and upscaling best practices, offering professional resources, raising the awareness and knowledge of the impact of the Social Innovation approach on a number of policies.
 
By adopting the systemic approach, SEED2SCALE implements the following actions to reach the expected outputs:
 
  • The establishment of 5 National Competence Centers for Social Innovation with defined organisational structure, mission and governance;
  • The activation of the Core Competences that each NCC should offer, through a needs assessment, the development of the competences Portfolio and its testing, validation and consolidation through the performance of 5 pilot projects in the Partner Countries;
  • The collaboration with an extended network of public authorities and national stakeholders in co-designing National Strategies and Action Plans on Social Innovation. This activity includes the effort to involve the private sector in the financial sustainability of Social Innovation policies and actions that will be identified in the National Strategies and Action Plans;
  • The development and implementation of Online National Platforms as NCCs resource center hubs, meaning the online interface where information, services, resources, tools, best practices will be available and easily accessible (in national languages) for a growing audience of potential beneficiaries;
  • The participation in a transnational network of organisations committed to create NCCs in all EU Member States and the development of opportunities for peer learning and transnational exchange of knowledge.
Coordinator contact details
 
COMUNE DI TORINO
Fabrizio Barbiero
 
Head of Innovation and EU Funds
 
  Partners

● Comune di Torino
● Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini
● Politecnico di Milano
● Università di Bologna
● Euricse
● Grupul de Consultanță pentru Dezvoltare DCG SRL
● Center for Space Technologies Herman Potocnik Noodung
● Hashnet, Distribuirane Tehnologije
● People’s University of Social Solidarity Economy UnivSSE Coop
● Kollektiva for Social Innovation and Culture
● BSC, Poslovno Podporni Center
● Koinsep Electra Energy
● Impact Hub Ljubljana
● LDK Socioeconomic Development Consultants
● Tehnološki Park Ljubljana
● Higher Incubator Giving Growth & Sustainability
● Act Group
● Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) Organisations Association of the South Aegean

Associated Partners


● Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy – Croatia
● Inštitut Republike Slovenije za Socialno Varstvo
● Poslovna Inteligencija Razvojna Agencija Kozjansko/Development Agency
● Kozjansko
● Sveučilište u Zagrebu Filozofski Fakultet
● Fundacija za Izboljšanje Zaposlitvenih Možnosti
● Prizma, Ustanova
● Hrvatski Poslovni Savjet za Održivi Razvoj
● Inštitut za Ekonomskо Demokracijo
● Research Organisation for the Commons and Peer to Peer Practices
● Urban Municipality of Kranj
● Sklad 05 – Ustanova za Družbene Naložbe
● Agenzia per la Coesione Territoriale – Managing Authority PN Metro Plus
● Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Primorska
● Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs Italy
 

Project main results:

  • 5 running National Competence Centers on Social Innovation in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece and Romania
  • 5 pilot capacity building programs
  • 5 National Strategies and Action Plans for Social Innovation
  • 5 national online platforms
  • 2 festivals on social innovation
  
More information here
 
This project has received financial support from the European Social Fund under Grant Agreement ESF-SI-2023-NCC-01-0003