Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The European Social Innovation Competition aims at raising awareness about social innovation across a wide audience, sparking the creation of new socially innovative ideas, creating a network of like-minded practitioners and supporting finalists to transform their ideas into structured businesses.
Detailed Call Description
The European Social Innovation Competition 2024 will focus on social innovation in “Digital Democracy”. It will emphasise the importance of digital social innovation to strengthen the Union democratic space where social economy actors and civil society play a crucial role. It will support innovative solutions to achieve the above aims in a range of different ways (e.g., through new, scalable digital technologies or innovative use and commercialisation of existing ones). Digital technologies and data are tools and assets for social innovators to build new sustainable and community-driven business models which will ultimately bring positive impacts to democracy and societal changes.
Three winners (ranked 1st, 2nd, and 3rd) will receive a prize.
The three winners (ranked 1st, 2nd, and 3rd) would be rewarded with €75.000, €50.000 and €25.000 respectively.
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Public Administration
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Businesses
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants must be:
- A natural person or a legal entity established in one of the EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories, (OCTs) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe.
- Winners of all categories, both from the Challenge and the Impact Prizes, of previous editions of the European Social Innovation Competition are not eligible.
- Applicants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize CANNOT receive a second prize for the same activities.
All applicants must register in the Participant Register – before the call deadline – and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, you will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin.
Proposed solutions that harm the environment or social welfare or discriminate on basis of gender, age, socio-economic and geographic situation, disability, ethnicity, and sexual or gender identity, or are not in line with the Do No Significant Harm Principle are not eligible.
The proposed solutions must relate to ongoing or completed initiatives. In case of ongoing activities, only work achieved by the submission deadline will be considered for the prize.
The proposed solutions or activities contained in the application must have taken place in a EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories, OCTs) or in an Associated Country to Horizon Europe.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
George Christou
Scientific Officer
Email: gchristou@research.org.cy
Nedi Kaffa
Scientific Officer
Email: nkaffa@research.org.cy
EU Contact Point
Research Enquiry Service: https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/contact/research-enquiry-service_en