Common use of Expected Impact Clause in Contracts

Expected Impact. Increasing the efficiency and savings opportunities of the consumers acquiring energy from traditional sources while accounting for social and environmental costs. • Fostering a more cooperative, sustainable and resilient decentralized model for natural resources management, based on consumers’ co-investment into collectively owned micro-grids, and business models rewarding not only traditional actors but also prosumers. The previous verticals related to challenges that impact individuals in a human-centric way. From health to the economy, from mobility to energy and public services, all the challenges reviewed above are specific to various aspects of decentralized technological, algorithmic and data governance on citizens and consumers lives. However, they are not exhaustive as there are further societal challenges that need to be addressed while it is not possible to analyze them one by one in this document. The main challenge in this case is to provide support to best Internet innovators in order to include within LEDGER's SRI Work Programme human centric solutions to address as many societal problems as possible. Thus, this vertical will offer a space for internet innovators who will be able to submit proposals in areas not included in the five vertical clusters described above. Accordingly, the focus will be on teams proposing innovative ICT concepts, products and services applying new sets of rules, values and models which ultimately create new markets or disrupt existing markets with two objectives: support prototyping, validation and demonstration in real world conditions; and help for wider deployment or market uptake. The overarching goal is to build new Internet applications / services, business models and innovation processes strengthening the position of European ICT industry by tackling ethical, legal and privacy issues, as well as to the concepts of autonomy, data sovereignty and ownership, values and regulations. Proposals should submit unique solutions in areas and for topics residing outside the scope of the previous five verticals while endorsing the general ethos of the LEDGER project as described in the first section of this document. Proposals are also encouraged to endorse a cross-cutting approach within LEDGER verticals framework. Multi-disciplinary approaches are encouraged when relevant. Beyond research, activities should be focused on validation and testing of market traction with minimum viable products and services, of new economic and social models by involving users and market actors at an early stage. They could be designed in order to complement one or more aspects related to the other five verticals. The common element for applications to this vertical is the focus on the human-centric nature of the solutions. Examples vary from - but are not limited to building decentralized data governance tools to: address issues such as gender equality and make both private and public institutions accountable at all levels – address the urgent migration crisis in the South of Europe - improve the quality of education of European citizens and residents – include arts and humanities in the tech discourse - enhance cyber-security levels of citizens and consumers - fostering both local and global partnerships for sustainable development - build impact measurement tools to track the progress of decentralized data governance within the next generation internet framework. Another set of examples relates to solutions developed to address challenges related to the Internet of Things or that address issues such as supply chain management and tracking systems - decentralized data governance systems to manage both material and immaterial commons, data commons/trust models, PropTech, online identity and reputation and referral systems. • Contributing to address topics related to Sustainable Development Goals not addressed in the other verticals. • Strengthening and diversifying the offer of the LEDGER ecosystem of tools for decentralized data governance. • Contribute to the diffusion of solutions that are not contemplated in the five verticals analyzed in previous sections of the LEDGER SRI Work Programme.