SI-Mission-Facility kick-off meeting happening in Vienna

Hosted by ZSI, the project partners meet in Vienna on July 3-4 to jointly start the first activities of the SIMF. Whereas the first day focusses on the project-internal administration, distribution of roles and responsibilities for each partner, the second day already marks the first public event of our project. We will gather social innovation stakeholders for a half-day launch event at Impact Hub Vienna to introduce the rationale, objectives and initial activities of SIMF.

During the event, insights from European and national mission implementation and experiences from Social innovation (funding) practice will be shared. 

With that, we aim to open a dialogue on how to better connect R&I ecosystems, (social) policy actors, funders, investors and civil society to enhance mission-oriented policy-delivery through social innovation. Selected speakers will present the five EU Missions, the way how these missions are implemented in Austria, and how social innovations are enabled in Austria and across the EU by the Austrian Competence Centre for SI. An open fishbowl discussion will conclude the thematic part of this event.