1. CHEST
Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks

2. Title: CHEST: Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks
Instrument: Integrated Project
Mission:
Foster Social Innovation and sustainable cooperation
through the provision of an open collective
deliberation platform to support innovative ideas and
initiatives through the seed-funding paradigm.
Partnership
Engineering SpA (IT): Management and Coordination:
PNO Group (UK): Visibility, Communication, Venture
EIPCM (DE): Social Innovation, Digital Media
CHEST Supporting Partners: more than 21
(Incubators, Universities, etc.)
Budget: 2,950 k euro (2,500 for Open Calls)
Duration: 30 month:
The project

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What can CHEST do for innovators?
◦ Coordination, Discussion, Events
◦ And last but not least: money
What can innovators do for CHEST?
◦ Exchange of Results, Communication channels,
dissemination, etc
◦ And last but not least: ideas, people
What we are going to do together ?
◦ A new Social Innovation Cluster…
◦ First Goal, a Networking session in Vilnius:
The project

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Launch and manage three rounds of open
calls to distribute a consistent part of the project
budget (around 2,5 Millions of euro)
◦ these funds will be allocated with a public completion for ideas
on Digital-based social innovation
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Experiment with crowd and mixed
expert/stakeholders evaluation and cofunding schemes.
Objectives

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To facilitate the generation of community derived
ideas that address societal challenges.
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To invite social entrepreneurs from across Europe to
submit their ideas through three open funding calls
for proposals, which will then be evaluated by both
the crowd community and external independent
evaluators
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To transform the novel ideas selected into viable
added value social initiatives.
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To communicate the results of the project across the
EU and to engage with key communities, investors
and incubators active with an interest in digital social
innovation to ensure the sustainability of the
programme.
Objectives

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The SUPPORTERS of the project are of two kinds:
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1) interest-bearing communities and
organizations that are active in a wide range of
societal issues and can put their experience to
work in the definition of problems
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2) social innovation operators in a large
sense, higher education institutions, foundations,
venture capital firms, business incubators, idea
management companies, who can contribute
with their already existing programs and tools to
the discovery, evaluation and co-funding of social
innovation ideas.
The supporting partners

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The Direct Beneficiaries of the project are
individuals, companies and organizations that
◦ not only look for funding original social
innovation projects
◦ but also wish to have their ideas field-tested by
the large crowd of experts and interest bearers
that will be gathered around the Project.
Direct Beneficiares

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Leader: ENG
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T1.1 [m1-m30] Project Administration and Resource
Monitoring (ENG)
T1.2 [m1-m30] Quality Control and Work Plan Monitoring
and Updating (ENG)
T1.3 [m1-m30] Reporting to EC (ENG)
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WP1:
Management

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Leader: ENG
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T2.1 [m1-m4] Open Call Preparation and Guidelines (PNO)
Task T2.2 [m5-m14] Open Call Running and Proposal
Evaluation (ENG)
T2.3 [m11-m30] Selected projects Monitoring and Impact
Analysis (EIPCM)
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WP2:
Open calls execution

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Leader: EIPCM
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T3.1 [m1-m4] Set-up and Start-up of CHEST Platform (ENG)
T3.2 [m4-m30] IT Platform Management and Support (ENG)
T3.3 [m4-m30] Platform animation (EIPCM)
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WP3: Collective
awareness platform

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Leader: PNO
T4.1 [m1-m30] Dissemination planning and implementation
(PNO)
 T4.2 [m6-m24] Road show: Event management and
organisations (PNO)
 T4.3 [m6-m30] Community Start-up and engagement (PNO)
 T4.4 [m5-m30] Synergies with other relevant initiatives (EIPCM)
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WP4: Dissemination and
community management

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Leader: EIPCM
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T5.1 [m1-m20] Social innovation vision and ethical issues
(EIPCM)
T5.2 [m6-m30] Crowdfunding and seed finance aspects
(EIPCM)
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WP5: Social and
economic aspects

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Digital Social Innovation
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3 strands
◦ Strand 1: call for ideas
◦ Strand 2: call for partners
◦ Strand 3: call for applications
Open Calls

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For each strand:
◦ Timesheet
◦ Application form
◦ Terms & Conditions
◦ Eligibility criteria
◦ Selection criteria:
 originality, impact, relevance to
objectives, technologic advancement
◦ Payment or Funding terms
Guidelines

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Overall budget: 2.5M €
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30 ideas with 6k each
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5 sub-projects with up to 150k each
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23 prototypes with up to 60k each
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about 200k for evaluators and other
unexpected expenses
Guidelines: budget proposal

16. Time frame:
 Strand 1 - Ideas:
◦ call opens 31st January ‘14 – closes 30th April ‘14
◦ winning ideas by June ’14
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Strand 2 – Partners:
◦ call opens 31st March ‘14 – closes 31 May ‘14
◦ evaluation, EU contracting by 31st October ’14
◦ sub-projects: 1st November ’14 …up to 31st October ’15
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Strand 3 – Prototypes:
◦ call opens 31st July ‘14- closes 30th September ‘14
◦ evaluation, formal agreements by 31st December ’14
◦ development: 1st January ‘15 …up to 31 December ‘15
Guidelines: time schedule proposal

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Demo application running on a PC
Web site active
Poster
Brochures
collaboration with other CAPS projects:
◦ iA4SI, Web-COSI, CAPS2020
Vilnius ICT 2013 Event

18. The platform

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24. Project Partners:
added value

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Strong expertise in EU and National project
coordination and management.
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Deep participation in the Future Internet PPP
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Since many years investigate intersections and
synergies between human, business and
technologies (ex. BRICKS living memory
experiences, BeAware project on sustainable
energy consumptions, all DICET projects on
participative and sustainable tourism, etc)
Engineering

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A no profit organisation, based in Berlin in
cooperation with Humboldt-Viadrina School of
Governance, Berlin based university dedicated to
social change issue
Expertise
 Social Innovation Methodology and Approach
 Trans-disciplinary playfield for learning about and
experimenting with novel forms of social
innovation
 Relationship with the Berlin system (incubator,
hubs, etc) for start-ups
EIPCM
- Social Innovation Lab

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located in several European Countries
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Public Funding and Innovation Management
Social Innovation Transfer
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Innovation Place platform
(www.innovationplace.eu): The Open Innovation
Platform supporting collaborative research
through Public funding (with more than 6.000
contacts)
PNO Consultants

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Keep in touch through:
◦ http://www.chest-project.eu/
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