Supporting sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives in digital era: crowdfunding toolbox

"<< Background >>SEIDE@CRO project supports sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives in the digital era by providing low-skilled or low-qualified adults knowledge, skills, and digital tools for organizing and realizing of crowdfunding campaign to raise money for projects introducing sustainable social initiatives. Project-oriented on supporting of low-skilled or low-qualified adults who plan to realize sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives/projects to improve their quality life, and solve some social-economic problems using crowdfunding. This target group needs easy-to-use, simple-to-know, and accessible, but modern learning tools, especially the distance format (they often do not have time for face-to-face classes). At the same time, they need finance for their project and want to understand how to build effective crowdfunding campaigns. SEIDE@CRO meets two of these needs: an innovative digital learning approach and actual crowdfunding knowledge. << Objectives >>The SEIDE@CRO project aimed to achieve many major outcomes:Analysis of Best Practices: The project's goal was to perform a complete analysis of the best crowdfunding techniques for financing long-term social initiatives in partner nations. By evaluating successful cases and techniques, the project aimed to identify crucial insights and recommendations that may enlighten and help people planning crowdfunding campaigns for similar causes.Skill Development: One of the key goals was to provide people with the information and skills they needed to successfully organize and execute crowdfunding campaigns. This included training in many areas of crowdfunding, such as campaign planning, and communication techniques, allowing individuals to launch their own sustainable social ventures.Automation and Simplification: the SEIDE@CRO-chat bot was also created, to automate and streamline the crowdfunding campaign planning process. The project aimed to lower entry barriers for individuals looking to address social problems and promote sustainable development through crowdfunding by developing a user-friendly application that streamlines campaign organization and management.<< Implementation >>Project management and coordination activities: - Online Kick Off meeting - Monthly online progress meetings (13 online progress meetings)- Second Transnational Partners Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, - Third Transnational Partners Meeting in Warsaw, Poland, - Fourth Transnational Partners Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, - Final Transnational Partners Meeting in Athens, Greece Intellectual Innovative Output 1 (IO1) Best practice report ""Сrowdfunding for supporting sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives"" Intellectual Innovative Output 2 (IO2) E-learning course ""Сrowdfunding in Action: how raise money for sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives""Intellectual innovative Output 3 (IO3) A digital assistant for crowdfunding campaign creation - SEIDE@CRO-chat bot in social media"" - Implementation of International Forum ""Crowdfunding for supporting sustainable social initiatives"" in Greece (Corinthos) - Implementation of four Multiplier Events in Ukrania, Bulgaria, Belgium, and Poland - Dissemination and exploitation activities (Dissemination monitoring tool, Dissemination, and exploitation plan, Dissemination Report) - Management and implementation documents preparation (Risk management Plan, Quality Assessment Plan, Implementation Plan)<< Results >>The project implementation led to the achievement of these additional tangible and intangible results: Tangible results:Throughout the duration of the project, the initial results and objectives were successfully achieved. Additionally, the project achieved the following:Βest practice report: Crowdfunding for supporting sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives in project partners countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Belgium, Ukraine) available in 5 languages.5 semi-structured interviewsE-learning course “Сrowdfunding in Action: how raise money for sustainable social entrepreneurship initiatives” to provide adult educators knowledge and skills on how to organize and realize crowdfunding campaign to raise money for project introducing sustainable social initiatives in 5 languages (Greek, Bulgarian, Polish, English, Ukrainian)Digital assistant for crowdfunding campaign creation SEIDE@CRO-chat bot in social media to provide automatisation, simplifying and organizing of the crowdfunding campaign preparation for users for their projects focusing on sustainable development and solving social problems of society.67 adults used the Chat Bot bot users (minimum 50 adults) for the development of their sustainable social initiatives, including social entrepreneurship. 5 Multiplier Events of the project's partners (Ukrain: 41 participants, Greece: 62 participants, Bulgaria: 25 participants, Poland: 35 participants, Belgium 30 participants)Piloting of the use of the Chat Bot in adult education in 5 countries: Bulgaria, Ukraine, Poland, Greece and Brussels.Piloting of the E- Learning Course in 5 countries: Bulgaria, Ukraine, Poland, Greece and Brussels.35.685 partner staff members, target groups and stakeholders on both national and European levels informed of project results through dissemination activities carried out during the whole project life cycle95 info items (61 posts in fb and 34 Linkedin) related to project goals and results, published on the online platform and social media profiles within project lifetimeProject social media channels: Facebook: 40 persons followers, 36 likes, 61 post, 3,100 people were reached Linkdin : 16 members, 34 posts, 1,709 people were reachedImplementation plan, Quality Assurance plan, Risk management strategy, Dissemination and exploitation plan, Interim progress reportsFinal reportFeedback forms.Intangible results: Partner satisfaction measured by questionnaires: 96.55% positive answersIndicator measuring stakeholders' satisfaction: 91.1% of respondents expressed their satisfactionIndicators measuring the quality of staff resources: 96.6% of respondents expressed their satisfaction."