Joint commitment to opportunities and ambitions

Open call Latent Talent

One in four young people has a chronic condition, which often has a major impact on their daily lives. Like all other young people, in addition to challenges, they also have unprecedented opportunities, ambitions, dreams, motivations and talents with which they want to shape their lives. Do you have an innovative idea that will help you realise the ambitions of these young people? Then Agis Innovation Fund invites you to submit a proposal for this call!

A person is not his disease
Young people with a chronic condition such as diabetes, rheumatism, cystic fibrosis, asthma, eczema, but also psychological conditions such as ADHD and depression often have special difficulties to overcome. The consequences of such a condition are enormous. However, a person is not his condition. It's about how you shape life in a way that suits you, gives meaning and has meaning.

Young adults with abilities
This question is especially relevant for young adults who are just beginning to organise their lives. All too often young people with additional health challenges are defined around their condition, around the label they carry with them, and around what they cannot and should not want.

Young people themselves want to see that reversed. To focus on what is possible in life gives energy and perspective. Their abilities and ambitions are important here, as is the interaction with the physical, social and care environment. Young people learn mainly through interaction with their environments, especially those of peers.

How do I come across? Where are my limits? What is loyalty? All questions that have to do with discovering who you are and how you shape that in practice. Context serves as a learning and experimental environment here. The interaction with our environment influences feelings, self-image and confidence, the choices we make and the dreams we dare to chase.

This leads to our core question: How can these young adults (16-30 years old) work together with health professionals and their environment to realise their ambitions and abilities?

Healthcare professionals with dreams
In finding answers to the core question, we also see an important role for young healthcare professionals, without wanting to be exclusive to their "older" colleagues. Young adults, in whatever role, have their phase of life in common, and from there can (more easily) relate to each other's experience.

This makes us curious about the innovative ideas, dreams, and ambitions of (young) healthcare professionals to connect even more closely to the world of young people with a chronic condition, perhaps outside the existing (professional) paths.

The Agis Innovation Fund welcomes proposals from broad coalitions in which young adults (16-30 years old) together with designers, makers, their social and/or professional network, build innovatively on their possibilities and ambitions.

Design research method
The working method we have in mind initially concerns design research, in which designers lead the way. The implementation is in the hands of a varied team, including the people for whom the initiative is intended. In the second phase, we also see an important role for the person responsible for the implementation of the initiative.

The intended innovations in the form of products, concepts or interventions add concrete value to the lives of young people with health challenges and inspire the health sector to think and act differently.

Timeline
• The deadline for submitting proposals is 22 June 2021 via info@agisinnovatiefonds.nl
• The selected proposals will be announced by 16 July 2021 at the latest
• The selected initiatives of this call will start from 1 September 2021
• In September 2021 we will hold the Initiatives Festival of the Chronically Healthy programme
• Four community meetups to be planned will take place during the entire term

More information can be found on the website of Agis Innovation Fund

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