Binnen het project Future-Proof Retail werden acht labformules ontworpen en getest. Het EHBR(etail) lab bleek een van de drie succesformules te zijn: alle betrokken stakeholders hebben deze vorm van samenwerking beoordeeld als heel positief. Tussen 2018 en 2020 vonden zes edities van het lab plaats in verschillende gemeenten in Zuid-Holland. Hierbij had De Haagse Hogeschool de leiding. Onder regie van de opleiding Ondernemerschap & Retail Management werden derde jaarsstudenten via een minor ingezet. De bedoeling van deze handleiding is om te zorgen voor een opschaling van het EHBR(etail) lab in meerdere Nederlandse regio’s en in samenwerking met andere hogescholen en mbo-onderwijsinstellingen. Hierbij is het belangrijk om te realiseren dat de regierol niet alleen specifieke expertise en ervaring in businessmanagement vraagt, maar ook een serieuze investering in tijd en geld. Bovendien is intensieve inzet van hbo-studenten nodig: twee dagen per week gedurende een semester, of minimaal een onderwijsblok van tien weken. Tijdens het living lab worden retailers geactiveerd en kan er een nieuw of aangepast businessmodel ontstaan. Zowel voor individuele retailers of een heel winkelgebied. De verschillende vragen die wor den opgepakt in een EHBR(etail) lab, zijn veel breder dan de vragen bij andere labs. Het inhoudelijke proces is compleet anders dan bij een Hype lab en Lab Circularity, namelijk iteratief - hierbij verwij zen wij graag naar de handleidingen van deze twee labs. Studenten doen met de eerste (hulp)vraag van de individuele retailer of van een heel winkelgebied als startpunt een empathisch onderzoek naar de omgeving. Ze gaan op zoek naar de vraag achter de vraag: wat is nu eigenlijk het probleem of de uitdaging van de ondernemer of het collectief? In het EHBR(etail) lab werken hbo-studenten, bij voorkeur samen met mbo-studenten, met onder zoekers en het bedrijfsleven aan innovatief onderzoek. Dat gebeurt in een zogenaamde quadruple helix-omgeving (zie figuur 1). In cocreatie ontwikkelen de verschillende partijen praktische tools. Gemiddeld nemen vijf tot twintig retailers deel aan een lab. Samen met de studenten doen ze bijvoorbeeld onderzoek naar de relevantie van de deelnemende retailers voor bestaande en nieuwe klanten. De studenten lichten bestaande businessmodellen inclusief ‘customer journey’ door. Het lab werkt in sprints van zes à tien weken, en de deelnemers hanteren de methode van design thinking. Het succes van het lab bleek namelijk in grote mate samen te hangen met de design-thinking skills van de betrokken studenten en docenten. Studenten die in labs het probleem van ondernemers en medewerkers konden herkaderen (het probleem áchter het probleem boven tafel wisten te krijgen), konden veel waarde toevoegen aan het leerproces van de ondernemer. Zeker omdat zij volgens design thinking verbeterplannen ook concreet konden toepassen en uittesten in experimenten.
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Over the last decade, sport and physical activity have become increasingly recognised and implemented as tools to foster social cohesion in neighbourhoods, cities and communities around Europe. As a result, numerous programmes have emerged that attempt to enhance social cohesion through a variety of sport-based approaches (Moustakas, Sanders, Schlenker, & Robrade, 2021; Svensson & Woods, 2017). However, despite this boom in sport and social cohesion, current definitions and understandings of social cohesion rarely take into account the needs, expectations or views of practitioners, stakeholders and, especially, participants on the ground (Raw, Sherry, & Rowe, 2021). Yet, to truly foster broad social outcomes like social cohesion, there is increasing recognition that programmes must move beyond interventions that only focus on the individual level, and instead find ways to work with and engage a wide array of stakeholders and organisations (Hartmann & Kwauk, 2011; Moustakas, 2022). In turn, this allows programmes to respond to community needs, foster engagement, deliver more sustainable outcomes, and work at both the individual and institutional levels. The Living Lab concept - which is distinguished by multi-stakeholder involvement, user engagement, innovation and co-creation within a real-life setting - provides an innovative approach to help achieve these goals. More formally, Living Labs have been defined as “user-centred, open innovation ecosystems based on a systematic user co-creation approach, integrating research and innovation processes in real-life communities and settings” (European Network of Living Labs, 2021). Thus, this can be a powerful approach to engage a wide array of stakeholders, and create interventions that are responsive to community needs. As such, the Sport for Social Cohesion Lab (SSCL) project was conceived to implement a Living Lab approach within five sport for social cohesion programmes in four different European countries. This approach was chosen to help programmes directly engage programme participants, generate understanding of the elements that promote social cohesion in a sport setting and to co-create activities and tools to explore, support and understand social cohesion within these communities. The following toolkit reflects our multi-national experiences designing and implementing Living Labs across these various contexts. Our partners represent a variety of settings, from schools to community-based organisations, and together these experiences can provide valuable insights to other sport (and non-sport) organisations wishing to implement a Living Lab approach within their contexts and programmes. Thus, practitioners and implementers of community-based programmes should be understood as the immediate target group of this toolkit, though the insights and reflections included here can be of relevance for any individual or organisation seeking to use more participatory approaches within their work. In particular, in the coming sections, this toolkit will define the Living Lab concept more precisely, suggest some steps to launch a Living Lab, and offer insights on how to implement the different components of a Living Lab.
