Deadline: 7 April 2017
The European Commission is seeking entries from individuals, groups and organizations for its Social Innovation Competition 2017 with an aim to stimulate social innovation’s potential to provide solutions to societal challenges and foster sustainable and inclusive growth in Europe. It will directly support some ideas best illustrating that potential.
The 2017 European Social Innovation Competition seeks to ‘reboot’ equality by inspiring fresh and energetic approaches to digital inclusion, connectivity, and skills development.
Prize Information
- The amount of each of the 3 challenge prizes is 50 000 euros.
- There will be no ranking among the winners. Afterwards, the Competition will be re-opened for the semi-finalists in order to select the winner of the impact prize of 50,000 euros.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Competition is open to everyone (natural persons or legal persons) resident in EU Member States and in countries participating in Horizon 2020 (mentioned below)
- Ideas and proposals from all sources, sectors and all types of organisations including for-profit, nonfor-profit, or private companies are welcome. Applications involving several organisations and/or from various countries are possible.
- Entries must be original ideas from contestants. They may propose new or improved ways to implement existing solutions, combine them, or adapt them to a different context or target group, but they cannot be exact copies of those. The contestants must demonstrate the novelty of their solution, in comparison with those already developed/implemented by themselves or by others in their context.
- The contestants are also expected to indicate how the participation in the Competition may benefit their idea (e.g. prize, mentoring, networking, visibility or other related benefit).
- Contestants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.
- Contestants may submit more than one entry and be named as a partner in more than one entry. All costs of entering the Competition must be borne by contestants.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must apply online via given website.
Eligible Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Moldova, Norway, Switzerland, Faroe Islands, Ukraine, Tunisia, Georgia.
For more information, please visit 2017 Innovation Competition.