The Lab

Coordinator: Dr. Serdar Türkeli

The Lab @ UNU-MERIT focuses on experiments and explorations in innovation policy research,  education & training,  and knowledge transfer & outreach.

All activities follow an academic excellence, policy relevance and a societal, multi-actor, multiple-value creation and delivery, in short, impact perspective:

A socio-technical perspective which significantly concentrates on complexity, governance and sustainability issues and solutions.

The Lab @ UNU-MERIT:

• RESEARCH

  • Prepares proposals on innovation and innovation policy research, education & training, knowledge transfer & outreach activities with/without other local, national, international parties (e.g. partners, coordinators, consortia) for acquisition of third-party research funding stand-alone or as a part of research themes and groups  @ UNU-MERIT | e.g. SWOL, LIOF, Ministries, PBL, NWO, EC H2020, EC EASME, EU COST, ORA, WUN…

• EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  Bachelor Level:

  • Develops Bachelor’s level courses  | UCM 3056 Innovation Systems, Policy, and Sustainability Transitions | UM Sustainability Minor – Sustainability Project
  • Supervises and host Bachelor’s level Capstone projects | UCM Capstone Library
  • Designs Bachelor’s level cross-faculty education and research projects | UM EDLAB Honours+ 2017/2018 | UM EDLAB Honours+ 2018/2019 | UCM MARBLE 2018/2019 – …
  • Provides Bachelor’s level local, national, international guest lectures | e.g. EUC Rotterdam – Economics of Sustainability

  Master Level:

  • Develops Master’s level courses | MPP IID 4408 Science, Technology and Innovation Policy  | EBC 4229 Governance and Institutions in Emerging Markets | SOE4206 The Social Entrepreneurship Public Policy Nexus | GID4408 Innovation for Sustainability
  • Supervises and hosts Master Thesis Library in sustainability domain | MPP Master Thesis Library
  • Facilitates online cross-disciplinary working groups | MPP Social Innovation | MPP Migration and Innovation
  • Provides Master’s level guest lectures  | UCV Venlo – Health Food Innovation Management   | VUB Money & Law – Sustainable Finance

  Ph.D. Level:

  • Develops Ph.D. level courses and lectures |  UNU-MERIT/MGSoG GPAC2 PhD Green Innovation Systems |  Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis | Applied Political Economy of Innovation, Governance and Policy Analysis | Tensions, Turns and Policy

• KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND OUTREACH

  • Hosts Methods and Skills Library | Q-Methodology | Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
  • Hosts Thematic Thesis Libraries | Circular Economy Thesis Library
  • Develops Open Toolkits | Litoscope Accelerator v1.9
  • Activities to build glocal (online/offline) communities for sustainability | SITE4Society | Climate Innovation Hub 
  • Hosts Assignments-as-Products (APP) and Digitally Enhanced Eligible Products (DEEP) Hub: Sparks
  • Attends local/national/international outreach events | Make SDGs Yours Maastricht |Act4GlobalGoals Maastricht|  Climate Action VU Amsterdam | Climathon Brussels |  …

         Cross-Faculty and Local Level Links

National Level Links

International Level Links

UM-led H2020 Green Deal proposal

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