Urban Knowledge Hubs; Co-creation, digital literacy and hybrid spaces
Project: BALTIC UKH
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Urban Knowledge Hubs - Transformative Societal Spaces for Hybrid Libraries in the Baltic Sea Region
BALTIC UKH
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BALTIC UKH
PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
1 Innovative societies
objective
1.2 Responsive public services
Project type
Implementation
August 2023 - July 2025
BALTIC UKH
The project BALTIC UKH helps authorities and education institutions increase digital literacy by designing attractive hybrid spaces for people to learn, interact and exchange reliable information.
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Discover our 4C Toolbox!
We are excited to unveil our online 4C Toolbox – Engaging Users to Transform Public Spaces and Services: A Guide to Participatory Innovation.
The toolbox offers a structured approach to creating Urban Knowledge Hubs – dynamic, multifunctional spaces that foster collaboration, learning, and innovation.
To help you get started, you can download 4C Toolbox posters – inspiration maps available in six languages: English, Danish, German, Latvian, Norwegian, and Polish.
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Project summary
The EU project BALTIC UKH responds to the growing need for spaces and services across the Baltic Sea Region enabling citizens to access and exchange reliable and comprehensible information, thereby fighting disinformation and propaganda.
Currently, we experience a lack in spaces and services tailored to the needs of their end-users, often because their voices are not included in the design process. Although the importance of co-creation activities has become more evident, there is a lack in standards or shortcuts.
To tackle this challenge, the project partners together with the Associated Organizations have developed a research-based toolbox for the participatory design of hybrid and flexible informational spaces using the idea of “Urban Knowledge Hubs” as a new space concept.
Said hubs represent innovative local learning and meeting places interconnected in global information networks, supporting citizens in becoming digitally literate and well-informed. At their core, UKHs foster social innovation since target groups are engaged during their design and implementation as well as ongoing evaluation processes after their initialization.
By offering the toolbox to libraries as well as other public information and services providers, our output will continuously increase the capacity of public institutions to set up their own co-creation processes. Therefore, the 4C toolbox (focusing on co-creation, co-design, co-production and co-evaluation) entails a step-by-step framework, suitable for different contexts, target groups and levels of experience with participatory processes.
The collaboration within this Interreg Baltic Sea Region project has helped to create an output adaptable for the needs of public authorities in urban and rural areas, as well as NGOs and higher education institutions. It includes best practices and has been made publicly available in five languages. With this, we hope to increase the quality of informational spaces and services thereby empowering citizens to become well-informed, while simultaneously increasing user engagement in the development of future communal spaces and services.
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ImplementationAugust 2023 - July 2025
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BALTIC UKH
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0.49MillionTotal
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0.37MillionErdf
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0.02MillionNorway
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BALTIC UKH
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- 53.564867959.985197232769067
- 56.94107839999999524.096704188078494
- 55.6730164512.580996594061457
- 59.92144210.73267
Project partners
Lead partnerState and University Library Hamburg
- TownHamburg
- Region
- CountryGermany
- RegionHamburg
- RepresentativeState and University Library Hamburg
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- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
217,200.00
National Library of Latvia
- TownRiga
- Region
- CountryLatvia
- RegionRīga
- RepresentativeNational Library of Latvia
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
119,000.00
Royal Danish Library
- TownKøbenhavn K
- Region
- CountryDenmark
- RegionByen København
- RepresentativeRoyal Danish Library
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- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
120,400.00
Oslo Metropolitan University
- TownOslo
- Region
- CountryNorway
- RegionOslo
- RepresentativeOslo Metropolitan University
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
37,800.00
Contacts
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Project manager, Financial manager, Communication managerMiriam-Marie GreenState and University Library Hamburg
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