Expression of Interest For Evidence-Based Review Of Social Innovation Projects Under Easi (2014 - 2027)

Expression of Interest for Evidence-Based Review of Social Innovation Projects under EaSI (2014 - 2027). Start date for expression of interest: 21/09/2026 Europe/Brussels Deadline for expression of interest: 06/10/2026 03:29 Europe/Brussels Description: Stocktaking and assessment of EU-funded social innovation projects under EaSI and ESF+/EaSI strand The contractor will consolidate and assess evidence from approximately 200 completed and ongoing social innovation and social experimentation projects financed under EaSI and the ESF+/EaSI strand between 2014 and 2027. The contractor will first prepare an inventory of the full project portfolio and develop a project typology, meaning a structured classification of projects according to their potential for policy uptake, transfer and scaling up. Using transparent and consistently applied criteria, such as the strength of available evidence, maturity of implementation, policy relevance, transferability and feasibility of expansion, each project will be classified as having low, medium or high potential. Based on this classification, the contractor will produce harmonised fiches and policy-oriented narratives for 25 projects assessed as having high or medium potential. For 15 projects, the contractor will carry out light-touch credibility checks, comparing reported results with existing statistics, benchmarks and, where useful, information from short interviews. These checks will assess the plausibility of the reported results without establishing causality. For 5 other projects, the contractor will prepare quasi-experimental evaluation designs explaining how existing data could be used to compare participants with similar non-participants and estimate project effects. The contractor will design and demonstrate the approaches but will not conduct full impact evaluations. The contractor will also produce an operational toolkit for transfer and scaling up, containing practical criteria, steps, templates and checklists to help public authorities determine whether and how successful approaches could be adapted, transferred, replicated or expanded in other policy and geographical contexts. The results will support policy learning, Member State implementation and programming under the MFF 20282034. [Disclaimer: The above text is machine translated. For accurate information kindly refer the original document.] Tender Link : https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/tender-details/0374e6dd-bf5b-4351-a7ce-10a8d9b297a9-EXA