FET2RIN aims at facilitating collaborations to set the ground for the take up of FET projects by overcoming obstacles related to market outreach and accessing business leaders including entrepreneurs, early stage investors and crowdfunding communities. FET2RIN will deliver adhoc capacity building and market acceptancy actions to FET project partners to allow them to focus on novel exploitation rutes and unconventional business models to better meet the need of future societal and commercial impact. Proposed actions will stimulate researchers, entrepreneurs, business leaders working together to mutually understand opportunities disclosed by FET and cross-fertilize. Mentors and unconventional stakeholders business leaders, crowdfunding platforms will be engaged to validate market assumptions and speed up take up. Parnters will provide methodological support and capacity building actions based on the new trend of the customer validation process. To maximize impact, leverage on social recognition, seed opportunities for improving innovation potential of FET FET2RIN will reach out with ad hoc actions its target groups (FET Projects, entrepreneurs, business leaders, bakers) and offer opportunities for the mutual engagement of these communities when looking for market validation and acceptancy for FET results. Business leaders entrepreneurs will act as mentors for FET projects during capacity building customers and end users will be actively contacted leaving the labs. Such interaction among different communities and typology of stakeholders (for profit and not for profit, conventional and unconventional, etc.) will promotes cross-fertilization, mutual understanding and open up opportunities for further cooperation and take up.

"<< Background >>Crowdfunding is growing rapidly in the EU and in the world, can become a powerful source for supporting of social innovations, social business and sustainable development. So low-skilled or low-qualified adults can use crowdfunding to implement their own ideas to improve their lives and their community / family, give a new impetus to the development or start of social entrepreneurship. But education for the target audience should be special: easy to learn and the most practical tools to introduction in practice. SEIDE@CRO project aims to support sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives in digital era throught providing for low-skilled or low-qualified adults knowledge, skills and digital tools for organising and realising of crowdfunding campaing to raise money for project introducing sustainable social initiatives.Project oriented on supporting of low-skilled or low-qualified adults who plan to realize sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives/projects to improve their quality life, solve some social-economic problem using crowdfunding. This target group needs easy to use, simple to know and accessible, but modern learning tools, especially the distance format (they often do not have time for face-to-face classes). At the same time, they need finance for their project, want to understand how to build effective crowdfunding campaigns. SEIDE@CRO meets two this needs: innovative digital learnind approach and actual crowdfunding knowledge.Project Target Groups√ direct group - low-skilled or low-qualified adults who plan to realize sustainable entrepreneurship social initiatives/projects to improve their quality life, solve some social-economic problem using crowdfunding. This target group needs easy to use, simple to know and accessible, but modern learning tools, especially the distance format (they often do not have time for face-to-face classes). At the same time, they need finance for their project, want to understand how to build effective crowdfunding campaigns. SEIDE@CRO meets two this needs: innovative digital learnind approach and actual crowdfunding knowledge. √ nondirect groups- organizations providing educational services for adults, crowdfunding consultants They need actual courses and materials for the implementation of their educational products in crowdfunding and for updating their competences. - crowdfunding platforms - want to receive higher quality projects from funders. - participating organisations of project. We need to enhance ability to provide quality educational products to adults, improve staff skills through collaboration and exchange of experience at the international level.<< Objectives >>The specific objectives:√ to analysis best practices using of crowdfunding for supporting sustainable social initiatives in project partners countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Belgium, Ukraine) and form recommendations for adults who is going to realise crowdfunding campaign √ to provide for adults knowledge and skills how to organise and realise crowdfunding campaing to raise money for project introducing sustainable social initiatives, including social enterprenership √ to provide automatisation, simplifying and organizing of the crowdfunding campaign preparation for users for their projects with a focus on sustainable development and solving social problems of society<< Implementation >>Intellectual innovative Outputs1) Best practice report ""Сrowdfunding for supporting sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives"" IO12) E-learning course ""Сrowdfunding in Action: how raise money for sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives"" IO23) A digital assistant for crowdfunding campaign creation - SEIDE@CRO-chat bot in social media"" IO35 multiplier events: 1) Project Infodays in Bulgaria, Poland, Belgium, Ukraine 2) International Forum ""Crowdfunding for supporting sustainable social initiatives"" in Greece.<< Results >>SEIDE@CRO project will produce the following concrete results:√ Best practice report ""Сrowdfunding for supporting sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives"" (IО1) - exchange of ideas and good practice in the crowdfunding field on the national, European and international levels- better understanding of how crowdfunging can be used as a good tool for financing social entrepreneurship projects with a focus on the local community, sustainable development- provide information for making effective decisions for crowdfunding stakeholders √ E-learning course ""Сrowdfunding in Action: how raise money for sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives"": design and implementation (IО2)- new/better skills in crowdfunding with focus on supporting sustainable social entrepreneurship initiative for 60 low-skilled or low-qualified adults. - e-course will be accessible for learners regardless of location, income level, other socio-economic or psychological limitations. - stronger participation of adult people in economic and civic life using crowdfunding for solving social problem at the local, regional, national, European or global level. - new course curriculum will be used by educational institutions to give new digital competences crowdfunding adults and youth. - improving of the educational services quality in the crowdfunding market- partner organizations of the project will enhance their ability to provide quality educational products to adults, improve staff skills through collaboration and exchange of experience at the international level.√ A digital assistant for crowdfunding campaign creation - SEIDE@CRO-chat bot in social media (IО3)- bot users (minimum 50 adults) development of their projects introducing sustainable social initiatives, including social enterprenership.- fosters stronger participation of adult people in economic and civic life using crowdfunding for solving social problem at the local, regional, national, European or global level. - Enhancing initiative of adults and faith in possibilitiesturn their ideas into viable projects with crowdfunding-nnovative chat-bot can be used by educational institutions, crowdfunding platforms and teams of people in the world - rowdfunding platforms get better quality of projects -project partner organizations enhance ability to provide quality educational products to adults, improve staff skills through collaboration and exchange of experience at the international level."

