Going to be an interesting day/weekend. Solar panels today. Monday new electric car. #solar #energy #transition #climatechange
Category: Innovation
Day 2 in Metropole Ruhr Essen
Meeting Day 2, further discussing digital strategy for clusters. Later today visiting ThyssenKrupp innovation challenge with German startups. #innovation #euregio #TCIglobal #NRW #BMR #healthvalley
ruhr:HUB TCI meeting
Today guest at the ruhr:HUB meeting room for the TCI working group on Digitazation for clusters.
Lot of interesting information on the existing eco system here.
22 universities , 290k students for instance.
Health region large in Germany. More than 40000 hospital beds.
#GenderMedicine #EUregio meeting
Working on gender medicine and innovation. Using problem definition canvas, stakeholder mapping and partnership building. 30+ healthcare innovators at work…
It’s Tuesday…we must be heading to Newcastle…
@healthvalley #interreg #vr4rehab #project #pixlr
On our way to UK. Will we be able to leave again on Thursday? OMG. Anyway. Heading to Teesside University to work on new solutions for rehabilitation.
Lessons learned from the Digital Health workshop #ERRIN
Yesterday I worked with the Healthgroup of the ERRIN network on issues around Digital Health. This was part of the matchmaking event they had organized around new Horizon calls. I was asked to present something from my recent experience with the different projects. But last Friday this changed into; can you give a workshop to 18 people? That left little time to prepare and I had to come up with some improvisation.
Best improvisation I had available was to try an experiment. I had no idea who would be in the group. What their experience was, or their recent project history etc. Basically I was starting from scratch. I thought a perfect opportunity to use a problem definition canvas and see what would happen.
The group was very diverse and from different countries, so it wasn’t so easy to find common ground to start from.
I started with a small introduction what we did in the CIALE project and worked from there. Then I offered them a whole lot of trigger questions to start the proces. We only had about one hour to work with. (Lesson 1; 60-90 minutes for a workshop is too little time if you are not sure what the follow-up possibilities are…)
The three groups started working and I explained to them how to capture thoughts, group them, discuss the input etc. (Lesson 2: always explain why to write with a big marker and one word per post-it…)
As I was walking around I noticed that some groups were further and quicker in capturing their process thoughts and ideas. I observed it for a little while and saw that the group making the biggest progress was the one actively engaging everybody and took turns in putting stuff on the board. (Lesson 3; Make sure everyone is on their feet, literally!)
After about an hour we closed of with a plenary recap to find out that this was new to most, exciting for some, but generally rewarding in capturing and structuring thoughts and ideas around a very complex situation. So with little preparation it is still possible to get a lot on information from a very diverse group of strangers in a very limited amount of time.
Its Monday…this must be Brussels..
Yesterday Abcoude, Brussel today. The ways of an Innovation manager are hard to grasp. Meeting two days with EU regions on Innovation, new projects and initiatives. Leading the workshop on #DigitalHealth this afternoon. #pixlr