Social Innovation Market 2025

Tracking What Matters: A data framework to drive decisions and prove long-term impact

Generation systematically tracks learner outcomes up to five years post-programme to improve quality, tailor support, and ensure lasting impact, setting a new standard for accountability in VET.

Organisation: Generation

Country: Ireland

Social Impact Generator: Transforming a Buffer Zone Container into a Peace Innovation Hub in Europe’s Last Divided Capital

Peace innovation hub in Europe’s last divided capital Cyprus using entrepreneurship and tech to unite divided communities, empower youth, and drive sustainable, inclusive change.

Organisation: SocialTech Lab

Country: Cyprus

Long term unemployed territories

TZCLD seeks to demonstrate that it is possible, territorially, without significant cost to the community, to create jobs adapted to individuals based on socially and ecologically useful activities.

Organisation: Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée

Country: France

Bureaux du Cœur

Bureaux du Coeur aspires to contribute to creating a society in which no one is homeless, thanks to the solidarity of companies and their employees.

Organisation: Bureaux du Cœur

Country: France

Secret Sound

Secret Sound is a startup specializing in managing audiovisual accessibility for deaf and deafblind people. This helps break down barriers to cultural access.

Organisation: Secret Sound

Country: Spain

Social Cooperative Humana Nova – Working Integration in Textile Waste Management

Working integration in textile waste management & responsible textile production.

Organisation: Social Cooperative Humana Nova

Country: Croatia

ICT-BASED DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS AND KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT

We developed an online system for measuring cognitive control functions of children with special educational needs. This system provides fast and accurate diagnoses, and is enjoyable for participants.

Organisation: Eötvös Loránd University, National Laboratory for Social Innovations

Country: Hungary

Experiences of Social Inclusion Scale (ESIS)

A tool for measuring the experience of social inclusion and facilitating decision-making, evaluation and research promoting social inclusion

Organisation: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Country: Finland

CEO-Y: Creating Employment Opportunities for Youth

CEO-Y, a project focused on strengthening skills, offering new experiences, 70-day mobility, and enriching the resumes of 30 young NEETs to contribute to their social and labor inclusion.

Organisation: Arrabal-AID

Country: Spain

C.O.P.E. Capabilities, Opportunities, Places and Engagement

A holistic, person-centered intervention using Social Prescribing and Link Workers to support young people in NEET situations in Italy and Portugal through a relational proximity community approach.

Organisation: Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione

Country: Italy

Competence Network “Women’s Future- Digitalization-New Work”

The project innovatively combines two opportunities for women in rural regions: Digitalization & New Work by establishing a competence network with participation of the target group and partnerships.

Organisation: Women Foundation Steyr

Country: Austria

EDKI – innovative crayons

Innovative crayons that support children’s finemotor skill by combining play with effective exercises

Organisation: The Regional Centre for Social Policy in Cracow

Country: Poland

ubbu

ubbu is an edtech solution that teaches computer science to children, integrating STEAM and the SDGs in the platform activities and supporting teachers with ready-to-use, curriculum-aligned content.

Organisation: Unicorn Treasure

Country: Portugal

Solidary Basic Income (SBI)

Providing long-term unemployed individuals with socially impactful jobs, career training, and support.

Organisation: Berlin Senate Administration of Labour, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Antidiscrimination (SenASGIVA)

Country: Germany

SenjoroGO

SenjoroGO is an IT system that helps to manage home care process. It tracks workers work time, activities and helps to manage schedules as well as automatically generates needed reports.

Organisation: National Institute for Social Integration, Senjoro

Country: Lithuania