Climate Innovation Hub is a 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:
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Climate Innovation Hub takes an “objectives-first approach” to designing societal governance and action mechanisms.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Climate Innovation Hub proposes locally negotiated solutions for a class of public information-action issues (e.g. action towards sustainability).
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The goal is the main “given”: sustainability, while the mechanism towards sustainability is the unknown.
Initiatives with Climate Innovation Hub – Maastricht
PUBLIC SECTOR
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Awareness Raising Collaboration | CIH Meetings | Coordinator: Paris Cosma
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CIRCL-i | Community Inspired Research on Common Local Issues | Coordinator: Charles Wesemann
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CCC | Issue of Car-free City Center(s) | Coordinator: Beatriz Cardoso Fernandes
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City and Culture | COVID-19 Response | Link: https://www.cultuur-maastricht.nl/
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City Links | Virtual Gatherings in Developing Countries | Coordinator: Paula Portiolli
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Homa Reto | A novel platform to decentralize accountability mechanisms within the global humanitarian system encouraging participatory democracy | Coordinator : Elaine Donderer
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Sustainable Housing for European Sustainable Cities | M.Sc. thesis: Michaela Vopálecká
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Sustainability Guidelines for Students | Coordinator: Maastricht for Climate : Sustainability Guide Maastricht – How To Manage Your Ecofriendly Life
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REAL SECTOR
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Multi-purpose Digital Directory | MORSE Co-coordinator : RK
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Kooplokaal.org | https://www.kooplokaal.org/ | Emergency Response | Towards a Local Sustainable Economy | Producers, Communities, Volunteers and Citizens | Coordinator : Paris Cosma
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Positive Futures | PoFu | Gateway App Development | In collaboration with Kooplokaal.org | Coordinator: Nicolas Henriksson
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Green Certification of B2B and B2C Shops | TBA
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Sustainable Logistics via Circular and Digital Economy | TBA
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FINANCE SECTOR
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Research, Education and Outreach Funds | TBA
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Action Funds | TBA
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Societal Financial Capital | Cooperative Local Bank | TBA
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