Nesta and the Office for Civil Society: Click, Connect, Learn (UK) This fund supports innovations that use digital technology to enable volunteers to tutor disadvantaged pupils in order to improve their grades at school. The aim is to help organisations develop or expand scalable models of online volunteer-led tutoring, by offering grants of between £75,000 […]
There are many events taking place across Europe in 2017 that may be of interest to the digital social innovation community, please click here for a list of events, dates, locations and links to the official websites
There are many events taking place across Europe in the last part of 2016 that may be of interest to the digital social innovation community, please click here for a list of events, dates, locations and links to the official websites
Icelandic non-profit organisation Citizens Foundation received CHEST Call 3 funding to develop “Active Citizen”, which takes civic participation to the next level by empowering citizens with their own artificial intelligence algorithms and connecting to open big data. Individuals can have their say on the decisions affecting them and also define the political agenda or top […]
Italian innovator Pasquale Donadio received CHEST funding for the “YouSense” project, which aims to allow all European citizens to self-monitor air pollution in their daily life and direct environment, and share this data through affordable devices with a linked portal and smart phone app. Device prototypes were designed and built with feedback from user groups, […]
Macroom-e, an Irish community enterprise focused initiative, received CHEST Call 3 funding for the “SourceIT” project, which is an innovative digital solution incorporating GIS tools to support existing and new enterprises, both social and commercial, which have a specific focus on the reuse and recycling of materials, in locating unwanted resources/waste materials. SourceIT allows these […]
The Polytechnic University of Milan’s Department for Electronic Information & Bioengineering won CHEST Call 3 funding for the “MountainWatch” project. They have successfully developed and tested (both laboratory and outdoor) an environmental monitoring platform with an augmented reality camera and image processing algorithm for mountain peak detection and processing mountain photos. MountainWatch will enhance the […]
SchulePLUS, a German SME, were selected for CHEST Call 3 funding to build an innovative matching platform for schools and their external partners ,that helps students to identify their own strengths and select internships accordingly, by developing a mobile web-app that provides users with a range of scenarios and the ability to take a test […]
SchulePLUS is an innovative matching platform for schools and their external partners. Their team noticed that there is a real need for supporting pupils in their practical vocational orientation. In order to meet these needs, SchulePLUS identified the opportunity to develop a convenient app for pupils to discover their interests and talents, then better understand […]
Open Knowledge Belgium has set up a first version of the W4P template and found the perfect project owners to try asking for what they needed. From 11 April to 11 May, the Spitsgids project had just 1 month to collect their resources. See the project page on: https://spitsgids.be/ The project: Spitsgids (rough translation: ‘rush […]