WHO WE ARE Open Impact is an innovative start-up and research spin-off that provides ICT-driven services for measuring, valorising and managing social, environmental and economic impact in an integrated sustainability concept. Since 2019 we accompany organisations in identifying the impacts generated by their projects and linking them to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and other sustainability taxonomies. Ultimately, by combining social impact and digital skills, our goal is to enable new forms of shared value creation. In 2022, Open Impact launched its Open Impact Academy to provide a place of learning for those who want to get involved in impact management and meet the challenge of legitimising value generation in its fullest sense. With the Open Impact Academy, we organise courses in hybrid mode for all levels and needs. From October 2022 we are an accredited spin-off of the University of Milano-Bicocca. OUR CONTRIBUTION WITHIN EU PROJECTS Open Impact positions itself as a major player in the impact economy and European funding sector by offering impact management & assessment services to organisations and consortia – including European partnerships – through the use of our digital platform. Specifically, the Open Impact Platform is a powerful tool that enables the development of customisable digital applications to predict, monitor, evaluate and communicate the social, economic and environmental impact of projects. In addition, as a research spin-off and strengthened by our close collaboration with the world of academia and education, we are able to contribute to research and training activities on key topics such as: social impact, Theory of Change, SROI, social innovation, sustainability and impact-driven EU project design & management, integrating our academic expertise with that of non-formal education (NFE) and strategic consulting. We believe our work has the potential to bring great added value to EU funding applications, increasing the chances of getting funded. We have tested and validated our methodology and tools in various projects submitted within Erasmus+, Horizon Europe, COSME, Interreg, AMIF and other EU, national and regional programmes, many of which were successful. Even when the proposal was not funded, the Commission's assessment of our specific technical contribution was always very positive. As an example, here is an excerpt from the final evaluation report of a project submitted in the context of the call HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-01: "It is positive to note that […] an indicative social return on investment has already been determined. Using this as a basis by which continuous monitoring of the impact is to be implemented in the current project, (as a central element of a defined work package), is both well-conceived and innovative. Through such mechanisms, the project team demonstrate that the impacts sought are quantifiable. Allied to this through utilising this prior knowledge and making it a central element of an active risk management plan will enable deviations from the target values to be detected through continuous monitoring, thus enabling early intervention”.