Client / Funding programme:
Horizon Europe.
Call: HORIZON-EIE-2022-CONNECT-01-02
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Website: integercollab.eu
Start and end dates:
February 2023 – February 2025
AFEdemy role in the project:
AFEdemy has the task to support both the project’s communication tasks (WP5) and the capacity building activities (WP3). In this role, AFEdemy is responsible for developing so-called training pills that briefly and concisely convey the benefits of more intensive cooperation and practical implementation approaches to the various 4 Helix actors. In addition, AFEdemy will assist in creating the professional profile of the collaber and identifying stakeholders.
☐ Coordination
☒ Research
☒ Training
☒ Curriculum development
☐ e-Learning Platform
☒ Networking
☐ Policy recommendation
☐ Sustainability
Description
There are approximately 2 million social economy enterprises in Europe, representing 10% of all businesses in the EU. Achieving the triple transition “green, digital and social” demands a paramount effort for including, in a more decisive manner, social economy enterprises, social innovators and entrepreneurs in our EU innovation ecosystems.
INTEGER addresses the question, of how social innovation actors can be effectively integrated into European innovation ecosystems.
The project will focus on expanding existing European innovation ecosystems in Catalonia, Hamburg and Krakow using the 4 Helix Model. The current 3 Helix Model brings together the industry, academia and government, whereas the 4 Helix Model expands this interplay by adding social innovation and thus societal impact.
INTEGER creates socially sustainable innovation ecosystems in the pilot regions of Catalonia, Hamburg and Krakow with actors from the social innovation environment, industry, the government and academia. The aim is to develop improved support models for their communication and cooperation.
Here the project will work in different layers:
Objectives
Focused on challenge-driven promotion of healthy living and wellbeing, INTEGER will bring forward three innovations for the development of more robust, sustainable, inclusive and integrative EU innovation ecosystems:
Companies, associations, and organisations from the fields of state administration, social innovation, industry, and higher academia. symbolizing a synthesis following the quadruple helix model.
