Social Innovation Match Database
The Social Innovation Match (SIM) database is a new tool to promote the transfer and/or scaling-up of social innovation across Europe.
Any organisation can find inspirational examples and organisations with whom can work in the future.
Social innovation examples gathered in the SIM have a wide coverage: they can be funded from public or private sources and can be local, regional, national or European. The thematic focus is around the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) investment areas, i.e., employment, education and training initiatives and social inclusion.
The database can help interested stakeholders:
- Showcase their social innovation examples;
- Search for social innovation projects developed and tested in other countries;
- identify other organisations whose work is a source of inspiration;
- search for potential partners for European calls for transnational projects.
The SIM includes:
- Social innovation initiatives from across Europe have the possibility to filter initiatives by country, type of initiative, theme of organisation, level of action, status and source of funding.
- Social innovation organisations from across Europe and the possibility to filter organisations by country, level of action, theme of organisation and type of organisation.
More than 150 examples of European social innovation are being uploaded to the database.
You can upload a case study on the SIM database.
The database receives both direct proposals by project owners and proposals on invitation by managing authorities or intermediate bodies. All the accepted proposals are validated before publication, and the proposal's scope, appropriateness, and quality are checked.
Proposals on transnational projects and/or from EU-level organisations can be validated at the EU level, and this task will be given to the future European Competence Centre for Social Innovation.
One validating organisation per country will validate local, regional, and national projects. This way, the validation occurs closer to the organisations involved, and the validator has better access to relevant context information.
The average duration of the validation process is 15 working days.
You may also find more information about SIM on the SIM fact sheet file.
In case of any problem or question regarding SIM, please get in touch with the European Competence Centre for Social Innovation by e-mail at SIM@esf.lt.
