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Who our work is for

ASK-Solutions does not work from the idea that people must first fit into a fixed target group. The same person may at one moment want to learn something, at another share knowledge, need help with a practical question, recover from a difficult period, or take part in a project simply because it is interesting and meaningful.

The pages below are therefore entry points into our work. They help people, referrers and collaboration partners recognise where a question may connect, but they do not define who someone is and they are not general admission categories.

People, makers and communities

For people who want to make, repair, investigate, create, meet others, share experience or contribute to work that can have meaning for others.

Read about people, makers and communities

Learning and development

For children, young people, students, independent learners, interns, people returning to learning and experienced people who want to pass knowledge on.

Read about learning and development

Recovery, work and participation

For people for whom rhythm, meaning, confidence, being outside a familiar environment, learning, volunteering, participation or work take shape step by step.

Read about recovery, work and participation

Technical and digital self-reliance

For people and organisations who want to understand technology, data and systems better and retain more actual control over them.

Read about technical and digital self-reliance

People are not the sum of labels

An audience description can be useful for policy, funding or collaboration, but it can easily make reality smaller. Someone who arrives with a laptop may at the same time have a repair question, want to understand how the device works, have little financial room, be trying to go somewhere again after illness, and possess technical experience that may later help someone else.

We therefore start, as far as possible, with the person, the question and the concrete situation. Goals, environment, responsibility and capacity can then be aligned without turning a temporary characteristic into a fixed identity.

The thinking behind this

The audience structure follows the same view of the human being as the goals of ASK-Solutions. A person is not exclusively a consumer, employee, patient, learner, maker or expert. People move between roles and can at the same time be dependent and self-reliant, learning and carrying knowledge, vulnerable and responsible.

That is also why the work cannot be confined to a single domain. A technical problem can become a question about autonomy. A practical activity can create room for recovery or memory. A conversation can lead to knowledge transfer. A social question can reveal that a digital or organisational system makes people structurally dependent.

People, partners and operators

Schools, public authorities, employers, care and support organisations, foundations and companies may themselves benefit from knowledge or technical self-reliance. They may also be a partner, referrer, commissioning party or funder. Information about building such relationships can be found under Collaborate.

The Owl’s Nest is one project through which ASK-Solutions can put parts of its goals into practice. The project is built around a shareable work model that can be implemented by operators at different locations. The organisation-wide audiences of ASK-Solutions are therefore not limited to one location, one city or one project.

What we want to achieve

Read from which questions the goals of ASK-Solutions are built.

View our goals

Projects

See different ways in which those goals are investigated and put into practice.

View our projects

Collaborate

Find routes for education, public authorities, social organisations, care, companies and other partners.

View ways to collaborate