European Social Innovation Competition 2021

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 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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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!

Summitto helps to digitalise tax authorities and value added tax in business-friendly ways, while upskilling their employees, fighting fraud and increasing revenue.

If a picture tells a thousand words and video a thousand pictures… imagine what we could do with a thousand videos. Like Google street view, but with video; Happaning’s ViiVids® let you watch events from any perspective in one immersive navigable experience. Making user generated video content more collaborative, immersive, and verifiable.

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.

Achilles Kameas is Professor of Pervasive Computing Systems at Hellenic Open University (HOU), where he serves as Deputy Dean of the School of Science and Technology and Director of the MSc course “Pervasive and Mobile Computing Systems”.

Alexandra Junášková, is the director of the Slovak National Agency for Erasmus+ programme for education and training. She is responsible for the administration of the programme but  also for the development of methodological, conceptual and content design of various aspects of programme implementation including policy priorities on a national level.

Balzhan Orazbayeva is the strategic initiatives manager at University Industry Innovation Network, a leading organisation on university-industry engagement.

Birgit Lao has worked in education policy creation and management for about 20 years: from primary to adult education.  She has been promoting education, education innovation and export for years and initiated the creation of the Education Estonia brand while being the CEO of Foundation Innove.

Charlotte Forsingdal is currently employed by Danish Standards and is an expert in national and European standardization. In cooperation with a colleague, she is secretary for a Danish-lead technical committee under CEN (European Committee for Standardization) on circular economy in construction.

Kevin Sanikidze is a learning designer and edtech specialist. Kevin joined Hyper Island in 2019 where he leads the UX Designer program as well as Cluster Manager Education that is developed in partnership with other educational institutions from the Baltic Sea region.

Mary Cleary is Secretary General of the Irish Computer Society (ICS) and Chair of the Irish Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition. She has extensive expertise in and experience of representing the IT profession in Ireland, particularly at a European level, where she is Chair of the CEN TC 428, Digital Competences and IT Professionalism.

Monica Paolizzi is an Italian Systemic Designer and Social Entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience in impact design and acceleration of social businesses and no-profit initiatives.

Perttu Jämsén works as an expert in the Lifelong learning – key focus area in Finnish innovation fund Sitra and examines lifelong learning from the perspective of working life. During the past three years Perttu has been delivering the joint intention of 30 national organizations in Finland and a vast study of competency development opportunity costs.

Tibor Dőri is the director of Euro-Contact Business School (higher VET provider offering professional qualifications in management). The school was the formal sole partner of OUBS UK between 1989 and 2012. He was a tutor of OUBS UK in Hungary at HR, marketing, change and strategy management.

Ulf-Daniel Ehlers was appointed Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe in 2011. From 2011-2016 he held the position of Vice president at the same university and has been responsible for Quality and Academic Affairs.

Vilma Popovienė is the Manager of Lithuanian Social Innovation Cluster, which was established in 2020 aiming to make an impact on a systemic level and empower society for transformation, co-creation and finding of new and effective solutions for emerging social challenges.