EaSI (2020 – 2022)

This study takes stock of the strengths/weaknesses, innovative content, methodological design, EU value added, impact on the policy field and potential for up-scaling of social experimentations carried out under the EaSI Programme. One objective is to identify the favourable conditions and factors hindering the development and mainstreaming of the social innovations/experimentations. Another objective is to analyse potential synergies between the future two ESF+ strands, as well as to provide guidelines for appropriate award criteria, governance relationships and practical mechanisms for facilitating the upscaling and transfer of successful projects tested under the direct management into the shared management. Further activities covered under this tender concern the dissemination of the results of the social experimentations financed through the EaSI Programme, including the organisation of a major closing seminar. 1) assessing the results of the projects supported by seven EaSI specific calls for proposals addressing social experimentation, 2) supporting the communication and dissemination of the project results, 3) preparing a practical methodological guide on social innovation for future project promoters and 4) organising a 1 1/2-day closing and dissemination seminar focusing on the social experimentation projects.