Matching Social Challenges to Entrepreneurial Innovation

Social Challenges was developed originally by META with EBN and Impact Hub with the funding from the European Union to test the concept of an Innovation Platform.

The EU provided start-ups with a grant worth €30,000 to develop their idea in combination with the six months’ mentoring provided by a pool of experts from META and EBN and Impact Hub networks’ members.

This European project closed in 2019, but if you want to learn about the Social Challenges Innovation Platform initiative, watch our video below.

Socialchallenges.eu is a platform aiming at creating a marketplace where actual social challenges can meet powerful and innovative solutions. A space where the work among different players make the European Social Ecosystem vibrant and collaborative. Where a challenge is transformed into a new business opportunity.

The Platform supports committed Public Authorities, Private Companies, Third Sector Organisations in defining, prioritising social and environmental challenges, and uploading them onto the platform.

It encourages the participation of social innovators, startups and SMEs to identify, fund, co-develop and test concrete solutions to these needs.

Discover the local ecosystems available online and get involved!

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