Based on the lessons learned out of 4 Work Packages, the project delivers a playbook on the Flow Forward Approach and a road map on how to integrate this into innovation strategies.
Shaping the Future of Waterways
Waterways and waterfronts are vital for the economy, ecology, and quality of life in the North Sea region. However, their changing and increasing shared use causes a decrease in safety, accessibility, and liveability. Connected River addresses those issues by, mobilizing multi-stakeholder ecosystems, conducting user centric, agile innovation, and accelerating the uptake of digital/smart solutions.
To move the Connected River project forward, a strong and experienced partnership has been established, comprising of host partners, that will be responsible for hosting and conducting the pilot projects, approach partners that provide expertise, methodologies and a strong knowledge network, and solution partners that will contribute business and subject knowledge to accelerate the project findings within the North Sea region.
Latest Experiments
As part of the Connected River project, a wide range of experiments were carried out across six pilot areas. Innovation often stalls between abstract ideas and tangible action. To bridge this gap, InnoValor developed Solution Cards — a hands-on tool to capture concrete experiments, along with their methods and insights.
Goal
Beyond documenting results, these experiment cards are meant as inspiration: not only for applying concrete solutions, but also for rethinking ways of working and collaborating.
Overview of all experiment cards
While each card can be viewed individually, there is an overarching overview of all experiment cards on the next page. The overview groups the solutions by category of the solution. These categories range from platforms and sensors to new ways of working and signs or nudging.
The cards
In the “Legenda for experiment cards” the different aspects of the cards are explained. These aspects include showing the problem addressed, the developed solution, key insights, and needs for implementation and scaling.
Project Focus:
- Mobilizing multi-stakeholder ecosystems for user-centric, agile innovation
- Conducting user-centric, agile innovation on challenges that shared waterways & waterfronts face (ww&wfs)
- Accelerating the uptake of digital/smart solutions to improve services to stakeholders
- Carried out in 6 pilot regions (Amsterdam, Hamburg, Kleine Nete, Lille, Nijmegen & Vordingborg)
