Mentor: Radoslav Delina
The rapid pressure on the development of the social economy has often been caused by the inefficient development of social enterprises. Low transparency of their production, location or their potential to meet market demands, lack of information and unavailable geospatial and other relevant analyzes of social economy development, as well as non-existent infrastructure of services supporting voluntary activities (or potential employability of severe health disabled) or added value of social entrepreneurship hamper increasing and streamlining their production and sustainability.
This challenge focuses on solving the mentioned problems by promoting information, easier connection of voluntary work with the needs of social enterprises, (eg through harvesting days at social farms), or opportunities to participate in regionally available severe health disabled, or. vulnerable groups into the social enterprise as well as raising awareness of its production, quality, needs (eg work) and social benefits.
The application should be at the appropriate level of complexity based on Atlas of best practices, or other mapping tools:
- Visualize the location of a social enterprise, with information about its character, production and social value
- Visualize their actions such as Harvesting days, local social markets as well as demands for team building or. Other types of actions that can be implemented on social farms, or Other social enterprises
- Visualize the business potential mainly for the public sector in the framework of social public procurement
- Visualize the business potential mainly for the public sector in the framework of social public procurement
- Visualize the needs of the company with mapping the offer of suitable volunteers and vice versa
- Visualize the job offer of severe health disabled, or other vulnerable groups
- Visualize the growth potential of social entrepreneurship in terms of needs as well as social job market opportunities
- Visualize trends, developments, gaps in the social market for the needs of policy makers
The Atlas of the Best Practices will be used as the basic technological platform, on which a prototype of the application of social enterprises and farms will be created.
The Atlas of Social Enterprises and Farms will be an information tool for clarifying the location, supply and needs of social enterprises, including social farms. The application will be open to other relevant applications that could suitably complement the content for services for social enterprises. Target users will be:
- End customers looking for production with a higher social benefit in the required quality
- Volunteers looking for opportunities to volunteer on social farms and in social enterprises
- Severe health disabled with the opportunity and willingness to work
- Public and commercial contracting authorities looking for an offer of social enterprises on a regional scale
- Social enterprises looking for outlets and job assistance
- Policy makers, ministries, associations interested in the development of the social economy looking for a better tool to clarify the state of social enterprises, their production, market gaps, needs, development, potential, etc., which will support the decision-making of governments and local governments.
The application should be interoperable and interconnectable with other pilot projects and services appropriately complementing the atlas of social enterprises and farms extending services and information for better sustainability and development of social enterprises (eg connection to job portals, supply chains, public procurement software, etc.)
Main topics of the challenge:
- The method of connecting available information sources, or modeled
- Design of indicators for better decision making
- Creation of data structure and method of data collection
- Different forms of visualizations
- Creating a model applications
- Links to third party applications
About your mentor
RADOSLAV DELINA graduated at the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia. He has experiences from memberships in the European RTD Evaluation Network (Ares(2013)437085-MS) under DG Research and Innovation of European Commission, MGA WG DG R&I, expert advisor for the Ministry of Education Slovak Republic, for Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in the field of research and innovation and international cooperation and from expertise for EC in different several initiatives. Radoslav has extensive RTD experiences from EU FPx research and development projects in the field of digital and data services innovation in different areas and as evaluator of FPx and national projects in different countries. Nowadays, he is focusing on socially responsible digital innovation with higher societal impact, transparency, smart data (data mining) services, e-procurement and decision making process automation. He is developing the concept of social farming 4.0, where smart technologies are helping with working inclusion and sustainability. He is a strong supporter of higher data driven transparency and social inclusion. His commercial activities are focusing on market intelligence for strategic and operational supply chain, fraud detection and public procurement transparency. Radoslav was the coordinator of H2020 CSA WIRE2017 project in the field of socially responsible digital RTD and reducing inequalities. He won first prize on eBF – Fair Sourcing Award in the IDEA section with data driven innovation for e-procurement.
