Like Step 1, Step 2 of the Urbal process helps you gather, organize and understand information about the innovation. Through Step 2, you will:
- Gather people together in a participatory workshop to better understand the innovation.
- Get a big picture view of what the innovation does.
- Assess the innovation and see if and how it creates sustainable changes.
Benefits for innovators include:
- New information and insights to guide actions and decisions regarding sustainability objectives.
- The collection feedback and new ideas to inform innovators.
- More participative governance dynamics.
- Increased networking within a territory.
- Increased capacity to scale innovation up, out, and deep.
- The creation of benchmarking and regular evaluation processes to track progress for the innovation.
- Benefits for other innovators: to benefit from the URBAL results produced by other innovations, in a process of building communities of practice.
Benefits for innovation actors (consumers, clients, beneficiaries, providers, producers, employees etc.) include:
- Increased awareness about innovation and sustainability.
- Enhanced capacity building and dialogue.
- Enhanced connections with other stakeholders and networking.
Benefits for policy-maker include:
- Better understanding of the innovation
- Increased support for decision-making processes concerning
- Ability to promote innovations in an integrated way
- Increased capacity to strengthen local food policies.
Benefits for researchers include:
- Expanded understanding about the impact of innovation on building more sustainable food systems.
- Deeper understanding of how sustainability dimensions are considered in the innovation, which are missing and how the overall sustainability work can be improved.
- Ability to prepare for a quantitative assessment.
- Ability to build community of practices.
Benefits for funders include:
- Ability to assess projects and gather information for strategic decision making.
- Ability to benchmark on-going or proposed projects.
- To accompany and guide actions and decisions with regard to sustainability objectives
- To bring feedback and new ideas to the innovators
- To inspire more participative governance dynamics
- To network within a territory
- To strengthen their capacity to disseminate innovations on other scales and to act as a benchmarking and regular evaluation tool to track progress for the innovation.
To benefit from the URBAL results produced by other innovations, in a process of building communities of practice.
(consumers, clients, beneficiaries, providers, producers, employees, etc.)
- To raise awareness about innovation and sustainability
- To enhance connections with other stakeholders and strengthen the network.
- To expand what is understood about the impact of innovation on building more sustainable food systems
- To highlight which sustainability dimensions are considered, which are missing and how the overall sustainability work can be improved
- To prepare for a quantitative assessment and to build community of practices.
- To better understand the innovation
- To help in the decision-making process concerning their support and to promote them in an integrated way, and in the case of food policy innovation to build capacities to strengthen local food policies.
- To create a benchmark for on-going or proposed projects.
- To enhance connections with other stakeholders and strengthen the network.
For innovators
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To accompany and guide actions and decisions with regard to sustainability objectives
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To bring feedback and new ideas to the innovators
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To inspire more participative governance dynamics
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To network within a territory
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To strengthen their capacity to disseminate innovations on other scales and to act as a benchmarking and regular evaluation tool to track progress for the innovation.
For other innovators
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To benefit from the URBAL results produced by other innovations, in a process of building communities of practice.
For the innovation actors
consumers, clients, beneficiaries, providers, producers, employees, etc.-
To raise awareness about innovation and sustainability
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To enhance connections with other stakeholders and strengthen the network.
For researchers
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To expand what is understood about the impact of innovation on building more sustainable food systems
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To highlight which sustainability dimensions are considered, which are missing and how the overall sustainability work can be improved
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To prepare for a quantitative assessment and to build community of practices.
For policy-maker
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To better understand the innovation
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To help in the decision-making process concerning their support and to promote them in an integrated way, and in the case of food policy innovation to build capacities to strengthen local food policies.
For funders
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To create a benchmark for on-going or proposed projects.
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To enhance connections with other stakeholders and strengthen the network.
