Horizon 2020: Social Innovation Prize
Archived
Age
Aged 60+
Children (0-12)
environment
Health promotion
Health, wellbeing and sport
Human rights and equality
Medical conditions
organisational development
Racial equality
Refugees and asylum seekers
social enterprise
Sustainable energy
Antrim & Newtownabbey
Ards & North Down
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon
Belfast City
Causeway Coast and Glens
Derry City and Strabane
England
Europe and Russia
Fermanagh and Omagh
Great Britain
International
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Mid and East Antrim
Mid Ulster
Newry, Mourne and Down
Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Large (over £60,000)
Overview
Innovations are new or significantly improved goods, services, processes and methods; they are social if they are designed to benefit society rather than the indiv idual. Very often social challenges cannot be met with traditional recipes and approaches.
Horizon prizes are inducement prizes that offer a reward to whoever can most effectively meet a defined challenge. The aim is to engage communities to work towards a common goal, spur interest in a particular issue, attract new, dynamic innovators to an area, mobilise additional private investment for research and innovation, and stimulate novel, replicable solutions to the grand challenges, for the benefit of European citizens.
The five challenges are:
- Childhood obesity
- Ageing population
- Integration of immigrants in the labour market
- Women entrepreneurship and women-led enterprises
- Citizens for clean energy