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Revealing the 10 European Social Innovation Competition finalists
3 November 2021
Today, the European Commission, the European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency (EISMEA) announced the 10 finalists in this year’s European Social Innovation Competition Skills for Tomorrow – Shaping a green and digital future.
After a thorough review, the Competition’s Judging Panel has selected 10 finalists from among the 30 teams that made it through to the semi-final round of the Competition. The 10 Finalists all take an innovative approach to developing the skills needed to support Europe’s green and digital transition.
The Finalists will now receive a support package to help them finalise their projects and prepare their pitches for the Awards event on 8 December, after which EISMEA will announce the three winning projects. The three winners will be awarded €50,000 each.
The 10 Finalists in this year’s European Social Innovation Competition are:
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Circuteria
Circuteria – The smart and sustainable Circuteria platform connects all stakeholders along a circular bioeconomy to produce, use and recycle sustainable resources. To this end, we collect market data to create matches between buyers and sellers, and model their transaction potentials in real time to leverage synergy effects along entire supply chains.a
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Eco digital manufacturing marketplace
Eco digital manufacturing marketplace – A digital marketplace for 3D printed products made from recycled materials and manufacturing solutions to help organizations reduce waste. The marketplace will be paired with a production facility and will act as a crowd printing platform. The main purpose will be to create a full circuit for circular economy products made from recycled plastic.
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Edumus
Edumus – Edumus brings 21st-century skills to schools. We engage working professionals in teaching – one grade and one subject at a time, without having them sacrifice their current job. We supplement our offering with a development program for professionals to practice leadership and gain teaching skills.
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Forward43
Forward43 – provides an online marketplace that would host hundreds of thousands of social enterprises across Europe (focus on green innovations) to be matched with existing ‘needs’/‘problems’ facing policy-makers, businesses, other organizations. The platform will be the ‘Uber’ of (green) social enterprises, where demands are placed (challenges) would be ‘matched’ with the most fitting existing ‘social enterprise’.
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Shaping Horizons
Shaping Horizons – Shaping Horizons creates innovation programmes for education. Our research-inspired methodology allows young participants from different countries to learn by building impact-driven social projects, while our corporate partners upskill their employees as well as get access to talent and solutions. We are committed to building a social innovation ecosystem beyond countries.
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SkillLab
SkillLab – SkillLab develops a mobile solution that helps people to identify and express their skills. On the basis of a detailed skill-profile, individual pathways are shown by mapping skills to occupations and to training offerings that address skill-gaps. The solution is designed to enhance existing employment and training services and builds on ESCO.
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Snowball Effect
Snowball Effect – Snowball Effect is the first school supporting aspiring social entrepreneurs to replicate proven social enterprises in their region. Our participants learn directly from the initial founders of successful social enterprises to replicate their concept. The solutions to cope with today’s challenges exist, it’s high time to spread them!
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Summitto
Summitto – Summitto helps to digitalise tax authorities and value added tax in business-friendly ways, while upskilling their employees, fighting fraud and increasing revenue.
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Happening from ViiVids® (multi-Vantage-Videos)
Happening from ViiVids® (multi-Vantage-Videos) – If a picture tells a thousand words and video a thousand picture… imagine what we could do with a thousand videos. Like Google street view, but with video; Our ViiVids® let you watch events from any perspective in one immersive navigable experience. Making user generated video content more collaborative, immersive, and verifiable.
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Zekki – What´s up?
Zekki – What´s up? – Zekki is a digital service matching young people and diverse support services based on the online wellbeing self-assessment quiz. This digital service gives tools for young people to ponder their own well-being, future, preferences, tomorrows choices and own tracks. It also gives guidance and leads to appropriate support when needed.
What happens now?
The Finalists will now receive further support over the coming weeks, with additional one-on-one expert coaching to provide them with additional knowledge and skills, helping them to prepare their projects for the Awards event.
In total, the finalists will receive an additional ten hours of personalised coaching per team across the finalist phase, allowing them to fine-tune their pitches for the final event on 8 December. All of the finalists and semi-finalists will be invited to attend the Award Ceremony along with the winner of the 2021 Impact Prize.