This coordination and support action serves the EU Missions by:

• supporting the recognition of social innovation in the EU Missions;
• identifying social innovations with the potential to advance the EU Missions;
• identifying the social innovators and entrepreneurs to carry out the upscaling;
• setting up a network and build the capacity of social innovators and entrepreneurs, and impact investors to advance the EU Missions by scaling up social innovations;
• establishing a community of practice;
• providing an interface between the EU Missions and the network to match the demand for and supply of social innovation solutions as well as social innovation investment;
• enabling social innovators and social entrepreneurs to navigate the complex challenges of scaling up across complex public systems and markets better;
• expanding the range of financial instruments and sources of support so that the innovations continue to scale, after the support provided;
• establishing a framework for the implementation of a future research agenda to ensure that experience is gathered and learning, shared, building the profile of social innovation within and across the EU Mission fields;
• identifying the most favourable national legal entity to support social innovation projects on a case-by-case basis.

Applicants are also encouraged to build on relevant ongoing activities undertaken by the EU Missions such as Mission Platforms.

To help EU Missions achieve their objectives, the action should undertake the following activities:

1. create and animate a network of entities interested in scaling up social innovations to advance the EU Missions as well as entities interested in investing in social innovation ventures, for the purpose of raising awareness and facilitating information exchange;
2. create a favourable environment to upscale social innovation with the financial support of beneficiaries like entities interested in investing in such social innovation ventures;
3. offer advisory services and mentoring for ‘social innovators’ wishing to expand the geographic scope of their activities within the EU and countries associated to Horizon Europe or interested in taking up social innovation from abroad. Advisory and mentoring may go as far assisting the preparation of upscaling plans and investment proposals, and matchmaking with social innovation funders.

Applicants should propose convincing cooperation models with the relevant Commission services such as the EU Mission Secretariats to ensure that the project contributes to the objectives of the EU Missions. Applicants should ensure that they contribute comparable added-value to all EU Missions including through synergies between them.