This report delivers a comprehensive cross-country assessment of the competencies and gaps of National Competence Centers (NCCs) for social innovation. Utilising a structured, multi-phase methodology that integrates partner-validated checklists, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, the report balances systematic analysis and interpretative insights.
The report frames NCCs into three broad ideal types:
- policy-driven,
- skills-driven,
- project-driven.
The report further organises NCC competences into six competence dimensions to describe the overall functioning of the competence centers.
The comparative analysis highlights different levels of maturity: some centers (particularly France and Romania) have consistent profiles and advanced capabilities, others (such as Italy) are in the process of starting up and consolidating (relying on the robust skills of their founders but still needing to refine the best way to make them available through the Center) and still others (such as Slovenia and Croatia) are in the process of being set up and need to find a stable balance between the different areas of expertise.
The full report is available here.
