Missions x Social Innovation - SIX | Social Innovation Exchange

Missions x
Social
Innovation

Mission-oriented policy is a strategic public policy approach that sets specific, ambitious, and time-bound goals to tackle major societal challenges. It focuses on systemic transformation by coordinating efforts across ministries and sectors to drive innovation, investment, and collaboration towards economic, social, and environmental change. Unlike traditional policies, it targets clear missions that require broad, cross-sector cooperation and transformative solutions.

Key questions

What is the potential of social innovations in mission-driven policy agendas?
How can different actors – SI funders, investors, social innovators and R&I policymakers – at European, national and local level collaborate to the missions?
What is the potential of social innovations in mission-driven policy agendas?

Our work in missions

Social
Innovation
Mission Facility

The EU has launched five major missions seeking to mobilise diverse public and private actors and citizens to deliver concrete, measurable solutions by 2030. These missions reflect the EU’s ambition to build a greener, healthier, more inclusive and resilient society.

More about the project

While the EU Missions are a positive, large-scale initiative with high initial interest and a strong normative framework, it faces a significant gap between ambition and implementation.

Social innovation has a vital role to play in achieving the EU Missions objectives. Social Innovation Mission Facility is a Horizon Europe project which aims to unlock the potential of social innovations into mission-oriented policy and practice. The project will engage and mobilise key actors in the EU Missions, including funders, investors, social innovators and R&I policy makers.

SIX’s role in the project is to create a SI Funding and Investor’s Network to advise and engage private and public funding authorities in supporting financing and scaling powerful SIs for the EU Missions’ purposes and by expanding the range of financial instruments with the help of a SI Investment Lab.

Partners

While the EU Missions are a positive, large-scale initiative with high initial interest and a strong normative framework, it faces a significant gap between ambition and implementation.