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Semi-Finalist 01

Areté project

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Semi-Finalist 02

Blue-on project, is a crowdsourcing service to encourage a contact between demand and offer of sustainable services, minimazing complexity

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Semi-Finalist 03

Bodyguard; a stress monitor and biofeedback system for people with autism.

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Semi-Finalist 04

Building a Quality Part Time Job Market - A Transformative Approach for Families

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Semi-Finalist 05

To unite forgotten and undiscovered creative potential: Cooperatives of independent inventors and young unemployed graduates in social sciences

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Semi-Finalist 06

The digital street paper: Helping homeless people help themselves

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Semi-Finalist 07

Economy App

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Semi-Finalist 08

Developing new employment solutions, Empower Today outlines the skills of people in extreme poverty, allowing them to achieve autonomy.

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Semi-Finalist 09

Flat & Jobs | Passport to Job

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Semi-Finalist 10

GROO 40+ Meeting Point

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Semi-Finalist 11

Enterprises Share unused resources to Save money and avoid layoffs

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Semi-Finalist 12

JOB PLACEMENT OF PEOPLE WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME

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Semi-Finalist 13

Mama CoWork

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Semi-Finalist 14

MICROCREDIT FOR RURAL WOMEN – A TOOL TO RELIEVE CONSEQUENCES OF ECONOMIC CRISIS

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Semi-Finalist 15

Mentorship for disadvantaged immigrants – an innovative tool box containing bilingualism, participatory workshops, and solution-focused dialogue

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Semi-Finalist 16

INTERGENERATIONAL PROFESSIONAL NETWORK

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Semi-Finalist 17

Mothers alternatives: mutual collaboration and integration. A service among families living in Naples and immigrant families

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Semi-Finalist 18

Production of stoves utilizing green energy with disabled employees from 100% recycled materials to help people living in deep poverty

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Semi-Finalist 19

PUM _ Pop Up Markets

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Semi-Finalist 20

Restart Up! Rediscovering traditional competencies, renewed by the adoption of modern entrepreneurial models

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Semi-Finalist 21

Romano Cher Social Cooperatives - These are small social businesses which allow traditional Roma craftsmen to improve their living conditions.

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Semi-Finalist 22

Small Scale Solar Applications and other creative skills encourage young people in trouble enter the job market

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Semi-Finalist 23

Hotel Vision

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Semi-Finalist 24

LOCAL TRUST BUILDERS - boosting social enterpreneurship for local community regeneration in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Semi-Finalist 25

The strength in the weakness - creating a local support system for people with disabilities.

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StudentFunder.com: crowdfunding that helps people raise funds and build networks to get into education, employment and enterprise

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Semi-Finalist 27

Success breeds success: Connecting talent in business with talent in communities to create enterprise (and jobs) for social benefit

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Semi-Finalist 28

Talentshop.eu

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Semi-Finalist 29

Tam Tam People into Work

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Semi-Finalist 30

Virtual Work from the Public Services for the disenabled

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About the competition

Over 25 million Europeans are out of work. On top of that, many people are stuck in low-paid jobs or sense that they have few opportunities on the job market – sometimes because of their gender, age or a handicap.

This Competition invites any European to come up with new solutions to create new opportunities for work, and for better work. Not doing anything about unemployment and under-employment is not just cruel and wasteful; the corrosive effects of high unemployment will cast a shadow over the economy and our society for years to come.

The Competition, launched on 1 October 2012, includes a strong mentoring component for shortlisted entries. Eventually the three best proposals (indicative maximum) will each be awarded with a prize of 20,000 euros in May 2013. A second prize competition will be launched in 2014.

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ec.europa.eu/enterprise/social-innovation-competition

*Final decision on the list of competition finalists and winners lies with the European Commission upon judges′ recommendations, in accordance with competition terms and conditions.

Semi-Finalists are listed in alphabetical order by name of project.