Revealing the European Social Innovation Competition semi-finalists

A hands-on smart cities and Internet of Things education programme for secondary school students and communities.

Alpha+Omega is a data analyses and algorithms platform designed especially for non data-savvy professionals who seek answers to their problems but have no knowledge of scientific methods and mathematical modelling necessary to do complicated analysis such as prediction and fraud detection.

Bitizen is social platform for digital democracy, where public sentiment is analysed, aggregated and presented so politicians can see a dashboard of the public wishes on every political issue.

Circuteria is a smart and sustainable platform which 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.

Digital Cleanup application is a tool to reduce climate warming. It helps people to reduce climate warming by cleaning their devices from digital waste and measure the cleanup’s impact on CO2 reduction. The app will help people to develop skills of digital hygiene to reduce wasteful digital practices and through that contribute to the European economy’s green and digital future.

Eco digital manufacturing marketplace is 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’

Countless companies in industries such as finance and healthcare collect massive amounts of data. This data contains tremendous knowledge inside, but unfortunately it cannot be easily shared due to the law such as GDPR. Generatrix is an AI-based privacy preserving data synthesizing platform which can boost big data innovations, without compromising the privacy of the individual.

Humanity is an innovative project that uses empathy as a powerful tool to raise corporate awareness through Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEI+B) social simulation games, and contributes to generate meaningful and lasting social impact while breaking socioeconomic barriers and creating employment opportunities for the most marginalised and vulnerable.

When thousands of refugees came to Germany every week in 2015, we provided the city of Augsburg with a multilingual and open source information app to provide understandable advice and assistance for these newcomers: Integreat. Integreat has since been implemented in 70 German municipalities breaking down information barriers for all newcomers.

Min BästBy – My Best Village is a digital matchmaking platform between people and places. With the purpose of giving people who want to move to rural areas a digital and interactive tool to find their dream village. At the same time, giving these villages the opportunity to market themselves in an easier and innovative way so they can grow their population and keep evolving in a sustainable matter.

Naturalization of the “Metro” space for healthier mobility is the creation of a new ecosystem in the subsoil as a global standard and reference model for the metro of the future.

The Orchestra Fields develops unmanned, automatized, electrified, optimized and sustainable agriculture field based on railway traction system powered with renewables. It benefits farmers as it cuts their costs and frees up time. It cuts emissions making food production sustainable and increases productivity of a crops while lowering food costs.

To coordinate and link activities of sustainability organisations in demystifying and attracting underrepresented and minority groups to work within the sector. We will achieve this via an online careers platform that not only showcases roles but create career plans, and mentoring opportunities for young people with sustainability organisations. Ensuring all are represented in our green economy.

Ribes Academy is an innovative training model allowing disadvantaged people (especially NEETs) to learn digital skills in exchange for supporting elderly people.

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!

Sofia2Go is the marketplace in Eastern Europe that brings together the good food left at restaurants, bakeries, hotels & supermarkets with consumers and people in need. Our aim is to reduce food waste and optimize food production in the food sector in Bulgaria and later Eastern Europe. In addition, our goal is to raise awareness of the issue and shift our society’s food habits into more sustainable ones.

SoulCellSystem allows anyone to participate in innovating new Europe and better solutions for wicked problems. A very good question is a gateway to innovation! SoulCellSystem incubates and accelerate citizen’s own ideas and gives people concrete tools in developing more sustainable and green solutions together.

Starbase18 is developing a continues international circular living lab for and by students and professionals to learn about the circular economy and putting it into practise with real life circular projects. Replacing linear with circular education both content wise as on how to teach and practise with using domain specialists from the region and abroad.

start2impact is an e-learning platform created to inspire and train young people to have a positive impact on society and our planet with their digital skills. Thanks to our innovative training method, based on dozens of practical projects, hundreds of young people have found a job where they can feel fulfilled and have an impact.

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

The Future Game strives to unleash youth’s power to imagine positive futures and activate collective initiatives through a playful learning experience of impact entertainment.

The Venture Science Doctorate is an integrated Masters/PhD where candidates characterize a key sector and conduct research projects to form high impact science ventures.

Twin Science & Robotics aims to revolutionize the education system by developing AI literacy with quality education that every student can afford, access to core resources, and hands-on experiences in personalized paths by Twin AIkit.

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.

We will create a collaboration platform where youth (18-29 y.) and agricultural entities find each other and agree for youth mid-term internships in farms. Mutual knowledge exchange will happen. Youth will be able to find their career or business opportunities in regions. We seek to direct youth knowledge and skills towards emptying regions.

Zekki – What´s up? 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.