Spark Social Enterprise

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A France - Belgium - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (Les Deux Mers / Two seas / Twee Zeeën)

Date of latest update: 2024-12-17

Description

Description (EN):

The overall objective of this project is to improve the capacity of social enterprises to develop and deliver sustainable and high impact innovations. Currently there is no methodology for the consistent harnessing of sustainable social enterprise innovation and a lack of joint tools and services for their development. The expected change our project will make will be an improvement in the framework conditions for innovation through enhanced cross-border cooperation, increase in innovation partnerships and R&D, and new and more effective models and tools for delivery of social innovation.

Achievements (EN):

The Spark Project has seen the successful completion of pioneering research led by University of Brighton which has resulted in the 'Social Enterprise Innovation Roadmap' document - a user friendly document that social enterprises can use to evaluate, stimulate and grow their own capacity for sustainable innovation. The documents outlines the framework conditions neccesary for sustainable innovation and provides case studies that highlight innovation in practice. To support the Innovation Roadmap UoB has also produced a number of tools such as a version of the Innovation Roadmap specific to start up SEs, and also the 1-2-3 Go! methodology which has been disseminated through workshops and 1-2-1 coaching sessions as part of the Accelerator Programme (WP2). The research also led to the development of the Strategy and Action plan - a 'living document' whereby stakeholders and support agencies can 'cross-furtalise' their plans and commitments to grow the ecosystem and support for the social enterprises. Stakeholders from all sectors are also actively engaging in the Social Enterprise Innovation Accelerator Network. The membership of this online community has grown to ***. The network provides opportunities for the exchange of skills, knowledget and support through cross border cooperation. The Social Enterprise Innovation Accelerator Programme has now completed and has had a huge impact with three cross boarder Safaris, a programme of expert coaching sessions for SEs to focus on their own individual innovation journey and the programme culminated in a very well recieved Conference in Brussels which provided opportunities for those social enterprises involved in the Open Innovation Group (OIG) to present their learning and development and an opportunity for stakeholders, support agencies and social enterprises from the three cross border nations to begin discussing and exploring how Open Innovation can further be developed in the 2 Seas area. We are just about to launch a fantasitc webportal for start up social enterprises which will provide expert and accessible information through a series of 19 modules - unlike anything that currently exists for new start up social enterprises!

Website: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Delivered Outputs (EN):

The project’s main outputs are: ● A Cross Border strategy and action plan to improve capacity of SEs to deliver sustainable and high impact innovation ● A Cross Border Social Enterprise Sustainable Innovation Accelerator Network ● A Sustainable Innovation Framework for Social Enterprises ● An Innovation Accelerator Programme ● A Social Enterprise Start Up Sustainable Innovation Programme Check the “Outputs” section below to download related material and see “Main Achievements” section for further information about the achieved results.

Thematic information

Innovation capacity and awareness-raising

Specific Objective: Improve the framework conditions for the delivery of innovation, in relation to smart specialisation

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: University of Brighton

Department: CENTRIM

Address: Mithras House, Lewes Road, BN2 4AT Brighton, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 1 151 956.99

ERDF budget: EUR 691 174.19

Seinwezen Beheer

Name: Seinwezen Beheer

Department: Central

Address: P.O. Box 5171 , 2000 CD Haarlem, Netherlands

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 395 527.61

ERDF budget: EUR 237 316.56

DePunt

Name: DePunt

Department: Business Advice

Address: Kerkstraat 108, 9050 Gentbrugge, Belgium

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 179 660.70

ERDF budget: EUR 107 796.41

Sociale Innovatie Fabriek

Name: Sociale Innovatie Fabriek

Address: Ravensteingalerij 28, 1000 Brussel, Belgium

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 256 918.45

ERDF budget: EUR 154 151.06

West Sussex County Council

Name: West Sussex County Council

Department: Economic Development

Address: West Street, PO19 1RH Chichester, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 384 668.84

ERDF budget: EUR 230 801.31

The Platform Social Enterprise Limited

Name: The Platform Social Enterprise Limited

Department: Brighton and Hove Social Enterprise Network

Address: 9 Russell Place, BN1 2RG Brighton, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 585 641.19

ERDF budget: EUR 351 384.71

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Summary

Project name (EN): Spark Social Enterprise

Project acronym: SSEnt

Project start date: 2016-01-01

Project end date: 2020-03-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 954 373.78

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 772 624.24

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 0.60%

Co-financing sources:

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Project’s final reports

Spark Social Enterprise Evaluation

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Project’s final report

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2020-11-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Reports

Guide For Setting Up Social Enterprise Innovation Accelerator Events And Networks

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

Innovation In Social Enterprises Findings From Research In Belgium, The Netherlands And Uk

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Presentations

Innovation Roadmap

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Workbook For Start-Up Social Enterprises

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Workbook for established Social Enterprises

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

Innovation Journey - John Bessant, University Of Exeter

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-01-28

Languages: en

Social Business Models - Jan Van Betten, Nudge

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-01-28

Languages: en

Stakeholder Mapping - Ido De Vries

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-01-28

Languages: en

Prototyping - Maxime Bouckaert, Koalect

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: nl, en

Sales And Marketing - Vicki Hughes, Fugu Pr

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-01-28

Languages: en

The Good Pitch - Ruth Anslow, Hisbe Food

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-01-28

Languages: en

Growing And Scaling, Arnoud Raskin, Streetwize - Mobile School

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-02-12

Languages: nl, en

Finance Mix - Fiona Ras, The Platform

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-01-28

Languages: en

Non Monetary Resources - Suzy Maes, Troeven

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: nl, en

Beneficiairies - Riet Abrahams, Beestig Wijs

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: nl, en

Measure And Manage Impact - Edith Kroese, Avance Impact

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: nl, en

Impact Communication - Marieke Hart, Thuisafgehaald

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: nl, en

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A France - Belgium - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (Les Deux Mers / Two seas / Twee Zeeën)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2024-12-17

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

82 / 82 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

886 / 886 (100%)

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Spark Social Enterprise

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