"<< Objectives >>The project will develop a Crowdfunding Digital Academy for CCIs, an online platform co-designed in order to train partner’s staff, cultural professionals and operators on using crowdfunding to launch/boost their projects. It will be the most important executive tool of the project and will be conceived to reach different target groups, including people that could meet geographic or economic obstacles, acrossing social and cultural barriers.<< Implementation >>The project wants to empower CCIs operators/professionals through the ""Training for Trainers Programme"", the ""Crowdfunding for Culture Digital Academy'' and the development of the ""Crowdfunding Campaigns"".<< Results >>Increased understanding and knowledge from partners side on what crowdfunding is and how it can be used as a tool for stimulating innovation and engagement in the CCI sector Ensure wide and open access to an European and standardized training programme on crowdfunding, including several learning materials (toolkit, atlas, case studies) Increased transfer of knowledge and know-how among partners and their staff on specific issues on innovative and correct crowdfunding campaigns"

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (BDLTs) cover a revolutionary potential but their uptake and deployment to value chains other than financial ones remains slow. Among other causes, fragmentation and a series of obstacles to their market deployment hamper the diffusion and pace of adoption of BDLTs by SMEs. Blockpool.eu (https://blockpool.eu/) aims to enhance SME innovation capacity by providing better innovation support. We will use the power of intermediary organisations (clusters, federations...) and cross-regional industrial networks to Pilot the acceleration of SME uptake and deployment of BDLTs. Our consortium thus aims to accelerate the cross-border uptake and deployment of BDLTs by/to European SMEs. Blockpool.eu aims to grow beyond the Pilot Project to become a sustainable Portal for BDLT deployment. We will build and strengthen SMEs’ and intermediaries’ BDLT capacity in a cross-value chain fashion, and strengthening both supply and demand sides through 1) a Blockchain “deployment pool” and 2) generic support activities. Besides enabling actions toward framework conditions and the capacity increase of SMEs, intermediaries and to another extent policy makers and regulators, Blockpool.eu will develop a Deployment Pool: 25 SME projects will be selected through an Open Call allocating at least 50% of the total project budget to test and validate new BDLT solutions (TRL7+) in most prominent sectors (e.g. supply chain, energy, healthcare, Fintech, Insurance, Legal, Shipping & Social Good). SMEs will also benefit from the support of our Mentors Network, training (MOOC/Webinars), as well as other innovative tools. That way, Blockpool.eu will contribute to the demonstration of BDLTs to SMEs across EU value chains but also generate impacts at a broader level than the one of its Deployment Pool: we will generate impacts at the level of the framework conditions (economic, social, legal and regulatory) conditioning the uptake and deployment of BDLTs.

ESIL will establish an EU Framework for capacity building for early-stage investors in Europe, facilitating the take up of Angel Investing, overcoming obstacles related to market outreach and engaging key actors e.g. entrepreneurs, unconventional early stage investors and crowdfunding. To maximise impact ESIL will deliver dedicated actions, tools and mobilise expertise for every investor at any given stage of his/her experience, from awareness to actual investment to "bring on board” local and international investment capacities, increasing the conversion rate in the journey from the awareness raising to the actual investments ESIL will use state of the art on line material and best in class technology platform, but at the same time will engage top Business Angels in intimate events with local champions boosting the process in an informal, peer2peer fashion especially in countries with a younger Angel market The potential is huge, even if we want to count on the most optimistic estimates of 250k business angels today active in Europe this is still far from e.g. the 3mln HWNI Europe can count on ESIL will take special care of less developed market, transferring and adapting all the knowledge of its partners but will also work on improving the more developed market that have big challenges such as illiquidity and co-investments ESIL will target all the members of local BA groups, as well as individual investors, successful entrepreneurs, institutional players in EU28 and H2020 Associate Countries Connecting ecosystem actors (including policy makers) and investors and demonstrating how this pays off will contribute to short-term impact and sustainability. The interaction among different communities and typology of stakeholders (for profit and not for profit, conventional and unconventional, etc.) made possible by the nature of the consortium partners, will promotes cross-fertilization, mutual understanding and open up opportunities for further cooperation and take up.