87. Social Challenges Innovation Platform (SCHIP)

Socialchallenges.eu is an open Platform on social Innovation, funded by EU H2020, which adopted a challenge-based innovation approach to solve societal and environmental local problems. Among the Platform objectives can be cited: supporting European stakeholders (public, private, non-profit) in defining and prioritizing social and societal challenges; encouraging a broad participation of social innovators, social entrepreneurs, start-ups, and SMEs to identify, co-develop and test concrete solution to these needs. The Platform was aimed at creating a social innovation marketplace, where Public Authorities, Private Companies, or Third Sector Organisations were able to post and give visibility to social and environmental challenges they wanted to solve. Different “Challenger owners” (public, private, NGOs, etc.) uploaded their social challenges and were supported by the project to find innovative solutions.

Part of interest: See, in particular, the challenges related to health and disabilities and those related to aging.

Target groups: Policymakers, RPOs, Innovation Business