Social Impact Measurement Plan, Learning and Empowerment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Social Impact Measurement Plan, Learning and Empowerment

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Open and distance learning

Project Summary

The project arises from the observation of the exponential increase economic and social vulnerability needs and
situations, generated by economic crises, identifying that one of the possible solutions to this emergency is the creation
of innovative business models.
It becomes essential for enlightened entrepreneurs, especially in countries that have a fragile socio-economic fabric,
such as Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia, Italy and Spain, to identify the value, in terms of the social impact of their business
or the social effect that each intervention generates on the community or on specific categories of beneficiaries.
In this context of uncertainty, there is a new way of doing business: a model is introduced that sets aside forever the
outdated yardstick of profit as the only objective and parameter to assess the health of an entrepreneurial activity,
choosing transparency, 360 ° sustainability (economic, social and environmental) and responsibility towards all
stakeholders, including the environment and future generations as the guiding values.
The need for skills, tools and approaches aimed at measuring and managing this value also increases, the development
of which will be crucial for the evolution of the business ecosystem and social innovation in the EU.

To date, 3,086 Benefit Corporations are certified in 150 sectors and 71 different countries.
In Italy, despite being the first country in the world, after the USA, to have introduced the legal form of Benefit
Company as of 1 January 2016, there are almost 100 B-Corps; just 50 in Spain, while for Greece, Slovenia and Bulgaria
there are long delays (Certified B-Corporation Community, 2020).
Furthermore, in recent years, most of the studies and tools carried out have focused on large companies.

With the SIMPLE project, on the other hand, we want to identify sustainability paths, business models and impact
measurement methodologies that consider the specific features of SMEs, which constitute the production fabric of the
EU countries involved, capitalizing on good business practices at national, European and international level.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

1) To develop for 60 SME workers in Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Greece and Bulgaria, skills in social sustainability in terms
of strategic paths, business models, organizational processes, measurement tools with the development and systematic
adoption of a shared blended training offer (IO1 – TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND
SOCIAL BUSINESS INNOVATION)

2) Promote digital integration in learning activities with the co-design and development of:
a) Open Educational Resources, in the form of interactive, video pills for the corporate population of SMEs, in the
EU partner reference territorial contexts, to increase a skills set in terms of social sustainability useful for their
orientation towards social innovation and immediate application in the business and work environment
b) SIM-Game (Social Impact Measurement Game) which, exploiting gaming and gamification logics, will be an
interactive recreational-educational container structured in episodes, each of which relates to skills and relative open
educational resources, capable of marking the evaluation process concurrently with learning, generating engagement,
motivation and self-awareness.
(IO2 – INTERACTIVE AND GAMIFIED OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES)

3) Align 24 partnership trainers and consultants, involved in two transnational mobilities to:
a) acquire the methodological references of INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN to elaborate the contents of the OER to be
realized by producing interactive, training video pills and GAME-BASED LEARNING to incorporate and functionalize
the dynamics and game based mechanics to be applied to learning processes exploiting game logics to create a selective
and detailed evaluation process on specific areas of competence and determining behaviours of corporate social
sustainability
b) implement the functional plan to guide the target SMEs to measure social impact and guide learners in its application
in target companies during company check-ups.

4) Co-elaborate and standardize methods and tools to measure and manage social impact in target SMEs to allow
workers to conduct corporate check-ups to photograph the actual with respect to the planned social innovation
objectives and trace an action plan to guide companies in redesigning the business model by orienting their objectives
and methods to B-Corp and benefit Company logics. (IO3 – SOCIAL IMPACT MEASUREMENT PLAN)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 299968 Eur

Project Coordinator

I.S.R.E. Istituto Superiore Internazionale Salesiano di Ricerca Educativa & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Cámara de Comercio Italiana – Barcelona
• PIMEC PETITA I MITJANA EMPRESA DE C ATALUNYA
• PANTEIO PANEPISTIMIO KOINONIKON KAI POLITIKON EPISTIMON
• Prism Consulting Srl
• GOSPODARSKA ZBORNICA SLOVENIJE CENTER ZA POSLOVNO USPOSABLJANJE
• Kauzi foundation