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Department of Management - DISA

SEED - Social Innovation Ecosystem Development

EaSI (Programma Europeo per l'occupazione e l'innovazione sociale) più FSE (Fondo Sociale Europeo)

Areas: Social business and impact investing and finance Social Entreneurship, B-Corp and benefit Social entrepreneurship

Funding Agency: supported by the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) (2014-2020) and the European Social Fund.

Grant Agreement Number VS/2021/0191

SEED is one of the six projects supported by the European Commission in order to establish national competence centres for social innovation across the EU. During two years (May 2021-May 2023) social innovation organisations, research centres, ESF managing authorities and other partners design and develop competence centres, which can help their countries to promote social innovation, including with funding from ESF+ and other EU programmes.

The specific objective of SEED is to stimulate and support the establishment of 4 Social Innovation Competence Centers in Italy, Greece, Romania and Slovenia, where researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and civil servants will work together to create public and open infrastructures capable to assist national ESF managing authorities to better employ the ESF+ funds for the mainstream of Social Innovation as Public Sector Innovation approach to societal challenges.

To achieve these objectives SEED, by taking into the account the priority needs of ESF managing authorities, will engage, build and connect social innovation actors from: ITALY, GREECE, SLOVENIA and ROMANIA with diversified ecosystems to design and implement SI competence centers based on 4 priorities/challenges for the whole consortium and for each country respectively.

Project Partners:

  • Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna Department of Economic Science coordinator

Other Departments involved:

-  Department of Management,

- Department of Political and Social Sciences,

- Department of Sociology and Business Law,

- Department of The Arts

  • Italy - Municipality of Torino
  • Greece- Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs General Directorate of Labour Relations, Occupational Health & Safety at Work And Employment Integration
  • Slovenia - Ministry of Economic Development And Technology, Directorate for Regional Development
  • Italy - Politecnico di Torino
  • Italy - Politecnico di Milano
  • Greece- ANKA, Development Agency of Karditsa
  • Italy - EURICSE European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises
  • Romania - Grupul de Consultanta pentru Dezvoltare Dcg Srl
  • Greece - SCIENCE FOR YOU NPC company
  • Slovenia - Center Noordung, Center for Space Technologies Herman Potocnik Noordung
  • Slovenia - Hashnet Distribuirane Tehnologije L.t.d.
  • Italy - Giacomo Brodolini Foundation
  • Italy - Italia Sociale Foundation
  • Slovenia - Sončna zadruga, z.b.o Slovenian energy cooperative
  • Bulgaria - KOLLEKTIVA non-profit organisation

  • DiSA Team Leader: Giuseppe Torluccio

  • Total cost:  € 3 997 521,25

  • Start date: 17/05/2022 End date  16/05/2024

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