Through single-task assignments, such as landscape maintenance or energy-fixing, neighborhood enterprises create multiple values through active community power. Apart from residents, municipalities, health insurers, and housing associations also benefit from the resulting social cohesion and prevention. However, a structural financial contribution from these parties to these social benefits is currently lacking. An innovative financial mechanism that integrates various funding streams is required to provide structural funding for neighborhood enterprises while guaranteeing cost savings for the financing parties. Together with neighborhood enterprises, municipalities, housing associations, and health insurers, we are breaking down barriers and designing this mechanism for cost-avoidance financing.
Economic transition: the costs and benefits of (in)action
What does an economy look like that focuses not on GDP growth, but on well-being, ecology and justice?
What is needed to achieve this sustainable economy and how is our current economic system holding back these changes?
We are exploring these questions from a practical perspective as part of the program: ‘Economic transition: the costs and benefits of (in)action’. Together with partners from academia, the professional sector, government and social movements, we are working to shape this transition, set it in motion and anchor it. In doing so, we actively apply knowledge in practice to bring about a transformation of our current economic system.