Tools

Based on the experience of 300 public-private partnerships in the Netherlands, we have developed a series of tools that can help you develop your partnership. Depending on the phase your partnership is in, these tools can be useful for you too. Since we strongly believe in the power of open source, we are more than happy to make these tools available to you. Please contact our team and we will be in touch with you shortly to discuss how we can help you. If we do not have an answer straight away, we will think with you how to find an answer to your question through our network.

Activities

Typical activities that are developed in public-private-collaboration in Vocational Education can be summarized in six categories, or building blocks as we call them:

1. Innovation of curriculum
2. Didactic innovation
3. Life Long Learning
4. Sharing infrastructure
5. Research & development
6. Facilitating & enabling the skills ecosystem

This document briefly explains the various activities, and will be expanded upon. 

Available tools:

• Phase model, to help you determine which actions to take, based on the phase your project is in;
• Impact study questionnaire: a tool used to make a scan of your skills ecosystem and to measure the impact of your project;
• Network map, creating an overview of your partners, which can be published on your own site;
• Various workshop tools to facilitate the discussion with your partners determining your value proposition, such as business canvas modelling;
• Benchmarks with other projects;
• Best practices, including an overview of types of activities;
• Database of contracts and collaboration models;
• Peer review model.

Five phases of public private partnerships

Based on the experience of 300 public private partnerships, we have defined the following five steps as a roadmap for public private collaboration. These steps can be used to determine where you and your partners stand, what next steps to take and how to do this.