The results achieved during the 30 months of SCHIP demonstrate the potential for significant impact in achieving the project's overall objective to be the European ‘go to’ platform for social innovation demand and supply to meet, to support European stakeholders defining and prioritizing social and societal challenges, to encourage a broad participation of social innovators, social entrepreneurs and SMEs to identify, co-develop and test concrete solutions to these needs, and to finally make available a complementary funding mechanism focused on the translation of challenges into marketable solutions.
Final results after the implementation period of beneficiaries indicate that the nature of the support is yielding significant results for social entrepreneurs selected as beneficiaries within SCHIP activities companies.
We highlight a selection of these here:
Company A is an innovative solution provider developing an affordable and portable solar panel for any kind of apartment. With the support of SCHIP they will be able to pilot and deploy a first batch of solar panels into a city centre. Through their brand-new technology, this pilot could reach an astonishing impact, to make energy production into urban centres smarter, more flexible and affordable.
Company B has developed an innovative tool to help wannabe entrepreneurs turn ideas into companies, by being constantly mentored by professional business support organizations via remote. Support from SCHIP enabled them to finetune their software and organize a big live demo-event together with an established incubator to field test their tool with a large pool of wannabe entrepreneurs.
Company C is an integrated solution provider to simplify remote monitoring and interaction with elderly people in remote areas. Through SCHIP they have been selected to implement their solution in north-western Europe, with the aim to connect 200 houses with care-givers and allow real-time interaction. This pilot could clearly turn into a fast-track introduction to potential clients and distributors.
Company D is a social enterprise devoted to the production of “zero kilometre” vegetables and food into city outskirts, and to the on-line order and delivery of its products into city centre. Through SCHIP they had the opportunity to involve migrants into their production chain, teaching them how to become “farmers 2.0” and giving them the opportunity to become part of the farmers’ cooperative.
