Insights from a year-long study on cross-sector collaboration tackling youth crime recruitment in Sweden
About this event
Join us for an exploration of how transformative innovation policy (TIP) can be employed to support cross-sectoral collaboration in addressing one of society’s most complex and urgent challenges.
This session will focus on a project, funded by Vinnova, Sweden’s national innovation agency. It has worked to address a particularly urgent and complex societal challenge attracting considerable political attention: how to prevent children and youth at risk from getting drawn into organised crime. Sweden is facing an alarming trend in which an increasing number of young people are being recruited into organised crime and committing serious crimes.
Led by Förnyelselabbet, the project team brings together a diverse range of expertise, including researchers in innovation, design, social work, and criminology, alongside representatives from the Swedish Police Authority and the County Administrative Board.
By utilising systemic and speculative design methods, the project has facilitated workshops to identify the enablers and barriers to business engagement in public measures. A core component of this work involves a “futures lab,” where stakeholders and decision-makers experience alternative futures and explore potential pathways toward systemic change and more integrated, cross-sectoral crime prevention.
During the event, we will share key insights from the project, the methods used, and suggestions on how the project’s findings may inform transformative innovation policy making.
This session within TIPC’s Open Learning Series is open to STI funders, analysts, researchers and policy makers.
Language of delivery will be in English.
Contributors
This TIPC session will be led by Susanne Nilsson, a researcher in innovation management at KTH Royal Institute of Technology https://www.kth.se/profile/suni and Pia McAleenan, CEO Förnyelselabbet. www.fornyelselabbet.se
The session will be introduced and facilitated by TIPC’s Global Programme Manager, David Brimage.
More about the project