For creative professionals & researchers
OPEN | KIEM MV (realising societal and economic impact)
Introduction
The Netherlands is facing major and complex societal challenges such as the energy transition, keeping healthcare affordable and labor market issues. These societal challenges are erratic and intertwined; they have no clear owner and often take place at an (inter)national level. Major changes are needed to tackle these challenges and smart innovations and applications are indispensable for this. But innovations only lead to impact if they are actually used. To achieve this, design power and a design approach are needed.
In order to respond well to the nature of societal challenges as expressed in the Mission-driven Innovation Policy, it is necessary to strengthen the knowledge base of design power. The Design Power Agenda describes what is needed to strengthen and better utilize design power. KIEM MV focuses on this CLICKNL Design Power Agenda. KIEM MV stimulates collaboration between practical partners, research institutions and professionals who use design, manufacturing and change power.
Purpose of KIEM MV
The purpose of this scheme is the (exploratory) investigation of new practice questions through practice-oriented research activities. These research activities are carried out by a network of knowledge institutions and practice partners. Regieorgaan SIA stimulates with this KIEM instrument both networking and the exploration of practical questions that can be a KIEM for a follow-up project or an innovation.
We are looking for research that contributes to new economic and social models of growth and coexistence within the context of the Knowledge and Innovation Agenda (KIA) MV (Social Earning Capacity).
Thematic Framework
In order to respond effectively to the nature of societal challenges as expressed in the Mission-driven Innovation Policy, it is necessary to strengthen the knowledge base of design power. The Agenda Design Power describes what is needed to strengthen design power and make better use of it. The agenda makes a division into three categories of challenges that are explained in detail in the agenda.
- developing expertise to design for transitions;
- optimally deploying design power;
- developing the power of the collective.
With the new knowledge, creative professionals must be able to strengthen the knowledge base around design power or make better use of design power within the context of societal challenges. In doing so, it must be well argued how the intended research wants to contribute to this.
Budget
TThe subsidy ceiling for this call for proposals is € 1,834,917. Within this call, a maximum of 45 applications are expected to be granted. The SIA Governing Body and CLICKNL are jointly financing this scheme.
Collection dates
The applications will be collected at two times. At those times, everything that has come in before that will be processed on a first come, first served basis. The collection times are:
• April 8 2025, 2:00 PM
• September 30 2025, 2:00 PM
Background
By implementing the KIEM regulations, Regieorgaan SlA contributes to the Knowledge and Innovation Covenant 2024-2027. The covenant is based on the Mission-driven Innovation Policy. Practice-oriented research by universities of applied sciences has a prominent place in the covenant.
In the new Mission-driven Innovation Policy, 8 social themes have been elaborated in Knowledge and Innovation Agendas (KIAs). The KIA MV aims to accelerate the scaling up of innovation and thus achieve greater social impact. It organizes the improvement, development and application of methods, working methods and models for successful mission-driven innovation.
The KIA MV assumes integrated innovation; both technology and knowledge and expertise from humanities and social sciences, business administration, public administration, communication, transition science and systems thinking must be used in an integrated manner. In doing so, it also strengthens the other thematic KIAs in the mission-driven innovation policy.
The KIEM MV scheme was developed in close cooperation with Regieorgaan SIA.
Applications for the KIEM MV scheme are made via the website and the system of Regieorgaan SIA. There you can also find more information about the scheme. Go to the website of Regieorgaan SIA to find the Call for Proposals.