Project description
Strengthening the role of Higher Education Institutions
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) should expand their roles to promote social innovation that addresses complex challenges. In Europe, creating ecosystems that involve diverse stakeholders, such as social entrepreneurs, SMEs, start-ups, and foundations, is essential. The EU-funded INNONEXUS project aims to strengthen the role of HEIs as key players in driving social innovation, fostering collaboration with other stakeholders in the process. The project will follow a two-phase methodology that is both distinct and complementary. The first phase will focus on building the capacity of innovation actors to collaborate effectively with social entrepreneurs. In the second phase, the focus will shift to enhancing social innovation actors’ access to resources within innovation ecosystems.
Objective
It is widely acknowledged that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) should go beyond their traditional education and research functions and also be key actors in promoting, creating and sustaining social innovation that responds to multifaceted challenges. Social innovation has gained relevance within the framework of academia at the international level, although is recognised the need to enable social innovation ecosystems across Europe through the adoption of systemic solutions, involving diverse actors, institutions, and places, involving all-kind of social innovation actors (social innovation actors/social entrepreneurs, SMEs, start-ups, accelerators and business incubators, investors, industry, foundations, philanthropy societies, HEIs and RTOs public-owned enterprises). Hence, Innovation Nexus starts from a clear commitment from the participating HEIs to balance the fourth helix by increasing the role of HEIs as drivers of social innovation, but in co-construction with other stakeholders from across the fourth helix. Specifically, a methodology consisting of two distinct (but complementary) phases has been defined. In the first phase, the focus will be on innovation actors and on building capacity among them, so that they become better equipped to work with social entrepreneurs; in the second phase, the focus will be on social innovation actors and on their access to the resources of innovation ecosystems.
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems
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HORIZON.3.2.3 - Joint programmes close to innovators
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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1099-085 Lisboa
Portugal
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