European Social Innovation Competition 2024
This year’s the European Social Innovation Competition 2024 will focus on social innovation in ‘Digital Democracy’.
‘The European Social Innovation Competition (EUSIC) aims at stimulating the potential of social innovation to provide solutions to societal challenges and to foster sustainable and inclusive growth in Europe. This competition looks for new entrepreneurial solutions responding to the most burning social needs, creating social relationships and enabling new collaborations in an innovative way and bringing effective solutions to systemic social challenges.
This competition is open, among others, to non-profit and for-profit organisations, such as entrepreneurs and social enterprises, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), educational institutions and universities.
The prize attracts a great number of applicants each year. Past editions topics were the following: Fighting energy poverty – Repower EU (2023), Affordable housing districts (2022), Skills for tomorrow – Shaping a green and digital future (2021), Reimagine Fashion (2020), Challenging Plastic Waste (2019), Re:think Local (2018), Equality Rebooted (2017), Integrated Futures (2016), New Ways to Grow (2015), The Job Challenge (2014), and New forms of work (2013).
Three winners will be rewarded with a prize of EUR 75 000, EUR 50 000, and EUR 25 000 for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ranked winners.
The 2024 call for proposals is now closed. The deadline for applications was 11 June 2024, 17:00 CET.’
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