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CHEST (Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks) is a 33 month Collaborative project co-financed with support from the European Commission through Framework Programme 7.

The aim of the project is to promote the development of  digital based innovations that have the potential to address key societal challenges. In addition to the creation of an online community platform that will facilitate the sharing and exchanging of ideas, CHEST will invest up to €2.5 Million of seed finance in highly innovative ideas through delivery of three open funding rounds. Social entrepreneurs will be invited to not only propose new ideas with the potential to receive support but also evaluate and discuss the ideas of others with highest rated projects selected for funding.

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Latest News

DSI Competitions - November deadlines

Nesta and the Office for Civil Society: Click, Connect, Learn (UK) This fund supports innovations that use digital technology to enable volunteers to tutor disadvantaged pupils in order to improve their grades at school. The aim is to help organisations develop or expand scalable models of online volunteer-led tutoring, by offering grants of between £75,000…

2017 events for digital social innovators

There are many events taking place across Europe in 2017 that may be of interest to the digital social innovation community, please click here for a list of events, dates, locations and links to the official websites

2016 events for digital social innovators

There are many events taking place across Europe in the last part of 2016 that may be of interest to the digital social innovation community, please click here for a list of events, dates, locations and links to the official websites

CHEST Call 3 project updates

Icelandic non-profit organisation Citizens Foundation received CHEST Call 3 funding to develop “Active Citizen”, which takes civic participation to the next level by empowering citizens with their own artificial intelligence algorithms and connecting to open big data. Individuals can have their say on the decisions affecting them and also define the political agenda or top…

CHEST Call 3 project updates

Italian innovator Pasquale Donadio received CHEST funding for the “YouSense” project, which aims to allow all European citizens to self-monitor air pollution in their daily life and direct environment, and share this data through affordable devices with a linked portal and smart phone app. Device prototypes were designed and built with feedback from user groups,…

CHEST Call 3 project updates

Macroom-e, an Irish community enterprise focused initiative, received CHEST Call 3 funding for the “SourceIT” project, which is an innovative digital solution incorporating GIS tools to support existing and new enterprises, both social and commercial, which have a specific focus on the reuse and recycling of materials, in locating unwanted resources/waste materials. SourceIT allows these…

Chest consortium

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA
Project Coordinator

www.eng.it
PNO Consultants
www.pnoconsultants.com
EIPCM - European Institute for Participatory Media
www.eipcm.org
Magenta Srl
www.magentalab.it
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board
www.nhsggc.org.uk
ayemind.com
greenApes Srl
www.greenapes.com
Fundacion Ciudadana Civio
www.civio.es
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech
www.upc.edu