Climate Innovation Hub


Climate Innovation Hub is city level, multi-actor  governance and action “mechanism design” with an end goal of economic, environmental and social sustainability. Currently being active in Maastricht, its replication methodology for other cities is public. 


The 6-Step Methodology is as follows:

  • Climate Innovation Hub takes an “objectives-first approach” to designing societal governance and action mechanisms.

  • Climate Innovation Hub brings together a variety of ideas around several objectives and it institutionalizes physical, online, networked spaces for interactions among multiple actors for concrete, urgent and emergent (unstructured, semi-structured, structured) issues and solutions at city and/or regional/provincial level.

  • Actor participants bring forward and generate ideas towards desired objectives of sustainability based on their own interests yet in a strategic relational setting, where public, private and social sector participants are open to learn from each other in a multi-actor setting.

  • Actor participants only need to consider the situations in which the other actor participants truthfully report their own ideas and interests on how to proceed towards a solution.

  • Climate Innovation Hub proposes locally negotiated solutions for a class of public information-action issues (e.g. action towards sustainability).

  • The goal is the main “given”: sustainability, while the mechanism towards sustainability is the unknown.

 


Initiatives with Climate Innovation Hub – Maastricht


PUBLIC SECTOR

 

REAL SECTOR

  • Multi-purpose Digital Directory | MORSE Co-coordinator : RK

  • Kooplokaal.org  | https://www.kooplokaal.org/ | Emergency Response | Towards a Local Sustainable Economy | Producers, Communities, Volunteers and Citizens | Coordinator : Paris Cosma

  • Positive Futures | PoFu | Gateway App Development | In collaboration with Kooplokaal.org | Coordinator: Nicolas Henriksson

  • Green Certification of B2B and B2C Shops | TBA

  • Sustainable Logistics via Circular and Digital Economy | TBA

 

FINANCE SECTOR

  • Research, Education and Outreach Funds | TBA

  • Action Funds |  TBA

  • Societal Financial Capital | Cooperative Local Bank | TBA


Local Partner: SDG House Maastricht

Updated: 6th Nov, 2020