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“Support for Design from Public Entities” event by the Galician Innovation Agency (GAIN)
On September 23, the Galician Innovation Agency (GAIN), through the CIS Tecnoloxía e Deseño, held an online dissemination event under the frame of the European

SME toolkit for understanding customers

The Cardiff Market Project and Building Bridges: PDR User-Factor Pilots

Design Pilots in Portugal completed
Under the USER-FACTOR “Design for user-driven innovation” project, financed under the INTERREG programme for innovation in the Atlantic area, Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (www.spieurope.eu) two

Bringing Creativity to Business
PDR via the User Factor project aims to bring design thinking and creative policy to small and medium sized business throughout Wales. The support will

Thinking Ahead Through Design – Design thinking innovation creating customer centred value
The main aim of this programme is to strengthen innovation in small and medium businesses by supporting them to use design as a tool for

2nd edition of the Design for Business course
User Factor’s project coordination in Portugal, led by SPI, is promoting the 2nd edition of the Design for Business course (DfB). This course is organized

First edition of the Design for Business programme was successfully completed
Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI – www.spieurope.eu), together with Porto Design Factory (https://www.ipp.pt/inovacao/porto-design-factory), successfully organized the first edition of the Design for Business programme, powered

Top tips to support your design journey – available for download
Please check these 3 guides have been developed to support customers with the creation and delivery of their design project. This includes finding the right

BY DESIGN EVALUATION

UF Business Development Workshop: Service Design & Business in the New Decade

Summary of the Factoría de Diseño (Design Factory) Pilot in Gran Canaria

USER-FACTOR X-FACTOR IN BUSINESS in BELFAST DESIGN WEEK

Developing Evaluation Framework for Design Support Programme
At the end of September, User-Factor partners came together for the fourth time to learn together and exchange their experiences from across the Atlantic regions.

Opening session for the Design Support Pilot in Galicia
On the 15th of May 2019, GAIN celebrated the event “Design, good practices, action proposals and SME support”. The aim of the event was to

Cardiff Market Service Design Programme 2019 – Phase 1
The Cardiff Market Service Design Programme 2019 is one of eight regional design support pilots being developed through the User-Factor project. User-Factor leading partner PDR

USER-FACTOR – Knowledge Exchange Workshop 3
On Wednesday the 13th of March, the third USER-FACTOR knowledge exchange workshop; ‘Implementing design support pilots’ took place at the City of Culture of Galicia

USER-FACTOR Workshop 3 taking place in Santiago de Compostela
In the previous workshop, partners framed the objective of their design support pilot and identified relevant stakeholders to engage with. In the following months each

The Galician Innovation Agency (GAIN) held a workshop on “Strategies for the protection of the design
Last October 25th, The Galician Innovation Agency (GAIN) held a workshop under the heading “Strategies for the protection of the design”. About 50 people attended

USER-FACTOR partnership meets in Dublin
On Wednesday the 10th of October, the second USER-FACTOR knowledge exchange workshop; developing design pilots, took place in the Aviva Stadium; Ireland’s national rugby and

Towards a Design Action Plan for Northern Ireland
On 7th September 2018, iLab and PDR hosted an exploratory workshop to look at the drivers and barriers to the more strategic use of design



Kick-off meeting in Edinburgh
On 20-21 March 2018, project partners met in Edinburgh to inaugurate the USER-FACTOR project. The event hosted by Scottish Enterprise combined the first Steering Committee