CORDIS · DESIGNSCAPES
Building Capacity for Design enabled Innovation in Urban Environments
- Code
DESIGNSCAPES- Programme
- H2020
- Call
CO-CREATION-02-2016- Status
- CLOSED
- Period
- 2017-06-01 – 2021-09-30
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Participants
| Organisations | Role | Country | Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANCI TOSCANA ASSOCIAZIONE | coordinator | IT | 1 769 375 € |
| BWCON GMBH | participant | DE | 317 750 € |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT | participant | NL | 308 355 € |
| POLITECNICO DI MILANO | participant | IT | 260 000 € |
| UNIVERSITY OF SURREY | participant | UK | 222 581 € |
| AALBORG UNIVERSITET | participant | DK | 221 250 € |
| TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS LBG | participant | UK | 215 000 € |
| WORLDCRUNCH | participant | FR | 214 500 € |
| ASSOCIACAO DE MUNICIPIOS DO VALE DO AVE | participant | PT | 126 375 € |
| UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA | participant | ES | 117 000 € |
| EOES EFXEINI POLI | participant | EL | 116 250 € |
| REGIONALNO SDRUZHENIE NA OBSTINI TSENTRALNA STARA PLANINA | participant | BG | 86 500 € |
Description
Innovation is relevant not only to economic sustainability but also to social and cultural life. Therefore, the creation of an organizational climate enabling and catalyzing innovation deserves special attention and needs to be explored from a sound operational perspective. Cities embed this organizational climate (Jacobs, 1969) and are by nature innovation generative systems.It is within this perspective that the DESIGNSCAPES project aims to realize a better uptake, and further enhancement and upscaling, of Design enabled Innovation in Europe, through direct financial support to flagship and innovation generating initiatives as well as a huge capacity building effort targeting multiple stakeholder groups (citizens, researchers, practitioners, innovators and policy makers). In so doing, we will foster the linkages between research, policy and practice and contribute to making Europe a global leader in the domain.The main features of the DESIGNSCAPES project are the following:- It builds upon the generative potential of innovation in cities - It leverages Design Thinking and Design Driven Innovation concepts as blueprints.- It has a direct and purposeful focus on the scalability potential of Design enabled Innovation- It proposes an original, holistic, evaluation, replication and impacts assessment framework.- It makes use of a “supportive governance approach”.Expected results include: a City Snap Shot tested in 10 countries and 12 cities, a EU Catalogue of Design enabled innovations, Training Modules for local facilitators and innovators, Policy Briefs, e-Publications and a final Conference. Approximately €1.5 million will distributed among 50+ new Design enabled initiatives as required by the H2020 call through 3 consecutive yearly rounds of a 3-staged Technical and Financial instrument akin to the US and NL SBIR program and the SME instrument of the EC.
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