Kick-off working session to launch the new co-creation ecosystem model

At the end of 2022, Arantzazulab presented a new proposal and a call aimed at designing and reinforcing the model of the co-creation ecosystem. The innovative call was presented to finance the structure of the ecosystem and its network of stakeholders. In total, 14 were the beneficiaries of the call and today the first session was held in Gandiaga Topagunea, the headquarters of Arantzazulab, with the aim of shaping the new structure.

Why activate the co-creation ecosystem?

A new model has been suggested so that the diverse stakeholders that make up this innovative ecosystem keep it sustainable over time, working in an efficient way, keeping it aligned with its final objective and collaborating on a common goal. This innovative model seeks to strengthen the ecosystem, increase the adhesion of its members, build shared leadership, and multiply the developed knowledge.

In the 2021 call, we focused on the development of co-creation experiments, and in 2022, we started to create a space for co-creation and learning by doing. Now we intend to take a new step, experimenting with a new funding model to maintain the structure and increase its impact over time: instead of covering projects’ costs, resources have been allocated to promote the ecosystem itself; these resources have been shared among the beneficiaries of the call made at the end of 2022 and who are going to be active agents of the ecosystem in 2023.

What is the new co-creation ecosystem model?

It is a working group that connects what different stakeholders are doing and develops new knowledge.

We will need to explore how to move from incremental and progressive capital to transformative capital. This will require moving away from the logic of coordination to the logic of coherence, in order to develop collective leadership.

The explorations of these models is has also sparked interest at the international level, since new ways of doing things to strengthen ecosystems must be sought, as well as different alternatives that promote them.

What about 2023?

We will be working on two levels: On the one hand, we will have to define the details of how the ecosystem will function and how it will be financed. We will need to define elements such as the mission, vision, strategic objectives, how we will conduct the decision making process, how we will share the information between us, how we will finance the ecosystem…On the other hand, we will define the working groups that will be created and their responsibilities and tasks.

First session of 2023

Today has been the first session of 2023 in which representatives of the 15 stakeholders involved in the design of the ecosystem that have been beneficiaries in the call, have joined the reflection on the following questions:

  1. Why have we decided to get involved in the co-creation ecosystem? What do we want to build together?
  2. What does everyone want to receive and contribute?
  3. What would we like to see in 2023?
  4. How are we going to work with each other?
  5. And what are we going to do in each working group?  

In total, four working groups have been set up to carry out the following functions: coordination and advocacy; networking and connecting; experimentation, learning and sharing; observation and evaluation.

We will be sharing the developed work and the lessons learned in our networks. The next session of the co-creation ecosystem will be on the 13th of July.