How can design power better contribute to enabling change, guiding change, and accelerating transitions?

The Power of Design & Transitions program offers (creative) business services, knowledge institutions, and organizations that operate around a social challenge the unique opportunity to conduct design research as equal partners. Together, they develop directions for change and design concrete interventions, while at the same time developing knowledge about how they can do this even better.

CLICKNL encourages public-private partnerships through its Power of Design & Transitions program. It is financed through RVO's PPS-I funding and implemented in programmatic form. A maximum of five projects are awarded per call for proposals.

Each round, or edition, of Power of Design & Transitions has its own focus, conditions, and formats. In general, projects within Power of Design & Transitions receive a maximum subsidy of €650,000, of which at least €200,000 is set aside for the partners who use design power in the research project. They also reserve €50,000 each for an overarching research project and the joint knowledge & community line. The projects last a maximum of three years.

FRAMEWORKS

The Power of Design & Transitions program was established to contribute to accelerating transitions through the development of knowledge and expertise in design power. The missions from the thematic KIAs of the Mission-driven Innovation Policy form the framework for the domains in which the projects are running. The Power of Design Agenda provides direction for the knowledge and expertise to be developed.

The thematic Knowledge and Innovation Agendas of the Mission-driven Innovation Policy:

• Climate and energy
• Agriculture, water, and food
• Circular economy
• Health and care
• Safety

The themes of the Power of Design Agenda (chapter 4.1).

• Better understanding of systems and successful intervention;
• Motivating people to take action;
• Value-driven and responsible design;
• Orchestrating interventions and broad collaborations.