An interdisciplinary community lab to facilitate citizen’s participation and health Dr. Franka Bakker Drs. Monique Mensen Drs. Annelies Harps-Timmerman Dr. Carolien Smits August 29, 2017 Krakau, Poland

About Windesheim University of Applied Sciences Divisions at Windesheim UAS: Business, Media and Law Education and Sports Technology and IT Health and Welfare 4200 students 300 employees 5 Bachelor programmes Research groups: Healthy Cities ICT innovations in Health Care Innovating with Older Adults Addiction Prevention Youth Care Policy

Practice-oriented research @ Dutch UAS Education Research Professional field Reflective Practioner Innovation Practice-oriented research Competences Early stage professional (research) questions University of applied sciences Universities Staffing Fundamental research Professionalisation Research competences Applied research

Dr. Franka Bakker Senior lecturer Applied Gerontology (4 years bachelor program) Living Lab Senior researcher Innovating with Older Adults Innovative participation – participative innovation Sustainable innovations Co-creation Active citizenship

Applied research: facilitates Living Labs professional education clients/ consumers/ citizens business organizations professional practice - Applied gerontology - Social work - Nursing ‘How can we facilitate initiatives from citizens in a specific neighbourhood to increase social connections and mutual support?’ community professionals citizens community of Oosterboer best practices, current initiatives needs in social connections and mutual support possibilities, solutions municipality city of Meppel Connecting stakeholders: Active citizens, entrepeneurs Community platform/forum Social work Local authorities Meppel Students from different educations Inventory of citizens’ initiatives Desk research of similar initiatives Connecting and realizing initiatives Advicing community platform & municipality

Research community lab (pilot) What are promoting and inhibiting factors in the co-creation and research processes within a community lab? Community lab (case study) Sept 2015 – Jun 2017 (4 semesters, ongoing) Mapping study: success of innovation-work/learning-communities Feb 2016 – Feb 2017

Results: promoting factors Involvement of students is valuable Positive critical input, fresh energy Personal contact with citizens Research close to citizens Real-life environments Relevant social issues Specific time, specific area Activities provide (lots of) new information Activities stimulate (new) relationships applied research students citizens municipality professional practice

Results: inhibiting factors applied research students citizens municipality professional practice No feeling of joint experiment unclear organizational structure unclear goals, roles and expectations no structured relation management Rigidity of views and structures No skills working in abstract and flexible setting No open mind-set (of students and university) No ensurance of number of students participating Unbalanced roles in guidance in learning and innovation processes

professional practice Conclusions Education: competences students and lecturers flexibility defined (physical) working place applied research professional education citizens business organizations professional practice Practice: joint venture relation management Citizens: professional volunteers’ role research overload Research: reflection coordination, structure Municipality: joint venture, incl. financial sustainability relation management

Contact Dr. Franka Bakker fc.bakker@windesheim.nl Senior researcher Innovating with Older Adults Lecturer Applied Gerontology fc.bakker@windesheim.nl