The European Social Innovation Challenge Prize 2022
HORIZON Recognition Prize
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-EIC-2022-SocialInnovationChallengePrize
- Programme
- The European Social Innovation Challenge Prize 2022
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- March 31, 2022
- Deadline
- May 17, 2022
- Deadline Model
- two-stage
- Budget
- €150,000
- Keywords
- DecarbonisationOtherEnergy EfficiencySocial and economic geographyPublic health
Description
The European Social Innovation Competition- the Challenge Prize 2022 will focus on ‘the future of living, innovation for affordable, and sustainable housing districts’.
The objective of the New European Bauhaus movement is to re-invent our current way of living to meet the goals of the European Green Deal. By creatively addressing the way we construct and renovate our city buildings, major determinants of greenhouse gas emissions, the EU Bauhaus Initiative aims to engage citizens and all relevant actors to ignite a cultural change leading to more sustainable living. The ‘Renovation Wave for Europe strategy is pivotal to contributing to this aim and to achieving a successful EU post-COVID recovery and long-term green transition. Beyond addressing energy poverty of the current building stock in the EU, the Renovation Wave – and the Affordable Housing Initiative in particular - represents a chance to rethink and restore not only the economic activities linked to renovation of buildings and housing districts, but also the way we live in them.
Social innovation can be a driver to make housing districts not only spaces to live, but also more livable, sustainable, inclusive and closer to the residents’ needs. Social innovation in this case can boost employment and improve energy efficiency, while ensuring cities’ and regions’ sustainability and citizens’ well-being. When approached from an innovative perspective, renovation of buildings shifts from a cost into an opportunity for local creativity and business’ market.
Against this background, the European Social Innovation Competition - the Challenge Prize 2022 will support proposals coming from social innovators and bringing forward innovations expected to generate economic and/or societal benefits (i.e. positive impacts on employment, societal, environmental, scientific, vulnerable groups etc.). Gender-sensitive solutions with regards to energy consumption, mobility patterns, waste management, and other sustainable living aspects should be taken into account, where relevant.[
In addition to non-technological social innovations, the competition will look for projects with a particular focus on breakthrough, market-creating and deep-tech innovations embracing the policy objectives of this year’s editions, which will boost innovation within housing districts and, consequently, will have an impact on local prosperity and sustainability.
Expected results
The European Social Innovation Challenge Prize 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 early-stage ideas into structured businesses.
Indicative time for evaluation and award of prizes
The jury evaluation is planned to take place between May and October 2022. Applicants will be informed of the outcome in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Eligibility & Conditions
1. General conditions
A) Admissibility conditions: for further information, please see the rules of contest.
B) Proposal page limits and layout. This competition is organised in 2 stages. The short application will have a maximum of 7 pages. The full application will have a maximum of 15 pages. For further information, please see the rules of contest.
2. Eligibility criteria:
- The applicant must be a natural person or a legal entity located in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, (OCTs)) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe.
- Proposed solutions that harm the environment or social welfare are not eligible.
- The proposed solutions or activities contained in the application must have taken place (or, in case of early stage innovations, must target beneficiaries) in a Member State (including overseas countries and territories, OCTs) or in an Associated Country to Horizon Europe.
- The proposed solutions must relate to ongoing (even in an early phase) or completed initiatives started after 11 December 2019. In the case of ongoing activities, only work achieved by the submission deadline will be considered for the prize. (Applicants are required to prove the starting date of the proposed solution by providing supporting documents)
- Winners of all categories, including 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.
3. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion. For further information, please see the rules of contest.
4. Evaluation and award:
For the 2022 edition, this prize is organised in a two-stage submission. The same award criteria apply to both stages, as specificed below.
Award criteria, scoring and thresholds.
Three prizes will be awarded after closure of the contest to the applicants who, in the opinion of the jury of independent experts, best address the following cumulative criteria:
- Degree of Innovation - the degree to which any new product, service or model is new for its given context in connection to the challenge of the competition. The idea must be new and innovative within its given socio-economic and geographical context;
- Impact - the potential of the proposal to tackle the competition challenge. The applicant must demonstrate how the proposed solution will contribute to solving the challenge.
- Sustainability- the financial and environmental sustainability of the proposal.
- Scalability and replicability - the idea's potential to scale and be replicated, be it at regional, national, European or global level.
For further information, please see the rules of contest.
5. Submission and evaluation processes. For further information, please see the rules of contest.
6. Indicative timeline for evaluation. For further information, please see the rules of contest.
7. Legal and financial set-up of the grants. For further information, please see the rules of contest.
8. Specific conditions. For further information, please see the rules of contest.
Documents
Call documents:
Standard application (you will find it once you start filling in your application)
Additional documents:
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 2. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 3. Research Infrastructures
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 4. Health
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 5. Culture, creativity and inclusive society
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 6. Civil Security for Society
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 7. Digital, Industry and Space
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 10. European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE)
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 12. Missions
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 13. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme and Rules for Participation Regulation 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
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