Social Ecosystems for Fair and Inclusive Transition
Coordinator:
Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Srl Sb
The overarching goal of this project is to develop new approaches that enhance the collaboration between local authorities, social innovations, and other actors to effectively meet the challenge of the green transition and the digital transition at municipal/local level.
This project will support social innovations that work with people experiencing socio-economic disadvantages and their challenges in the green and digital transitions, ensuring a fair transition, while capturing the learnings of the public-private partnership between social innovations and policy-makers. This will act as a guide/framework for other policy-makers seeking to address societal and environmental challenges by leveraging social innovation, therefore strengthening the social innovation ecosystem in Ireland, Italy, and Europe.
The project will be implemented in Cork (Ireland) and Turin (Italy) with the results being used in a replicable guide/framework to be distributed in national contexts as well as at EU level.
This novel and inclusive approach to social innovation will add value and fairness to inclusive transitions while developing the capacity of policy-makers - enabling them to act not only as decision-makers but as facilitators and co-creators in the social economy.
Furthermore, 53.5% of the project budget will be going directly to social innovations in Cork and Turin, with cash grants and non-financial supports (capacity-building supports).
The main results of this action will include: 1) two portfolios of social innovations (in Turin and Cork) that work with people experiencing socio-economic disadvantage and their challenges in the green and digital transitions; 2) improvement of cross-collaboration between the public (local authority) and the social innovation (local “solutions”’ providers) sector; 3) facilitation of transnational transfer of knowledge know-how between consortium members, also extending the learnings to other EU Member States.
This project is being implemented by four organisations from two different countries.