About us
The world of today is confronted with numerous complex challenges. To build a sustainable society for the future, innovative co-creative collaborations between academia, the public sector, business, and civil society is imperative. Societal Impact Hub West was established to facilitate such collaborations.
The Societal Impact Hub West has recently undergone a restructuring process, and is now scaling up its activities, for which the SIRR project is a main partner. The hub focuses on co-creative knowledge production and skills development, structured around a multi-helix approach, fostering sustainable, innovative, and competitive local areas, which align with the SIRR project's goals. There is significant interest in further developing the Hub to become a platform that contributes to more sustainable, resilient, and innovative rural and coastal communities.
Setting: Co-creative collaboration with public and private entities in Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Located by the North Sea.
Main regional business: Societal Development
Challenges in focus: Strengthen collaboration between research and practice, through close involvement of regional and local stakeholders.
Current focus and activities in focus: Develop collaborative structures to identify main regional societal challenges to be in focus.