1) Revision of funding schemes to focus on project's outcomes and results and to support scaling-up and replication of successful initiatives. Promote alliance with private sector; experiment low cost projects and technologies. Promote project design based on value chains (not on bureaucratic eligible criteria) and embed project's eco-social impact evaluation into them. Promote multi-stakeholders collaboration by sharing approaches, platforms, instruments. 2) Promote ICT-enhanced Social Innovation as a tool for EU growth, e.g. influencing Member States to support via the Social European Fund telecentres, new digital professions (e-Facilitators), media labs, etc. 3) Devoted training for special target groups is still necessary (youth, women, new entrepreneurs) 4) Promote volunteering as "low cost" digital multiplier tool but also to empower and increase the employability of volunteers (notably youngsters) 5) Invest to increase the demand for innovation (e.g. telework: the tools are there, but there is low demand), through awareness raising and innovation literacy. 6) Encourage civil servants to be social innovators, e.g. through some kind of award
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