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Within paediatric palliative care, it is essential for families and providers to have open, equal, and trusting relationships. In practice, however, building relationships can be challenging. Investing in better understanding the differences in each other's frames of reference and underlying values seems important. Wonder Lab practices provide a space to explore these differences by focusing together on life phenomena in curious and Socratic ways. Wonder Labs were organised with parents, healthcare professionals, and students involved in Dutch paediatric palliative care. The aim of this study was to develop an understanding of how participants experienced participating in Wonder Labs. We conducted twenty in-depth interviews with Wonder Lab participants and used inductive thematic analysis for data interpretation. Five themes were identified: Slowing down, Appreciating stories, Becoming vulnerable, Opening up and diving in, and Reframing perspectives. Participating in Wonder Labs allowed mothers, healthcare professionals, and students to contribute to deepening experiences and gain an expanded understanding of what is at play in caring for children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. Through working in pluralised groups, frames of reference and understandings complemented each other and could change. Participants often adopted a more open attitude towards others involved in care after participating and adapted day-to-day practices. Deliberating within paediatric palliative care on sensitive issues and their underlying personal and professional beliefs and values must be part of working together, without specific care situations being the catalyst. This may foster the mutual understanding needed in searching for quality of life, death, and bereavement.
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Financieel professionals als accountants, boekhouders, belasting-, financiering- en verzekeringsadviseurs moeten een grotere rol spelen in het faciliteren van de verduurzaming bij hun mkb-klanten om te komen tot brede welvaart. Om dat te kunnen doen is meer kennis nodig over duurzaam adviseren en is er behoefte aan uitwisseling van ervaringen en best practices tussen de verschillende typen financieel professionals. Dit onderzoek gaat zorgen voor meer samenwerking tussen verschillende bloedgroepen van financieel professionals door de oprichting van een advieslab. Wij onderzoeken samen met hen de kansen en mogelijkheden die hier liggen, waarbij wij als kennisinstituut ook een impuls kunnen geven aan de (bij)scholing van de diverse beroepsgroepen. Het onderzoek leidt tot een advies hoe de samenwerking voor verdere kennisuitwisseling het beste kan worden vorm gegeven, een overzicht van bestaande instrumenten en tools voor duurzame advisering en een aanzet voor vervolgonderzoek.
Denim Democracy from the Alliance for Responsible Denim (ARD) is an interactive exhibition that celebrates the journey and learning of ARD members, educates visitors about sustainable denim and highlights how companies collaborate together to achieve results. Through sight, sound and tactile sensations, the visitor experiences and fully engages sustainable denim production. The exhibition launches in October 2018 in Amsterdam and travels to key venues and locations in the Netherlands until April 2019. As consumers, we love denim but the denim industry, like other sub-sectors in the textile, apparel and footwear industries, faces many complex sustainability challenges and has been criticized for its polluting and hazardous production practices. The Alliance for Responsible Denim project brought leading denim brands, suppliers and stakeholders together to collectively address these issues and take initial steps towards improving the ecological sustainability impact of denim production. Sustainability challenges are considered very complex and economically undesirable for individual companies to address alone. In denim, small and medium sized denim firms face specific challenges, such as lower economies of scale and lower buying power to affect change in practices. There is great benefit in combining denim companies' resources and knowledge so that collective experimentation and learning can lift the sustainability standards of the industry and lead to the development of common standards and benchmarks on a scale that matters. If meaningful, transformative industrial change is to be made, then it calls for collaboration between denim industry stakeholders that goes beyond supplier-buyer relations and includes horizontal value chain collaboration of competing large and small denim brands. However collaboration between organizations, and especially between competitors, is highly complex and prone to failure. The research behind the Alliance for Responsible Denim project asked a central research question: how do competitors effectively collaborate together to create common, industry standards on resource use and benchmarks for improved ecological sustainability? To answer this question, we used a mixed-method, action research approach. The Alliance for Responsible Denim project mobilized and facilitated denim brands to collectively identify ways to reduce the use of water and chemicals in denim production and then aided them to implement these practices individually in their respective firms.
The denim industry faces many complex sustainability challenges and has been especially criticized for its polluting and hazardous production practices. Reducing resource use of water, chemicals and energy and changing denim production practices calls for collaboration between various stakeholders, including competing denim brands. There is great benefit in combining denim brands’ resources and knowledge so that commonly defined standards and benchmarks are developed and realized on a scale that matters. Collaboration however, and especially between competitors, is highly complex and prone to fail. This project brings leading denim brands together to collectively take initial steps towards improving the ecological sustainability impact of denim production, particularly by establishing measurements, benchmarks and standards for resource use (e.g. chemicals, water, energy) and creating best practices for effective collaboration. The central research question of our project is: How do denim brands effectively collaborate together to create common, industry standards on resource use and benchmarks for improved ecological sustainability in denim production? To answer this question, we will use a mixed-method, action research approach. The project’s research setting is the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (MRA), which has a strong denim cluster and is home to many international denim brands and start-ups.
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