<< Objectives >>The Change Agents project wishes to bring the academic sector and the NGO ecosystem closer to one another and generate deeper understanding between these important stakeholders, allowing stakeholders to advance a more collaborative, inclusive and participatory practice of design and design education, while recognizing the already existing knowledge of activists and various stakeholders, using innovative approaches of social design.<< Implementation >>The Background mapping activity aims to gain a deeper understanding on the already existing practices on the cross-section of social design and NGO related field work. The Implementation piloting activity seeks empirical knowledge and creates innovative results on the theoretical and structural approach by testing its feasibility in a form of local pilot events. During the Syntheses and recommendation activity a comprehensive methodological recommendation (blueprint) will be created.<< Results >>The project produces a methodological recommendation blueprint on how to establish qualitative approaches for participatory collaborations between the HEI and NGOs using social design tools, which will be achieved by background mapping, piloting, syntheses. Results will contribute to the improvement of innovative practices at the intersection between HEIs and other sectors to develop pilot cooperation strategies that will later present the potential to be integrated within educational modules.