Participatory Innovation in Times of Crisis and Beyond
- Funded by Volkswagen Stiftung
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19start year
2020Funder
Volkswagen StiftungPrincipal Investigator
Prof Dr and Prof PhD Thomas Gegenhuber, Johanna MairResearch Location
GermanyLead Research Institution
Leuphana Universität LüneburgResearch Priority Alignment
N/A
Research Category
Health Systems Research
Research Subcategory
Health leadership and governance
Special Interest Tags
Innovation
Study Type
Non-Clinical
Clinical Trial Details
N/A
Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Not Applicable
Vulnerable Population
Not applicable
Occupations of Interest
Not applicable
Abstract
How to kickstart social innovation processes at the intersection of government, civil society, and the private sector? The #wirvsvirus hackathon, hosted by the German Federal government, mobilized about 26,500 participants generating 1,494 project ideas for resolving the Covid-19 crisis, and 130 teams joined a post-hackathon program supporting scaling up their ideas. By studying the hackathon and the dynamic interaction among organizers, participating initiatives and actors from the public and private sector, the project contributes to research and practice by understanding whether and how this form of participatory organizing of social innovation can serve as a blueprint for tackling other grand challenges.