SEMPRE Accelerators for Service Co-Creation

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Date of latest update: 2023-06-16

Description

Description (EN):

SEMPRE Accelerators is an extension of the project SEMPRE – Social Empowerment in Rural Areas. In SEMPRE, the partners compiled and tested empowerment tools that can be used by social service providers to assess service needs among disadvantaged groups and initiate co-creation processes that lead to new social services. The application of these tools resulted in around 30 micro projects in which users played an active role and became co-producers of social services. While the focus of SEMPRE was the development of business ideas with tools such as the social business model canvas or the theory of change, the extension stage will go further. The partners will apply additional support mechanisms to accelerate the growth and development of eight of the most promising micro projects and turn them into successful, self-sustaining social start-ups that consistently offer services and/or products on local and regional markets of the Baltic Sea Region. To this end, “accelerator teams” will be formed in the partner regions. Each accelerator team consists of representatives of the micro projects and established service providers. The teams will pool the ideas and experiential knowledge of the service users and the professional know-how of the social workers in order to overcome such challenges as setting up stable and efficient management and leadership structures, extending the range or improving the quality of the offered services, acquiring financing and involving more service users in operation and management of the start-up. The project will thus create eight good practice examples of dynamic and successful social start-ups that enrich the social service landscape and take pressure off established service providers and public authorities who face increasingly difficult framework conditions for service provision in rural areas. In order to make the know-how gained in the accelerator teams accessible and usable also for social service providers outside the project partnership, the project will enhance three main outputs of the original SEMPRE project: The Empowerment Handbook for social workers will be amended with a chapter on tools to foster the growth and stability of social start-ups. The organisational roadmap for leaders of organisations in social services will be enhanced with a description of how to organise mixed service user/service provider teams and apply job shadowing in order to strengthen user involvement in social services. And the Guidebook for Empowerment Training will reflect on the experiences made in the practical application of the action learning approach that was developed in the SEMPRE project and is now applied in the accelerator teams. One additional output of the extension stage project is a framework for a more inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem. Its objective is to sensitise decision-makers responsible for innovation support schemes and funding programmes for the potentials and needs of disadvantaged entrepreneurs.

Achievements (EN):

From initiative to real business: The project SEMPRE Accelerators aimed to improve the social service infrastructure by empowering members of disadvantaged groups such as single parents, the elderly or migrants participate in the design and delivery of social services. Institutional capacity building of social service providers was essential for this process to adapt work methods and instruments and successfully manage organisational change to involve users of social services in the co-creation process. Therefore, the project used the experiential knowledge of the members of disadtantaged groups and the professional know-how of the social workers to accelerate the transformation of eight social initiatives into fully-fledged social start-ups. The skills that the project enhanced cover entrepreneurship, management, performance improvement, leadership, marketing and financial management. Some of the social start-ups developed stable and formalised structures, while others succeeded in extending their social service portfolio. As side effects, the new businesses in rural areas paved the way for job creation, increase in social capital, inclusive growth and transfer of experiences. Concrete examples inspire: Among the examples of how marginalised and vulnerable groups got engaged are: an inclusive stop-over coffee shop managed by disadvantaged young people in Liepa (Latvia); a regional social service for people with mental difficulties getting a voice in society and being able to express their needs, so-called “Hear Me Out” initiative in Esbjerg (Denmark); a social platform for single parents established as a non-profit organisation that offers workplaces for single parents in Jurbarkas (Lithuania); a dog care service founded and run by people in challenging life situations (e.g. difficulties in entering labor market) and with mental disabilities in Luleå (Sweden). Training and peer learning in accelerator teams: To strengthen the empowerment process, the project gathered the participating organisations and established “accelerator teams” involving social service users on the one hand, and social services providers on the other hand. Through the exchange, co-development and peer learning, the teams addressed the jointly identified needs, obstacles and possibilities to overcome such challenges as setting up stable and efficient management and leadership structures, extending the range or improving the quality of the offered services, acquiring financing and involving more service users in operation and management of the start-up. The process was also facilitated by external experts helping to streamline the actions, initiatives and solutions. In addition, the project ensured that peer learning would also happen within a transnational framework, when accelerator teams exchanged their experiences across borders. The feedback from the exchange served as a basis for a review of the earlier publications, namely the empowerment handbook for social workers, the organisational roadmap for leaders in social services and the guidebook on empowerment training and development of recommendations for an inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem. https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/sempre-accelerators/

