Activities in the different work packages are explained below.
- WP1 addresses the administrative and financial management of the project. Main progress achieved in this period concerns the continuous coordination and cooperation for the project, alongside with the day-to-day management, the set-up and organization of the internal project communication and implementation progress via monthly virtual meetings, quality check of results and in general the technical and financial monitoring and reporting.
- WP2: During the first twelve months of the Project implementation, the focus has been on the research and analysis of the existing innovation support schemes (used Innovation Audit tools) as well on the preparation and start of implementation of two types of the Policy dialog events – Cross Fertilisation WS and Business breakfast. In the last reporting period, there were only few activities left, including here the submission of two Social innovation documents providing a policy framework (D2.5 and D2.6). Deliverable D 2.5 provides guidelines for Innovation Agencies on how to foster the Policy dialogue among the relevant actors and how to process and further use the information collected during on-the-spot events, whereas the conclusions of D2.6 act as a blueprint in the context of a policy framework that was completed with information by the end of DepoSIt project.
- WP3, coordinated by ADRSM, focuses on the development of the improved Innovation Audit tool, including the Social Innovation dimension. During first implementation period, simultaneously with activities regarding the development of the Innovation Audit tool, in the frame of the WP3, the programme for the Twinning activities among the DepoSIt Partners has been discussed among the responsible partners. This programme was implemented with success during the second reporting period and revealed the importance to share practices among partners in order to improve and adapt their program. Twinnings have been a process that completed each other, where the sessions managed to cover different topics and complement each other.
- WP4: The activities for this WP were continuously implemented during the 2 reporting periods (the process started in the first period and the tratment activities of the RCT finished in the second reporting period). The second reporting period was marked by the end of the RCT process followed by thorough statistical analysis and close communication with NESTA, in order to overview the entire process and to guide towards correct outcomes and results. The RCT policy experiment conducted to test a newly developed Social Innovation Audit tool for SMEs on a cohort of 72 companies in six EU countries was a valuable experience for the innovation agencies of the DepoSIt consortium.
-WP5, coordinated by SEZ with the strong support of CCE, summarizes all tasks related to project communication, dissemination, exploitation and collaboration with other initiatives. Continuous and intense activities regarding the communication and dissemination were implemented during the second reporting period and were actualy intensified after the end of the RCT process, since partners could disseminate more information that could not affect the process. These activities included: the publication of newsletters, the project’s promotion through dedicated social media accounts (Facebook, twitter + LinkedIN) as well as the presentation of the project at (inter-)national events by all partners. All related KPIs were reached and exceeded and the exploitation of DepoSIt results will continue after the project duration due to the high number of Innovation Agencies involved (26), and also due to the post- project activities implemented by the coordinator (synergies with other projects, follow-up proposals with the partners, EEN networking, presentations within NESTA activities etc).
- WP6 concerns the ethical guidance of the project. The partners outlined in several deliverables how the project will ensure the protection of data from stakeholders collected within project, the appropriate consideration of ecological sustainability and biodiversity in all activities as well as the prevention of a potential misuse of project’s results against those.
