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Objectives:

• Conduct research and application projects on the social embedding and impact of all types of innovations.
• Contribute to the design and distribution of socially accepted and sustainable innovations to meet global challenges.
• Deploy innovative research, education, and advisory services.
• Provide non-formal learning about social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and policy formation.
• Integrate and increase the local community participation in educational and social processes.
• Generate new knowledge, configure existing knowledge, evaluate measures, develop concepts, and forward their implementation.
• Engage in the development of theories, methodologies, instruments, and measures as well as in the dissemination of a systemically conceptualised broad innovation approach, contributing also to the implementation of the sustainable development goals.
• Apply a set of methodological competences and skills in a broad range of thematic areas with expertise in the Europe.
• Coordinate and deliver European initiatives in education and innovation policies.
• Promote participation in the labour market for the active social inclusion of all.
• Intensify research to co-construct knowledge that will generate innovation.
• Encourage and facilitate people’s active participation in the various stages of co-constructing knowledge, including by identifying problems and developing solutions.
• Ensure knowledge transfer to facilitate the implementation of innovations or practical solutions to the targeted problems.
• Enhance training for highly qualified researchers, students, and staff in ways to approach and encourage social innovation.
• Consolidate and promote the creation of national and international partnerships.
• Encourage creativity and innovative development of people in local community.
• Encourage participation in civil society activities.

• Organize local, national, and international activities about non-formal education and social innovation with similar public and private organisations.
• Build networks and cooperate with similarly targeted European wide organizations in educational and social projects.
• Organize conferences, seminars, workshops, and training courses for people in local communities with the following topics:
  • Social innovations in the fields of demographic change, social exclusion, and poverty
  • Development of education, research and innovation policies, programmes, and instruments
  • Management support provides evidence-based analysis in support of decision making, and conduct foresight, monitoring, and evaluation.
  • Transparent and accountable decision-making processes.
  • Opportunity for personal development.
  • Participation in decision-making.
  • Social protection.
  • Policies to local needs.
  • Participatory technology assessment.
  • Supporting the protection of environment.
  • Actively involving social, cultural, and academic integration.
  • Multicultural and inclusive education.
  • Supporting youth entrepreneurship.
  • Support and promote the wellbeing of young people.
  • Digital skills for young people.
  • Academic and professional consultancy.
  • Lead and/or participate in research projects that can be characterised by the following features:
    • Collaboration of researchers from different disciplines.
    • Research projects exhibit different structures and sizes.
    • For financial support various funding schemes are approached.
    • Deployment of well-established, innovative methodologies of data collection and analysis.
    • Thematically, research addresses social, ecological, and economic challenges of the European Union.
    • Involvement of a wide spectrum of target groups from all societal sectors.