Application Deadline: 11 June 2024 (17:00:00).
Applications are now open for the 2024 European Social Innovation Competition. The European Social Innovation Competition (EUSIC) aims at stimulating the potential of social innovation to provide solutions to societal challenges and to foster sustainable and inclusive growth in Europe. This competition looks for new entrepreneurial solutions responding to the most burning social needs, creating social relationships and enabling new collaborations in an innovative way and bringing effective solutions to systemic social challenges.
Requirements
- This competition is open, among others, to non-profit and for-profit organisations, such as entrepreneurs and social enterprises, corporate responsibility departments of private companies, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), educational institutions and universities.
Eligible countries:
In order to be eligible, the applicant has to be:
– A natural person or a legal entity established in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, (OCTs)) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe.Â
Other eligibility conditions:
– Winners of all categories, both from the Challenge and the Impact Prizes, of previous editions of the European Social Innovation Competition are not eligible.
– Applicants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize CANNOT receive a second prize for the same activities.
Prize:
- The competition will directly support the three solutions that best tackle the defined challenge with a prize of EUR 75.000, EUR 50.000 and EUR 25.000 for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ranked winners.
More Info: European Social Innovation Competition
