Design Wings has been included in the European Union's Social Innovation Match (SIM) database, which aims to promote the transfer and/or scaling-up of social innovation across Europe. Here, people and organisations developing social initiatives can find inspirational examples and organisations with whom they might want to work in the future.

"As our project enters a new phase, a strong focus will be placed on fostering social innovation through a variety of design solutions. We are therefore very happy that Design Wings is now recognised as a social innovation initiative. We hope that this will allow us to broaden our horizons and share our experience with our colleagues abroad," says Gabija Vanagė, Project Manager of Design Wings.

Social innovation examples gathered in the Social Innovation Match have a wide coverage: they can be funded from public or private sources and can be local, regional, national or European. The thematic focus is around investment areas of the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), i.e. initiatives related to employment, education and training and social inclusion. The SIM database currently features around 150 social innovation initiatives from all over Europe, including 11 from Lithuania. All social innovation initiatives in the database are validated against quality and appropriateness by a national validator, such as the National Competence Centre for Social Innovation, transnational and EU-level social innovation initiatives will be validated by the European Competence Centre for Social Innovation.