CHEST Collective enHanced

Environment for Social Tasks Integrated Project

Objective ICT-2013.5.5 Collective Awareness Platforms for sustainability and Social Innovation

Francesco S. Nucci, Engineering

Project Identity Card

Title: CHEST: Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks

Instrument: Integrated Project

Mission:

Foster Social Innovation and sustainable cooperation through the provision of an open collective deliberation platform to support innovative ideas and initiatives with a seed finance and crowd-funding approach.

Partnership

Engineering SpA (IT): Management and Coordination:

PNO Group (UK): Visibility, Communication, Venture

EIPCM (DE): Social Innovation, Digital Media

CHEST Supporting Partners: more than 21, TRENTO-RISE Incubator, POLIMI, etc.

Budget: 2,950 k euro (2,500 open)

Duration: 30 months

Main Objectives

Engage a large base of organizations, networks, and programs that already operate successfully in the areas of social innovation, entrepreneurship, early stage business incubation, service design, and creativity.

◦ An effective Community has been started with more than 20 important organizations already involved as CHEST supporting partners;

Create a liquid information and social deliberation platform, based on a cooperative awareness approach and implemented on top of a broad spectrum of social media,

◦ Giving voice to communities bearing interests about hard-to-solve, high-impact social problems,

◦ promoting the emergence of innovative social innovation ventures that address those problems,

◦ allowing a transparent and collective testing and selection of social innovation proposals;

Open Calls

Launch and manage two rounds of open calls to distribute a consistent part of the project budget (around 2,5 Millions of euro); ◦ these funds will be allocate with a public completion for ideas on social

innovation,

Experiment with and measuring the effectiveness of innovative evaluation and co-funding schemes, including public assessment of proposals, crowd co-funding, and mixed expert/stakeholders evaluation.

Crowd-based process

Social innovation, Collective Awareness Platform and crowd-funding: a new promising synergy.

Cluster Collaboration

What we can do for you ?

◦ Coordination, Discussion, Events

◦ And last but not least: money

What you can do for us ?

◦ Exchange of Results, Communication channles, dissemination, etc

◦ And last but not least: ideas, people

What we are going to do togheter ?

◦ A new Social Innovation Cluster, success of our initiatives, more interest from the EC, community animation

◦ First Goal, a Networking session in Vilnius:

CHEST Supporting Partners

Supporters

The SUPPORTERS of the project are of two kinds:

1) interest-bearing communities and organizations that are active in a wide range of societal issues and can put their expertise to work in the definition of problem

2) social innovation operators in a large sense, higher education institutions, foundations, venture capital firms, business incubation and creativity networks, idea management companies, crowdsourcing software providers, who can contribute with their already existing programs and tools to the discovery, evaluation and co-funding of social innovation ideas.

Direct Beneficiares

The Direct Beneficiaries of the project are individuals, companies and organizations that

◦ not only look for funding original social innovation projects,

◦ but also wish to have their ideas field-tested by the large crowd of experts and interest bearers that will be gathered around the Project.

CHEST Criteria

Here below are listed our main criteria for the selection:

◦ 1. Social attitude

◦ 2. Multiply and leverage effects

◦ 3. Diversity

◦ 4. Open mind; that for us means flexibility and open innovation approach

and, last but not least,

◦ 5. Passion, passion and passion

Some examples

Social Organisation, no profit and NGOs

◦ Solidar B

◦ ARCI Cultura e Sviluppo IT

◦ Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance D

◦ Forum Terzo Settore IT

Educational and University

◦ City University

◦ La Sapienza

◦ Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

Business-oriented organisations and incubators

◦ TrentoRise Incubator

◦ PoliHUB Incubator

◦ Copenhagen Business School

Media and communication partner

CUbRIK Platform

CUbRIK

As a collateral aspect the Project will also promote the reuse of the CUBRIK crowdsourcing platform, as:

◦ 1) a means for effectively implementing the collective awareness approach to open call management for project proposals elicitation and evaluation;

◦ 2) as an asset made available to social innovation operators to accelerate the prototyping of their project and the field test with a broad audience of citizens and/or prospect customers reached over a wide range of social communication media.

Cubrik as a collab. Awareness Platform

◦ Cubrik has built a “dual-core” platform for processes implementing a harmonic cooperation of humans and machines

◦ A Cubrik “pipeline” consists of tasks: a task can be performed by a machine, by an individual, or by a crowd

◦ Cubrik can be interfaced with any social collaboration tool: social networks (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn already integrated), paid crowdsourcing markets (Microtask), deliberation tools

◦ Embedded in Cubrik is advanced support for crowd contribution quality monitoring and transparency

Cubrik architecture

Partner added value

Engineering

Strong expertise in EU and National project coordination and management.

Deep participation in the Future Internet PPP, in the vertical uses cases (Finseny and outsmart projects) , as well in the core Platform (FI-ware projects)

Since many years investigate intersections and synergies between human, business and technologies (ex. BRICKS living memory experiences, BeAware project on sustainable energy consumptions, DICET projects on participative and sustainable tourism, etc)

One of the two Italian Companies in the KIC EIT Lab in Trento

CUbRIK coordinator and responsible for the delivery of the crowdsearching CUbRIK platform.

EIPCM - Social Innovation Lab

A no profit organisation, based in Berlin in cooperation with Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Berlin based university dedicated to social change issue

Expertise

Social Innovation Methodology and Approach

Trans-disciplinary playfield for learning about and experimenting with novel forms of social innovation

Relationship with the Berlin system (incubator, hubs,etc) for start-ups

PNO Group

located in several European Countries (UK, NL, IT, BE, France, Germany Czech Rep, HU, SLO, RO)

Public Funding and Innovation Management

Social Innovation Transfer

A collaboration is under discussion with the Netherland Government to manage a seed capital fund of 10 Millions

Innovation Place platform (www.innovationplace.eu) : The Open Innovation Platform supporting collaborative research through Public funding (with more than 6.000 contacts)