Centre of Expertise Mission Zero

Centre of Expertise Mission Zero has a clear mission: ā€œEmpowering learners to create a sustainable future.ā€

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As a driver of sustainable entrepreneurship and living, we conduct practice-oriented research. Professors, lecturer-researchers, and students tackle current issues. Issues such as ensuring liveable cities by eliminating CO2 emissions and creating opportunities for using waste. Together with our external partners, we develop applicable and useful knowledge and tools for the future. 

The Centre of Expertise Mission Zero combines the expertise of the research groups: Designing Value Networks, Energy in Transition, Future Urban Sysrtems, Public Purchasing, Sustainable Business Models and Regenerative Leadership We look for the common grounds between these fields and make a difference together. This results in a different way of operating. We discover new values, change our perspective of the world, and address current issues with todayā€™s knowledge and technology. Focusing on our planet is an inherent part of that.

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Within our Centre of Expertise, researchers, lecturer-researchers and students work closely with practice partners to conduct research. Together they are committed to translating the results of the research -knowledge and insights- into the practice of education and the region.
 

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Publications

Evaluating Living Labs?

Living labs are complex multi-stakeholder collaborations that often employ a usercentred and design-driven methodology to foster innovation. Conventional management tools fall short in evaluating them. However, some methods and tools dedicated to living labs' special characteristics and goals have already been developed. Most of them are still in their testing phase. Those tools are not easily accessible and can only be found in extensive research reports, which are difficult to dissect. Therefore, this paper reviews seven evaluation methods and tools specially developed for living labs.

Evaluating Living Labs? Methods and tools

IMPACT Magazine

Today more than ever, higher education is finding itself at a crossroad. While the internet is filled with qualitative sources of knowledge, universities can often not provide their students with the skillset they actually need for their professional life. Traditional education will get less and less relevant, if it doesn't transform itself into a learning experience the internet can't offer.

An example of such transformation has been 'Mission Impact', a minor taught for the first time in the fall semester of 2020 at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. 17 students of nine nationalities and 12 different bachelor programmes came together to work on wicked problems and apply their respective knowledge, through transgressive, place-based learning.

Connecting to a place in the middle of a pandemic has not been the easiest task. While all learning contexts had to be translated to the new online reality, students were scattered across Europe, preventing some, from meeting their group members or the place they were trying to impact. That it is still possible, is proven through this magazine. After the end of the minor half of the group decided to spend their time and work on this artefact, to create a visualisation of their learning experience over the past couple of months. The change of narrative at Mission Impact and the focus on a more ecological and relational practices has allowed these students to learn and thrive in a safe environment.

This magazine is an open invitation for all sorts of learners. We hope this magazine will inspire our readers. To connect, to transform, to learn. And most of all, we hope you'll enjoy reading it.

IMPACT Magazine Issue 1, February 2021 (pdf)