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Collective Innovation is a purpose-driven European innovation ecosystem. Founded in Oslo in 2019, it works across sport, space, and energy & climate through four practices — Foresight, Learn, Project Hub, Amplify.
Appendix I · The Press Kit
For writers who are kind enough
to cover the work.
A small set of materials assembled for journalists, editors, and researchers. Use any of it; revise any of it honestly; let us know when you publish, so we can send word to the people who were written about.
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Collective Innovation (COLIN) is a purpose-driven European innovation ecosystem headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Founded in 2019 by Håkon Ege, it now comprises five organisations across four countries, working across three long-horizon sectors: sport, space, and energy & climate. Its method has four practices — Foresight, Learn, Project Hub, and Amplify — applied sector by sector. The ecosystem has delivered 35+ EU-funded projects under Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe, operates a sector-intelligence database of 850,000 records, and publishes two live editorial properties (Space Insights and Sport Insights). It is published openly and revised when new evidence warrants it.
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Collective Innovation (COLIN) is a purpose-driven innovation ecosystem founded in Oslo in 2019 by Håkon Ege. It now operates as five legally independent organisations across four countries — Norway, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Turkey — connected by a shared method and a shared editorial voice.
The ecosystem works in three long-horizon sectors: sport, space, and energy & climate. Its method has four practices: Foresight (signal scanning and scenario-building for federations and public agencies), Learn (personalised professional development programmes), Project Hub (EU-funded capacity-building, pilots and research), and Amplify (platforms and editorial properties that carry the work past its originating room).
COLIN has delivered over thirty-five EU-funded projects under Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe. In the March 2026 submission window it filed forty-two proposals across fifty-five total participations. Its Amsterdam data desk operates a sector-intelligence database of 850,000+ records across 97 tables, with Cordis integration and entity resolution on 90,000+ organisation masters. Two live editorial properties — Space Insights and Sport Insights — publish weekly to European sector audiences, without COLIN branding.
External partners include GSIC powered by Microsoft (Norway Ambassador), SI Space Industries (Italy), UEFA Innovation Hub (active dialogue), Tetis Biotech (Turkey), Norwegian Sport Tech, and IMD Lausanne.
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- Founded
- 2019
- Founder
- Håkon Ege
- HQ
- Oslo · Norway
- Organisations
- 5
- Countries
- 4
- Active sectors
- 3
- Practices
- 4
- EU projects delivered
- 35+
- March MMXXVI submissions
- 42
- Participations (total)
- 55
- Coordinator roles
- 6
- Database records
- 850,000+
- Space signals tracked
- 445
- Live editorial properties
- 2
- Operating hubs
- 5 cities
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§ IV · Correspondence
For interview requests, fact-checking, or a quiet read
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We reply in person. No PR auto-responders.
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— Collective Innovation
Oslo, Spring Edition · MMXXVI