Periodic Reporting for period 2 - SDIN (Service Design for Innovation)
Berichtszeitraum: 2017-01-01 bis 2018-12-31
The objectives of SDIN-ETN (www.servicedesignforinnovation.eu) are to systematise these diverse approaches into a research training framework that integrates service design and service innovation in a multidisciplinary approach; doing so fully leverages the creative power of service design to foster innovation, specifically addressing the design for increased stakeholder participation in value co-creation and the design of complex service systems and value networks.
Three fundamental courses were developed and offered not only to the ESRs but to other Phd students from the beneficiaries, raising the potential for spill over effects from the SDIN project. The fundamental courses have also been recognized by University of Porto, allowing for future editions of these courses to be opened, thus ensuring a lasting impact of the SDIN project. The results of the SDIN project were also disseminated through the SDIN Annual Conferences. These conferences had a combined number of more than 250 participants, accomplishing their goal of exposing the research done in SDIN to companies and other regional partners of the SDIN beneficiaries. The SDIN Conferences accomplished their potential of producing spill-over effects that are an important objective of the project. These conferences also allowed the ESRs to start building their own network of contacts outside academia, potentiating their employability opportunities. The academic beneficiaries have also reinforced their leading role on service design and innovation research with Maastricht University successfully organizing Servsig 2016 (www.servsig2016.com) University of Porto successfully organizing QUIS15 (www.fe.up.pt/quis15) in 2017 and IPDMC in 2018, and Politecnico di Milano successfully organizing SERVDES in 2018. These are major service research and service design conferences that attracted hundreds of researchers and practitioners.
Finally, the non-academic sector was well integrated and contributed to the network with the two non-academic beneficiaries (EDP and the County Council of Värmland) being completely in tune with the other beneficiaries. The County Council of Värmland offered various secondment opportunities and organized a workshop. Also, non-academic associated partners have offered secondment opportunities.