2022: Collaboration for Impact

In 2022, NADR analyzed more than 30 collaboration projects in cooperation with the Go-CI programme of Taskforce Applied Research SIA and CLICKNL. The assessment aimed to identify the factors that are crucial in collaborations between the creative industry and knowledge institutions. It explored the impact of these projects on individuals, communities, and organizations, as well as the societal challenges they addressed. Additionally, the analysis sought to uncover remaining opportunities and valuable lessons for future collaborations.

Digital Magazine

In collaboration with the innovation program GoCI, an initiative of Regieorgaan SIA and CLICKNL, the digital magazine Collaboration for Impact was launched. In 32 articles, the magazine provides a glimpse into the diversity of KIEM GoCI and other applied design projects and what impact intensive collaboration with practice partners delivers. What factors are relevant in the collaboration between the creative industry and knowledge institutions, and how do these factors influence solving societal challenges? 

Collaboration for impact

is the result of a shared curiosity of researchers affiliated with the NADR lecturer platform and/or working on KIEM GoCI-funded projects. They have mapped the outputs of their research projects for this magazine. The core question underlying the 30 GoCI projects was what factors are relevant to collaboration between the creative industry and knowledge institutions, and how these factors influence the resolution of societal challenges. The magazine is not only a compilation of results, but also a reflection on collaboration, impact, and value creation at different levels.

Reflection on collaborations

In doing so, the magazine reflects collaborations and their impact on individuals, communities and organizations. Indeed, practice-based design research requires context and purpose, and therefore stands or falls with partners and collaborations that are strongly embedded in practice.

Wonderful Platform.

Mieke Dols, GoCI project leader, comments, "The magazine provides a wonderful platform for 30 research projects funded by us from KIEM GoCI. It allows you to see the palette of diverse innovative and creative research. These range from technological innovations that use pocket-sized VR glasses to combat social problems in neighbourhoods to moths that are no longer used as pests but as natural cleanup agents."

“Another valuable part of the magazine,” says Dols, “are the three reflections written by the matchmakers of the GoCI program. They provide us with relevant insights into how the creative industry and researchers are currently collaborating, the societal challenges addressed by the exploratory studies, existing opportunities, and how we plan to organize these efforts in the future.”