SIAA – Social Impact for the Alps Adriatic Region

The SIAA project, funded by the European Territorial Cooperation Program Interreg V-A Italy Austria 2014-2020, aims to promote and develop innovative solutions in response to the pressing contemporary social challenges of the Alps-Adriatic region. Specifically, SIAA promotes collaborations between public administrations, universities / higher institutions, incubators and social entrepreneurs for the promotion of innovative solutions, generating social and economic impact in areas such as: Welfare, Healthcare, Cultural Heritage, Circular Economy, Food & Agriculture.
In line with the 17 objectives identified in the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development of the United Nations and starting from the analysis of the social challenges of the cross-border area, the objective of the first phase is the identification of good practices and target groups relevant to purposes of creating a map of the ecosystem of social entrepreneurship. In the second phase, thanks to the collaboration between university partners and business incubators, SIAA envisages the following actions:

- 1. devising and implementing a transnational training path for the consolidation of skills aimed at developing ideas with social impact (coming from both employees of public administrations both from social entrepreneurs) and

- 2. implementation of an acceleration program for the development of the best projects (pilot action).

Partners

• Università Alpe-Adria Klagenfurt – KAR (capofila)
• Libera Università di Bolzano - BLZ
• Università di scienze applicate Carinzia - KAR
• build! Grunderzentrum Karnten GmbH - KAR
• T2i - Veneto
• Friuli Innovazione - FVG
• Università degli studi di Udine - FVG

Activities

• Mappatura e analisi delle condizioni quadro e delle sfide sociali dell’area transfrontaliera
• Sviluppo di un modello di training per target di beneficiari- cittadini, imprenditori, personale di istituzioni pubbliche - nella regione Alpe Adria
• Sviluppo di un Programma di accelerazione per l’implementazione di idee con impatto sociale 
• Sviluppo di Modelli di sviluppo standard per imprese con impatto sociale
• Fase pilota: selezione di 60 idee/progetti che parteciperanno al Programma di formazione e relativo Programma di accelerazione di 4 mesi