The winning project of the Get Active Social Business Award 2018, Die Schlaue Box (The Smart Box), is a social start-up that supports children with special needs with the help of a visual structural aid to independently master tasks and challenges in school or kindergarten as well as in everyday life.

The NPO & SE Competence Centre carried out an evaluation as with every winning project of the Get Active Social Business Award. Specifically, an impact analysis was used to check whether and to what extent the set impact goals of the project were achieved.

Children with an autism spectrum disorder, their families or educators in kindergartens and schools, classmates and companies benefit from this tool.

All in all, Die Schlaue Box increases the quality of life of people with special needs and of people from their social environment in everyday life through an easily manageable and high-quality structural aid. Furthermore, it creates awareness for the needs of people with an autism spectrum disorder, especially in kindergartens and schools, and thus contributes to a better social inclusion of people with special needs in the long term.