CHEST
Collective enHanced
Environment for Social Tasks
Integrated Project
Objective ICT-2013.5.5 Collective Awareness Platforms
for sustainability and Social Innovation
Francesco S. Nucci, Engineering

Title: CHEST: Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks
Instrument: Integrated Project
Mission:
Foster Social Innovation and sustainable cooperation
through the provision of an open collective deliberation
platform to support innovative ideas and initiatives with a
seed finance and crowd-funding approach.
Partnership
Engineering SpA (IT): Management and Coordination:
PNO Group (UK): Visibility, Communication, Venture
EIPCM (DE): Social Innovation, Digital Media
CHEST Supporting Partners: more than 21, TRENTO-RISE
Incubator, POLIMI, etc.
Budget: 2,950 k euro (2,500 open)
Duration: 30 months
Project Identity Card

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Engage a large base of organizations, networks, and
programs that already operate successfully in the areas of
social innovation, entrepreneurship, early stage business
incubation, service design, and creativity.
◦ An effective Community has been started with more than 20
important organizations already involved as CHEST
supporting partners;
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Create a liquid information and social deliberation
platform, based on a cooperative awareness approach and
implemented on top of a broad spectrum of social media,
◦ Giving voice to communities bearing interests about hard-tosolve, high-impact social problems,
◦ promoting the emergence of innovative social innovation
ventures that address those problems,
◦ allowing a transparent and collective testing and selection of
social innovation proposals;
Main Objectives

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Launch and manage two rounds of open calls to
distribute a consistent part of the project budget (around
2,5 Millions of euro);
◦ these funds will be allocate with a public completion for ideas on social
innovation,
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Experiment with and measuring the effectiveness of
innovative evaluation and co-funding schemes,
including public assessment of proposals, crowd cofunding, and mixed expert/stakeholders evaluation.
Open Calls

Crowd-based process

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What we can do for you ?
◦ Coordination, Discussion, Events
◦ And last but not least: money
What you can do for us ?
◦ Exchange of Results, Communication channles,
dissemination, etc
◦ And last but not least: ideas, people
What we are going to do togheter ?
◦ A new Social Innovation Cluster, success of our
initiatives, more interest from the EC, community
animation
◦ First Goal, a Networking session in Vilnius:
Social innovation, Collective Awareness Platform
and crowd-funding: a new promising synergy.
Cluster Collaboration

CHEST Supporting
Partners

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The SUPPORTERS of the project are of two kinds:
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1) interest-bearing communities and organizations that
are active in a wide range of societal issues and can put
their expertise to work in the definition of problem
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2) social innovation operators in a large sense, higher
education institutions, foundations, venture capital firms,
business incubation and creativity networks, idea
management companies, crowdsourcing software
providers, who can contribute with their already existing
programs and tools to the discovery, evaluation and cofunding of social innovation ideas.
Supporters

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The Direct Beneficiaries of the project are
individuals, companies and organizations that
◦ not only look for funding original social
innovation projects,
◦ but also wish to have their ideas field-tested by
the large crowd of experts and interest bearers
that will be gathered around the Project.
Direct Beneficiares

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Here below are listed our main criteria for the selection:
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1. Social attitude
2. Multiply and leverage effects
3. Diversity
4. Open mind; that for us means flexibility and open
innovation approach
and, last but not least,
◦ 5. Passion, passion and passion
CHEST Criteria

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Social Organisation, no profit and NGOs
◦ Solidar B
◦ ARCI Cultura e Sviluppo IT
◦ Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance D
◦ Forum Terzo Settore IT
Educational and University
◦ City University
◦ La Sapienza
◦ Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
Business-oriented organisations and incubators
◦ TrentoRise Incubator
◦ PoliHUB Incubator
◦ Copenhagen Business School
Media and communication partner
Some examples

CUbRIK Platform

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As a collateral aspect the Project will also promote the
reuse of the CUBRIK crowdsourcing platform, as:
◦ 1) a means for effectively implementing the collective
awareness approach to open call management for
project proposals elicitation and evaluation;
◦ 2) as an asset made available to social innovation
operators to accelerate the prototyping of their project
and the field test with a broad audience of citizens
and/or prospect customers reached over a wide range of
social communication media.
CUbRIK

◦ Cubrik has built a “dual-core” platform for processes
implementing a harmonic cooperation of humans and
machines
◦ A Cubrik “pipeline” consists of tasks: a task can be
performed by a machine, by an individual, or by a crowd
◦ Cubrik can be interfaced with any social collaboration tool:
social networks (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn already integrated),
paid crowdsourcing markets (Microtask), deliberation tools
◦ Embedded in Cubrik is advanced support for crowd
contribution quality monitoring and transparency
Cubrik as a collab. Awareness Platform

Cubrik architecture

Partner added value

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Strong expertise in EU and National project coordination
and management.
Deep participation in the Future Internet PPP, in the
vertical uses cases (Finseny and outsmart projects) , as
well in the core Platform (FI-ware projects)
Since many years investigate intersections and synergies
between human, business and technologies (ex. BRICKS
living memory experiences, BeAware project on
sustainable energy consumptions, DICET projects on
participative and sustainable tourism, etc)
One of the two Italian Companies in the KIC EIT Lab in
Trento
CUbRIK coordinator and responsible for the delivery of
the crowdsearching CUbRIK platform.
Engineering

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A no profit organisation, based in Berlin in cooperation with
Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Berlin based
university dedicated to social change issue
Expertise
 Social Innovation Methodology and Approach
 Trans-disciplinary playfield for learning about and
experimenting with novel forms of social innovation
 Relationship with the Berlin system (incubator, hubs,etc)
for start-ups
EIPCM - Social Innovation Lab

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located in several European Countries (UK, NL, IT, BE,
France, Germany Czech Rep, HU, SLO, RO)
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Public Funding and Innovation Management
Social Innovation Transfer
A collaboration is under discussion with the Netherland
Government to manage a seed capital fund of 10 Millions
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Innovation Place platform (www.innovationplace.eu) : The
Open Innovation Platform supporting collaborative research
through Public funding (with more than 6.000 contacts)
PNO Group