
The SEE Platform is a network of 11 European partners engaging with national and regional governments to integrate design into innovation policies and innovation programmes. Between 2012 and 2015, SEE is operating as part of the European Commission’s European Design Innovation Initiative (EDII). EDII seeks to embed design for user-centred innovation in government policies and company strategies across the European Union. The challenge we face is convincing a wider audience of the potential for design to foster innovation among SMEs and deliver innovative solutions for products, services, society and the public sector.
The SEE Platform is a network of 11 European partners engaging with national and regional governments to integrate design into innovation policies and innovation programmes.
Between 2012 and 2015, SEE is operating as part of the European Commission’s European Design Innovation Initiative (EDII). EDII seeks to embed design for user-centred innovation in government policies and company strategies across the European Union.
The challenge we face is convincing a wider audience of the potential for design to foster innovation among SMEs and deliver innovative solutions for products, services, society and the public sector.
Design is an approach to problem-solving that is creative, user-centred and viable. Through new research, workshops for policy-makers and programme managers, case studies, policy recommendations and the annual Design Policy Monitor, SEE aims to build a bank of evidence to support public authorities to integrate design into their mainstream practice.
Our key objective is to engage with 100 public authorities across Europe over three years. Innovation policy-makers and programme managers can attend free workshops on themes such as design policy, business support for small companies, service innovation, social innovation and academia-industry collaboration to gain practical insight into how design can realise policy priorities.
- Design Wales - Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales
- Design Flanders, Belgium
- Regional Development Agency of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Danish Design Centre, Denmark
- Estonian Design Centre, Estonia
- Aalto University, School of Art & Design, Finland
- Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences, Finland
- KEPA - Business and Cultural Development Centre, Greece
- Border, Midland and Western Regional Assembly, Ireland
- Castle Cieszyn, Poland
- Design Council, UK



