TRANSITION e-Mag #4 | Page 11

_10 transition basque country The Interviews Luis Miguel Macias Pereda – Social Innovation Park on the Transnational Startup Lab (TSL) Programme Can you briefly describe the aims of the Transnational Scaling Lab (TSL)? Why do we need a Transnational Scaling Lab? One of the top priorities of the European Commission in Horizon 2020 is to boost potential growth in the current context of low economic growth, and to tackle high rates of unemployment (especially amongst young people) and unmet social needs. The TSL could be an answer to this. For us the concept of ”less is more” is very important. Transition TSL aims to identify and accelerate European social innovation projects with high potential to scale through the implementation of an agile methodology. The common framework for scaling social innovation that Transition partners developed together is important in this respect. The TSL offers a network helping promising projects to multiply their impact and