Some people have difficulties with reading, writing or math, have a low IQ or have difficulties understanding health information. These people are on average less healthy. Yet, little collaboration exists with this group in health research. We want to change this and collaborate on a structural basis. We do this with a permanent advisory group with people from this group. The advisory group advises health scientists on research. We want to encourage fellow scientists to ask the advisory group for advice more often. In addition, we want advisory group members to be able to participate as researchers in some studies.

Increasing urbanisation and worsening congestion in all modes of transport has lead cities to experiment with innovative solutions for passenger and freight transport using less vehicles to transport more people and higher freight volumes, using less space, with less emissions. SUMMALab (Smart Urban Mobility MetA Lab) connects and supports such experiments with tools focusing on ‘business models’, ‘technical monitoring’, ‘mobility and environmental impacts and inclusiveness’ and ‘scalability’ and develops transport models that provide insight into the impacts of innovative solutions when applied in combination, at higher penetration rates and for larger areas. SUMMALab facilitates cross-location learning and accelerates scaling up.

Social resilience is seen as the panacea for challenges ranging from deepening inequalities, polarisation to the energy transition. But how can social resilience be created? Working with partners from government, professional, and knowledge institutions, this project will study social interventions in eight Dutch cities that seek to bolster social resilience by crafting new relations between the state and groups of marginalized citizens. How do social professionals work with policymakers and citizens to envision new state-citizen relations, and how do they deal with the conflicts, dilemmas and power relations they encounter?