Website: http://www.sempre-accelerators.eu

Delivered Outputs (EN): Eight mature social start-ups Recommendations for an inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem Revised SEMPRE Empowerment Handbook Revised SEMPRE Organisational Roadmap Revised Training Guidebook

Thematic information

SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: ‘Non-technological innovation’: To advance the Baltic Sea Region performance in non-technological innovation based on increased capacity of innovation actors

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 (9)

Lead Partner: Diakonisches Werk Schleswig-Holstein, Landesverband der Inneren Mission e.V.

Address: Kanalufer 48, 24768 Rendsburg, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.diakonie-sh.de

Total budget: EUR 272 587.65

ERDF budget: EUR 204 440.73

University College Syddanmark

Name: University College Syddanmark

Department: Development and Research

Address: Degnevej 16, 6705 Esbjerg Ø, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ucsyd.dk

Total budget: EUR 140 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 105 000.00

Wirtschaftsakademie Schleswig-Holstein GmbH

Name: Wirtschaftsakademie Schleswig-Holstein GmbH

Department: Kiel branch

Address: Hans-Detlev-Prien-Str. 10, 24106 Kiel, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.wak-sh.de

Total budget: EUR 133 528.00

ERDF budget: EUR 100 146.00

Sunderby folkhögskola

Name: Sunderby folkhögskola

Address: Kråkbergsvägen 7, 95442 S Sunderbyn, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sunderbyfolkhogskola.se

Total budget: EUR 107 463.00

ERDF budget: EUR 80 597.25

VšĮ “Liuteronų diakonija”

Name: VšĮ “Liuteronų diakonija”

Address: Vokieciu 20, 01130 Vilnius, Lithuania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.ldiakonija.puslapiai.lt

Total budget: EUR 89 986.00

ERDF budget: EUR 76 488.10

Vidzemes Augstskola

Name: Vidzemes Augstskola

Department: Knowledge and Technology Centre

Address: Cēsu iela 4, LV-4201 Valmiera, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.va.lv

Total budget: EUR 100 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 85 000.00

Liepājas Diakonijas centrs

Name: Liepājas Diakonijas centrs

Address: Fr. Brivzemnieka iela 54, 3401 Liepaja, Latvia

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 69 505.00

ERDF budget: EUR 59 079.25

EELK Diakoonia ja Ühiskonnatöö Sihtasutus

Name: EELK Diakoonia ja Ühiskonnatöö Sihtasutus

Address: Kiriku plats 3, 10130 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 85 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 72 250.00

Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение науки Федеральный исследовательский центр "Карельский научный центр Российской академии наук" (КарНЦ РАН)

Name: Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение науки Федеральный исследовательский центр "Карельский научный центр Российской академии наук" (КарНЦ РАН)

Address: Pushkinskaya St., 11 , 185910 Petrozavodsk, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.krc.karelia.ru/

Total budget: EUR 94 972.00

ENI budget: EUR 80 726.20

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Summary

Project name (EN): SEMPRE Accelerators for Service Co-Creation

Project acronym: SEMPRE Accelerators

Project start date: 2019-08-01

Project end date: 2021-07-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 093 041.65

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 863 727.53

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 79.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 783 001.33.
ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 80 726.20.

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.

Brochures / magazines / manuals

Recommendations for an Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: http://www.interreg-baltic.eu/home.html

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2021-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Towards Innovative Social Service Provision in the Baltic Sea Region - Policy Recommendations

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.sempre-accelerators.eu/results

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2021-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Books

Empowerment – Making it happen - A handbook on user involvement in social service design and delivery

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Book

Data source: https://www.sempre-accelerators.eu/results

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2021-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Practicing User Involvement - An Organisational Roadmap for Social Service Providers

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Book

Data source: https://www.sempre-accelerators.eu/results

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2021-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Guidebook for Empowerment Training

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Book

Data source: https://www.sempre-accelerators.eu/results

Publication date: 2022-11-11

Document date: 2021-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

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2023-06-16

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200 / 200 (100%)

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2 025 / 2 025 (100%)

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SEMPRE Accelerators for Service Co-Creation

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