CORE12.01 aspires to significantly enhance the entrepreneurial competence of 30 European deep tech researchers and 60 ecosystem actors, facilitating breakthrough climate solutions. The participants will be selected as Innovation Fellows (IFs) through an Open Call into the Responsive Ecosystem Fellowship Programme (REFP), a 25-hour modular program that combines training, mentorship, and a KPI-driven practical approach. By integrating a quadruple-helix model that unites academia, industry, government, and civil society, CORE12.01 draws on each sector's expertise to develop tailored methodologies and fosters deeper connections within and between innovation ecosystems, empowering collaborations, accelerating market entry, and improving business survival rates. Through the development and use of the Responsive Ecosystem Toolbox (RET) and the Responsive Innovation Monitoring Tool (RIM), IFs will acquire essential entrepreneurial skills, including market analysis, business modeling, stakeholder engagement, and fundraising, while actively participating in networking activities. The REFP’s 5 training modules will support 30 IFs in achieving concrete commercialization milestones with masterplans, increasing their entrepreneurial competence by 30-50%, and addressing pressing societal needs via their solutions. Ensuring diverse participation with 25% female and 35% coming from Emerging/Moderate Innovator Countries, CORE12.01 seeks to bridge the gender gap in leading roles in the climate-tech innovation landscape, building transnational collaboration between siloed and networked researchers The successful implementation of CORE12.01 will showcase the establishment of a more interconnected, resilient, and impact-driven innovation ecosystem across Europe, facilitating research-industry collaborations to support the transition to a zero-carbon society.

The overall objective of the project is to unlock the untapped potentials of social innovations (SIs) to boost the EU Missions by promoting, activating, scaling and mainstreaming SIs and by engaging and advising SI funders, investors, social innovators and R&I policymakers at European, national and local level through a series of interconnected measures. To attain this objective, we will address four Key Actions: 1. Identify an evidence base of successful and - regarding the EU Missions - auspicious SIs and co-create suitable impact pathways and anchor points for the integration of SIs in future calls and topics of the EU Missions. 2. Provide training and advice through our Training and Scaling Lab about the opportunities provided by the EU Missions, by upgrading the skills of social innovators and support organisations for successful scaling and participation in calls of the EU and of private and public funders dealing with mission related themes. 3. Create a SI Funding and Investors’ Network to advise and engage private and public funding authorities in supporting, financing and scaling powerful SIs for the EU Missions’ purposes and by expanding the range of financial instruments with the help of a SI Investment Lab. 4. Establish a Community of Practice (CoP) to implement regular exchange and learning between EU Missions, the SI Funders and Investors’ Network and social innovators to meet demand and supply and to co-create a Research Agenda to make the best use of SI for the EU Missions. The Key Exploitable Results (KERs) of the project are a Catalogue of SI impact pathways (KER-1); Operational Training and Scaling Lab (KER-2); 30 credible scaling plans (KER-3); a committed funding network to support EU Missions established (KER-4); one financial Framework Partnership Agreement for a networked catalytic fund prepared (KER-5); A co-designed research agenda (KER-6) and >200 organisations engage in exchange and dialogue (KER-6).