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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.

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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 comprises three organisations across three 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 three editorial properties (Space Insights, Voice Sport, and Energy Signals). 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 operates as three legally independent organisations across three countries — Norway, the Netherlands, and Ireland — 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; the first selection, Listen 2.0 under Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships in School Education, is at grant agreement stage, and the remaining results are expected from September 2026. 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. Three editorial properties — Space Insights, Voice Sport and Energy Signals — publish to European sector audiences; the first has filed eighty-six dispatches to date, and the third has yet to publish its first issue.

In 2026 the foresight practice published three environmental scans, on athlete mental health, on federation readiness for the AI Act, and on European ocean intelligence as an emerging governing layer for sport.

External partners include GSIC powered by Microsoft (Norway Ambassador), UEFA Innovation Hub (active dialogue), Tetis Biotech (Turkey), Norwegian Sport Tech, and IMD Lausanne.