Project Ahead flights to Athens for CHESS project’s Learning Session, a moment of consortium sharing of objectives and impacts.
On March 7th and 8th at Athens the Learning Session was held for the CHESS, Change Hubs for Ecosystemic Social Solution project.
The Learning Session was hosted at CERTH (Centre of Research and Technology Hellas) headquarters.and has reunited the seven partners from different countries across Europe, in order to share experieces acquired in this first year of work, throught the application of social innovation and co-design tools to tackle important social challenges (Blue economy, Climate Change, Unemployement, Integration of Migrants). These new knowledge will be part of an effective and new toolkit for innovative ecosystem activation.
In Italy, we have deepened the aspects of female and youth unemployement in southern Italy. The work we are carrying on, collaborative workshops in four Italian regions (Campania, Puglia, Calabria, Sicilia) internation meetings, is facilitating the knowledge of the innovative ecosystem and cooperation network creation between different stakeholders involved in the challenge. CHESS project aims to create new impact networks between innovators.
Topics of interest discussed during the Learning Session, were the impact already achieved and the ones desidered from the side of the different partners in their ecosystems.
The Learning Session has been an opportunity of analysis and research to improve selected tools already tested, in order that they can be shared and used between social innovators. One of the goals of the project is the dissemination of social innovation in mainstream discussion
Change Hubs for Ecosystemic Social Solutions (CHESS) project is funded by Horizon EIE 2022, in partenership withThe Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI) – Slovenia (Coordinator), Europos Socialinio Fondo Agentura (ESFA) – Lithuania, Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis (CERTH) – Greece, Technische Universität Dortmund (TUDO) – Germany, The International Society for Professional Innovation Management.(ISPIM) – UK, The Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) – UK
