TexLabs, Texel’s creative network organization run by industrial designer Pepijn Lyklema, organizes several times a year group visits of higher educational and research institutes to the island, involving hundreds of students and staff members. In order to keep an enduring recollection and a positive evaluation of the contribution of their study work on and for the island, students and staff receive a “Ambassadorship” certificate, signed by Texel’s Vice Mayor.
Source: Texlabs, 2018.
Example of strategy 6C:
Involve visitors as innovation ambassadors
Visitors can be regular island guests but also people who are on the island for just a music festival or an academic conference. Visitors and former inhabitants from the island are the ambassadors of new developments “par excellence.”
