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Learning Communities

In a Learning Community, companies, educational institutions and research institutions work closely together and learning, working, innovation and research are optimally connected. After all, innovation has the greatest chance of success if people can develop, adopt and apply innovations in practice.
In a Learning Community:

  • partners develop innovative solutions together;
  • they translate experiences into an optimal and up-to-date educational offering;
  • they train employees in the skills needed to work with the innovations;
  • they continuously exchange insights and experiences to arrive at improved concepts/techniques.

Towards 100 Learning Communities and joint research in 2023

The top sectors want to help realize at least a hundred Learning Communities over the next four years. In addition, together with NWO, TNO and SIA, they are committed to a joint research program Learning Communities, focused on knowledge that allows organizations and professionals to translate innovations even better into their work and education. And the top sectors work in innovation pilots on social innovation and collaborate in the field of labor market research. All knowledge and good examples are actively shared, so that as many parties as possible can benefit from this.

In these and many other ways, the number of innovative partnerships is being increased. And the impact that their activities have on answering major social issues in the Netherlands will also become even greater.

Active Learning Communities:

For more information about the Learning Communities, please consult the Overzicht Learning Communities . This document provides an update of 18 Learning Communities within the ChemistryNL and Top Sector Energy that are active within the Industry in September 2021. This list is not complete but gives a good idea of ​​the activities, topics, industry involvement and the different types of knowledge training.

For more information about Learning Communities, you can also visit the website of the joint Top Sectors. Are you looking for a community to join or are you looking for support in setting up a new partnership where people work, learn and innovate? Please contact Onno de Vreede.