ESF-SI-2023-NCC-01-0001
Boosting Initiatives & Resources to Develop Social Innovation
BIRDS is one of the five projects supported under the Call on building-up and consolidating the capacities of national competence centres for social innovation, launched under the Social Innovation+ initiative. The call contributes to:
- Enhancement of professionalisation and further development of NCCs that already exist or are being created in the EU Member States which participated in the 2020 call;
- Creation of NCCs in the Member States where they were not created under the 2020 call.
The BIRDS project has brought together four European countries: France, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Encompassing non-profit entities, universities, and public bodies, the diversity of the NCCs profiles in the consortium promises a rich tapestry of perspectives, enhancing both the content and the working methodology of the project.
During three years (June 2024-June 2027) NCCs in the BIRDS consortium engage in activities on:
- Building and continuously improving the professional capacities on national competence centres for supporting social innovation;
- Developing and nurturing sustainable relationships, networks, collaborations, synergies and learning partnerships;
- Creating, developing and operating a resource centre and a hub for social innovation;
- Facilitating and supporting social innovation initiatives;
- Raising awareness and providing guidance and training;
- Disseminating information on the available funding;
- Mobilising and empowering stakeholders to develop and continuously improve policies and actions for supporting social innovations.
Expected outputs at the national level:
- Fully operational NCC serving as a local hub of expertise, professional resources, partnership, and development within their respective countries;
- A national strategy and action plan.
Expected outputs at the transnational level:
- Professional transnational networks and working groups for mutual learning, facilitation in the transnational replication / mainstreaming / scaling-up of social innovation initiatives.
Funding: 1,491,049 Eur