CAPS Concertation meeting

CHEST Coordinator: Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.

Project objectives and expected outputs •  Funding and supporting about 60 projects in different

phases (ideas, prototypes, go-to-market products) in the fields of Digital Social Innovation, such as: –  Knowledge Society and Education –  Social Inclusion, Human Rights and Equality –  Civic Empowerment and Community Engagement –  Environment and Sustainability –  etc…

•  Supporting transformation of the novel ideas selected into viable added value social initiatives, leveraging synergies among themselves as well as with other CAPS initiatives

•  Assessing the impact of the selected projects through the standardized Social Reporting Standard

•  Developing a Best-Practice for the processes of Ideation, Selection, Funding, Supporting and Monitoring of initiatives in Digital Social Innovation

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Project partners

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Project Gantt chart

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Project website – events & media •  Development of dedicated project web site: http://www.chest-project.eu/ •  Definition of key stakeholder groups from across the EU (basis for

contact following the launch of the calls •  Development of dedicated paper and e-brochure, and poster •  Promotion of the project at relevant events:

√  ICT2013 in Vilnius √  Photonex 2013 on behalf of EPIC √  Innovation grant workshop on behalf of the Enterprise Europe

Network (UK) √  Rushlight Conference (2014), the UK’s leading event for clean

technologies •  Publications

ü  Feature in PNO’s innovationplace January newsletter (9000 registered recipients). Follow up feature dedicated to Call 1 to be launched start of Feb 2014

ü  Email sent to 2000 community reporters across the EU advertising the project and launch of the first open call

ü  Feature in a number of online journals and blogs including Greenwise one of the UK’s leading forums aimed at the green economy

ü  Many other in the coming days (Call 1 just open)

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Proposals for synergies between CAPS projects •  Collective initiatives (fostered and supported by such

projects as D-CENT, CATALYST, DecarboNet , Sci Café 2.0, etc.) could come out with project proposals looking for funding through the CHEST competitive calls

•  Projects selected for CHEST funding could specifically benefit from the knowledge generated in one of the CAPS Research Projects for Grass Roots Experiments and Pilots when they have a similar thematic scope

•  CHEST could certainly take advantage of visibility in other project platforms

•  CHEST could align its approach for impact assessment to Ia4Si’s one

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Thank you for your attention

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