This year, with the help of Ashoka Romania, Cluj-Napoca was the host of the Mentoring Academy in the largest competition dedicated to social innovators in Europe, the European Social Innovation competition, organized by the European Commission. Thus for 3 days (16-18 July), Cluj became the learning and incubation space for the creators of the 30 semifinalist ideas.  The selected 30 originate from 20 countries across the EU and Horizon 2020 member countries.