Framework for Intra-Project Collaboration

This report details an open innovation framework facilitating interaction to better align goals and priorities, promote cross-cultural communication, understanding and collaboration between the partners, and speed up the learning process and iteration of results. The framework will include study visits to the lighthouse cities as well as peer-to-peer workshops using participatory design methods, forecasting, mock-ups, storyboards, future workshops, brainstorming and experience prototyping, building on the innovation playground frameworks. Finally, the report will include an ex-ante/ex-post evaluation framework of cross-cutting issues within clean energy, open innovation, gender, socio-economic science and humanities (connected to Task 9.1)