Project description
Collective awareness platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation
CHEST aims to create a Pan-European "point of presence" to activate social interaction and social innovation that lies latent within and across organizations, enterprises, and individuals. The goal is to increment the number and success rate of initiatives that use collective awareness approaches to respond to high-impact societal challenges. To do so, the project will:- engage a large base of organizations, networks, and programs that already operate successfully in the areas of social innovation, entrepreneurship, early stage business incubation, service design, and creativity. This CHEST Community has been started with 18 important organizations already involved as supporting partners;- create a liquid information and social deliberation platform, based on a cooperative awareness approach and implemented on top of a broad spectrum of social media, which gives voice to communities bearing interests about hard-to-solve, high-impact social problems. The platform promotes the emergence of innovative solutions and allows a transparent and collective testing and selection of social innovation experiments;- launch and manage three rounds of open calls to distribute a consistent part of our project budget (around 2,5 Million euro); these funds will be allocated with a public competition for ideas with social innovation, and measure the effectiveness of proposed responses to social problems. This evaluation and co-funding scheme includes public assessment of proposals with crowdfunding and crowdsourcing (for optimal combination of expert/stakeholders input).The beneficiaries of the project are individuals, companies and organizations that want social innovation projects, and need to have their original ideas field-tested by an intelligent ad hoc crowd of experts and stakeholders.
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Call for proposal
FP7-ICT-2013-10
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Funding Scheme
CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
00144 ROMA
Italy
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Participants (30)
1150 WIEN
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9000 GENT
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37213 WITZENHAUSEN
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80802 MUNCHEN
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10117 Berlin
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10587 Berlin
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10829 BERLIN
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12043 BERLIN
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08034 Barcelona
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08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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28003 MADRID
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0000 MACROOM CORK
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108 REYKJAVIK
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50127 FIRENZE
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50013 Campi Bisenzio (Fi)
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80127 NAPOLI
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73100 LECCE
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20133 Milano
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56011 CALCI PI
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2311TD LEIDEN
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3063CE ROTTERDAM
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9723 JD GRONINGEN
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3032 CK ROTTERDAM
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M4 1FS Manchester
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G12 0XH Glasgow
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SR6 0AN SUNDERLAND
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LS6 3QS LEEDS
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W1U 1PQ LONDON
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NW5 1TL LONDON
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SK8 6GN Cheadle Hulme
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