The RESIST Project

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<h2 class=”wp-block-heading”>Regional Ecosystems for Social Innovation and Social Transformation</h2>
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<p>This Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy (MOIP) Guide was funded by the European Commission’s Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme as part of the RESIST project.</p>
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<p>In the RESIST project, regional authorities, business support organisations and sectoral agencies develop a model of how to open up existing regional innovation ecosystems for social innovators and social entrepreneurs tackling societal and environmental challenges.</p>
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<p>Social innovators and social entrepreneurs can play an important role in finding creative and unconventional solutions to current transformative challenges such as migration, the transition to a carbon-neutral society, or digitisation.</p>
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<p>The RESIST project supports these institutions in creating better and more supportive regional ecosystems for social innovation (SI) and social entrepreneurship (SE).</p>
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<p>The project partners explore the concept of “clusters of social and ecological innovation” (CSEI) as a model for fostering cross-sectoral collaboration.</p>
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<h2 class=”wp-block-heading”>Project Contact</h2>
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<p><strong>Lead Partner:</strong> Ministry of Economics and Innovation, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg<br>Email: <a href=”mailto:resist@bwi.hamburg.de”>resist@bwi.hamburg.de</a><br>Website: <a href=”https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/resist/”>interreg-baltic.eu/project/resist/</a></p>
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