Have you heard the latest news? The latest edition of the annual funding toolkit has been released! This new funding toolkit from the European Social Innovation Competition has been designed specifically to help early stage social innovators get their projects off the ground.
The toolkit takes interested innovators through all steps, from laying the groundwork, how to access funding, early-stage finance tools and providers, specific EU funding opportunities and all the way through to next steps once funding is acquired. All information is mapped around the trajectory of a rocket, from conception and design through to lift-off.
As you move through the toolkit, everything is designed to be a set of simple steps for social innovators and early-stage start-ups to follow. Access to or knowledge about funding should not be a barrier to wanting to make a social impact, so the toolkit breaks down the various avenues of funding available, which ones to go for and things to keep in mind during the early stages. This new funding toolkit is different to others as it focuses specifically on the early-stage social innovators and young start-ups, enabling those still formulating business models and plans to benefit from information and guidance.
Within the toolkit you will find information and guidance, specific tools to put theory into practice, and inspirational case studies from across EU Member States. You will also be able to read and learn from expert contributions from respected individuals such as:
- Frank Appeldoorn, Managing Partner at Arches Capital
- Holger Westphely, Acting Head of CAF Venturesome
- Jakob Detering, Managing Director of Social Impact Award
What is the Funding Toolkit?
This Toolkit is publised by the European Social Innovation Competition. It aims to provide early-stage social innovators with tools, information and advice on what is needed (and why) to finance socially innovative ideas, projects or organisations. Furthermore, the guide provides an overview of some of the European funding opportunities that the European Social Innovation Competition’s programme consortium identified as relevant for early-stage social innovators.
The Funding Toolkit takes interested innovators through all steps, from laying the groundwork, how to access funding, early-stage finance tools and providers, specific EU funding opportunities and all the way through to next steps once funding is acquired. It is mapped around the trajectory of a rocket, from conception and design through to lift-off. It provides simple steps for social innovators and early-stage startups to follow, and breaks down the various avenues of funding available to them.
The Funding Toolkit for Early-Stage Social Innovators is one of the Competition’s main publications. It complements the other support actions, such as the Challenge Prize Support Package. Together with this, the Funding Toolkit is designed and developed to accompany the participants from the phase when their socially innovative ideas blossom to the step when they are ripe and ready to be launched into the market.
How can you access the toolkit?
The toolkit can be downloaded for free here and is available now for all interested early-stage social innovators.
[European Social Innovation Competition 26.08.2021]