ESF-SI-2023-NCC-01-0005

INSISST is one of the five projects supported under the Call on building-up and consolidating the capacities of national competence centres for social innovation, launched under the Social Innovation+ initiative. The call contributes to:

• Enhancement of professionalisation and further development of  NCCs that already exist or are being created in the EU Member States which participated in the 2020 call;
• Creation of NCCs in the Member States where they were not created under the 2020 call.

The overall objective of the INSISST project, which is composed by representatives from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic, Ireland and Poland, is to strengthen the ecosystem and environment for social innovation, by strengthening opportunities for networking and collaboration between public authorities, academia, private and third sector organisations around identified and priority societal challenges.

The INSISST project unites strengths and expertise at national and transnational level to scale promising social innovations, ultimately contributing to the systemic transformation.

During three years (June 2024-June 2027) NCCs in the INSISST consortium engage in activities on: 

• Building and continuously improving the professional capacities on national competence centres for supporting social innovation;
• Developing and nurturing sustainable relationships, networks, collaborations, synergies and learning partnerships;
• Creating, developing and operating a resource centre and a hub for social innovation;
• Facilitating and supporting social innovation initiatives;
• Raising awareness and providing guidance and training;
• Disseminating information on the available funding;
• Mobilising and empowering stakeholders to develop and continuously improve policies and actions for supporting social innovations.

Expected outputs at the national level: 

• Fully operational NCC serving as a local hub of expertise, professional resources, partnership, and development within their respective countries;
• A national strategy and action plan.

Expected outputs at the transnational level: 

• Professional transnational networks and working groups for mutual learning, facilitation in the transnational replication / mainstreaming / scaling-up of social innovation initiatives.  

Funding: 1,885,946 Eur