• Aiding the Practice
  • Changing the Theory
  • Mobilizing the Energy
  • Partnering for Prosperity
  • U®Academy
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U®Aide

U®AIDE helps streamlining processes within organizations or between organisations. It is of particular relevance in situations where resource flow is sufficient, but capacity limited to make the most out of the available opportunities. In short, it helps to improve ‘business operations’ and do things better (single loop learning).

Programmatic support

  • Project identification and proposal writing
  • Institutional fundraising
  • Organisational development and coaching
  • Program and project evaluations
  • Action learning support

U®Turn

U®TURN is a change management approach that takes on challenges where people or organizations get stuck in a situation. There may be a need to just change lanes or choose another direction. And in some cases U-turns are required in order to do the right things (double loop learning).

U-theory in practice

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The urgency for the required change should be the main motivation for clients to engage with URAIDE. The outcome may vary from strategic changes to drastic turnarounds. Most importantly: it is about your turn. U®TURN differentiates five phases in organizational change processes: initiating, sensitizing, presencing, co-creating and innovating
Sharmer, O. (2007), U-Theory – Leading from the future as it emerges

U®Move

U®MOVE supports start-ups and helps changing business.
Support is provided in testing business propositions. Context mapping, addressing assumptions and filling out a business canvas are some of the actions undertaken in order to help visualising the assumptions (triple loop learning).

Business Support

U®MOVE is the business support facility of URAIDE. In resourcing it aims at students and young professionals, migrants and entrepreneurs. In product development it aims primarily at the agricultural sector.
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farmers financing farmers

DIBcoop

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Co-implemented with DIBcoop
"The most important resources are local - being embedded in a startup ecosystem is an  important part of entrepreneurship".
        The lean startup

U®Mission

U®MISSION is our brokering facility that matches personal and organizational missions for sustainable development. We connect individuals to professional coaches and support organisations in resourcing programs and projects with individuals that are self-motivated towards the same mission for better performance.

Personal development  & recruitment

  1. We assist people in formulating their personal mission, drive, ambition and core values.
  2. We assist organizations in effectively dealing with staff turnover by giving due attention to personal missions of staff.
  3. We help matching personal and organizational missions in recruitment and reorganization processes.
“Companies with higher levels of engagement are likely to have higher (...) returns”
     Bennett & Bell, 2004, p. 104
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Recruitment

U®Academy

U®Academy is our learning facility for deepening partnerships. It offers organizations, companies, public bodies and other agencies a joint space for learning.

Public Lectures

Regulary open fora, public lectures and panel discussions are held, mostly during the spring season (March - April).

U®Talks (2013)
U®Conversation (2014)
U®Reflection (2015)
​U®Lectures (2017, Management of Development at HVHL)
"A strengthened science-policy-society interface is needed for ensuring that scientific research, technology development and policy both address the needs of society and respond to current and future sustainability challenges."

Issues Brief:  Science, Technology and Innovation, Knowledge-sharing and Capacity-building 2nd HLPF
product-development and services of URAIDE have been scaled down to one day a week due to a commitment towards Tearfund.