TiREG

Workshops

TiREG frequently organizes workshops or contributes to workshops organized by others. These workshops range from research workshops involving academic researchers and discussion of scholarly work to workshops with practitioners as part of executive programmes. Increasingly, education and research are combined in workshop, while also knowledge creation and dissemination are integrated.

Past workshops

Field Lab Organized Crime Oost-Nederland

From 29 May until 2 June, Martijn Groenleer has been co-directing a workshop combining executive training and coaching, academic research, as well as real-world problem-solving in regard of the fight against organized crime.

The workshop is part of the Field Lab Organized Crime Oost-Nederland that TiREG jointly organizes and coordinates with colleagues from Harvard University and Oxford University, and which is supported by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the National Police and the Province of Gelderland.

As part of this field lab five multidisciplinary teams of professionals involved in the fight against organized crime and its subversive effects are being trained and coached ‘on the job’. At the same time, TiREG researchers study how the teams and individual professionals deal with three common challenges: substantive problem solving challenges, collaborative process challenges and multi-dimensional accountability challenges.

The research is embedded within a larger research project on ‘smart’ collaboration among public-sector and with private-sector parties.

Workshop on ‘Multi-level governance of the energy transition’

On 10 March 2016, TiREG organized a workshop on the ‘Multi-level governance of the energy transition’, in the framework of a Telos conference on ‘Learning in the Region’.

The workshop is part of a research project on new forms of multilevel and multi-actor climate change and energy governance, exploring the link between ‘local’ change, through small-scale experimentation and learning, and large-scale societal transformation.

A variety of participants discussed what lessons can be learned from the implementation of the Brabant Energy Agreement (BEA) as an experiment of social innovation and to what extent these lessons are comparable with seemingly similar processes in other regions such as Gelderland or the northern provinces.

The discussion focused on the implementation process until now, alternative modes of action, and next steps. Participants agreed that although important steps have been taken, a lot of questions remain, especially about how to structure and arrange the governance.

A more detailed report of the workshop (in Dutch) is available upon request.