Project duration: 17. 5. 2021–16. 5. 2023
Project website: www.seedeuproject.eu

Aim and Objectives of the project

SEED encouraged and supported the establishment of four Competence Centres for Social Innovation – in Italy, Greece, Romania, and Slovenia. Researchers, experts, policymakers, and public servants worked together to create a public and open infrastructure and provided support for the integration of social innovation into national innovation ecosystems through the development of effective guidelines, the implementation of trainings, workshops, events, and other activities.

Project Indicators and Results

To achieve these goals, the SEED project, taking into account the priority needs of the national ESF managing authorities, engaged social innovation actors through four priority areas of ESF support:

• addressing social innovation as a driving force for public sector innovation (Italy);
• promoting social innovation in the field of digitalization (Slovenia);
• recognizing, reconnecting, and institutionalizing social innovation (Greece);
• using social innovation for the development of local communities (Romania).

Project Partners

Italy: City of Turin (lead partner); EURICSE, Trento; Fondazione Italia Sociale; Polytechnic University of Turin; University of Bologna; Polytechnic University of Milan; Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini
Slovenia: Ministry of Economic Development and Technology; Hashnet d.o.o.; Sončna zadruga; Noordung Centre
Greece: General Directorate of Labour Relations of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs; Science for YOY NPC; Kollektiva MAKE; An.Ka Consortium
Romania: Fonduri Structurale

The project is supported by the European Commission within the framework of the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI+).
All further information is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/social/easi and http://ec.europa.eu/esf.