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Partnership or collaboration building
- Identifying and creating partnerships with strategic stakeholders like governmental or legislative bodies, commercial industries, technology providers, legal professionals and regulatory authorities.
- Facilitating direct citizen engagement, by providing access through CSO, nonprofit and rechtswinkel partner networks.
- Inclusion of relevant (inter-disciplinary) researchers or students in proposal development or delivery; both from UvA and other academic institutions.
- Identification and evaluation of: technical development partners; legal designers; marketing and communication experts; artists, graphic designers and multimedia producers: as needed for project deliverables.
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Developing and delivering concrete proposals
- Facilitating problem definition through master, phd or post-doc research.
- Proposal drafting, in whole or in contribution to impact sections.
- Development of project delivery plans, including budgets, timelines, risk assessments, activity scoping, sprint planning and communication strategies.
- Development of defined impact goals, matching measurement techniques and a monitoring and evaluation strategy.
- Operational and financial project management during project lifecycle.
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Evaluation and reporting during and upon completion of project.
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Design and testing of justice solutions
- End-to-end management of a Human Centered Design approach to the development of digital or analogue solutions.
- Space in our justice incubator to continue product development and launch a startup, social enterprise or nonprofit.
- Testing and validation of existing justice solutions or MVPs with relevant stakeholders; resulting in improvement suggestions as required.
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Marketing & dissemination strategies
- Development of unique marketing and communication strategies, drawing on our network of artists, filmmakers, storytellers, designers, developers and more.
- Co-design and management of project related events at the Law Hub, Faculty or external locations.
- Indirect access to Law Hub and Law Faculty dissemination channels and communities for project communication.
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Education
Academic or skill-building programmes delivered within the Law Faculty for students, researchers and to external professionals.
- Our award winning Justice Entrepreneurship masters elective (also available in short-form to PPLE students) is a yearly course which trains students to apply Legal Design methodologies towards the development of real justice solutions.
- Professional Education in the form of masterclasses; most recently ‘De Responsieve Overheidsjurist'; developed and delivered with research group ACLPA.
- Clinical education programmes in topics like Climate Justice, Human Rights and Law & Policy as part of the Amsterdam Law Practice.
- Bespoke courses, trainings, tools and knowledge sharing platforms for rechtswinkel students to support professional development, judicial problem solving and improved service delivery; offered at a national level following our establishment of the Nederlandse Vereniging van Rechtswinkels (Dutch Association of Legal Aid Clinics).
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Research
Proprietary knowledge building through our own research, or by supporting faculty academics in their own research activities.
- In-house research on informal, first and second-line legal help including rechtswinkels and legal aid lawyers covering best practices, interdiscip;inary approaches and career trajectories.
- Development and delivery of SkillShare Law; a skill-building programme for researchers which combines intervision, exercises and practical advice.
- Personal grant advisory on research design and knowledge utilisation to all Law Faculty researchers.
- Co-design and hosting of events including research symposia.
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Enterpreneurship
Increasing student engagement with legal innovation and developing services to support the wider entrepreneurial community.
- Offering for 8 justice startups a year of free incubation and trainings; additionally offering investment of €2.500 to 4 through our Startup Fund.
- A series of half day ideation workshops to inspire students at other educational institutions to develop concepts for defined justice problems.
- Development of a new 'rechtswinkel' for entrepreneurs; the Startup & Stichting rechtswinkel; delivered in combination with a yearly floating legal advice clinic: The Incuboater.