Knowledge Centre

Knowledge centre for community engagement

Meet with our experts in an annual strategy session per program. Count on their guidance and advice with your local projects.

Case studies

Case studies public participation
Successful launch of digital participation platform in Gemeente Terneuzen
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Neighbourhood Scan: a neighbourhood analysis in collaboration with residents
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Meet citizen engagement expert Dr Jonas De Meulenaere
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Case Study: city of Halle consults citizens at street level with verified survey
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Case studies neighbourhood concierge
[Case study] Hoplr’s solution for Independent Living at the European Social Services Conference in Malmö
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Matching people who need help with those who offer help with Hoplr
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Informal community care and longer independent living with Hoplr
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Volunteering: Five reasons why a smart volunteering programme is neighbourhood-oriented
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Case studies neighbourhood app
Reaching citizens: 20 actions to increase reach on Hoplr
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Nearly 300,000 offline encounters via Hoplr in 2022: help, circular economy and neighbourhood activities
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City of Luxembourg: Community development in the face of great diversity
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Tackling the energy crisis: 9 ways local councils turned to the Hoplr neighbourhoods
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Guides & whitepapers

White paper: Neighbourhood of the future
60 pages of clear concepts and practical tips for caring and sustainable neighbourhoods that benefit all stakeholders
Neighbourhood Concierge Pilot Brussels
Neighbourhood Concierge is an innovative care concept that enables longer independent living, supported by the neighbourhood.

Our experts

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Peter De Smedt

Expertise Project management

Peter is an anthropologist by training and has a lot of international experience with (local) governments and project management. He heads the Customer Success Team and Knowledge Centre. In other words, Peter ensures that our customers are optimally supported.

These are some of his main activities at Hoplr:

  • Support Customer Success Team
  • Setting up and supervising large projects
  • Construction and support of knowledge centre

Experience

SJVBV (international e-commerce company)
Chief Operations Officer / Senior Project Manager

Municipality of Landsmeer
Policy officer and project leader

Skillset

  • Project management
  • Agile Coach
  • Internal communication
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Jonas De Meulenaere

Expertise Data analysis and citizen participation

Jonas has a doctorate in communication sciences. During his PhD at Ghent University, he studied how digital neighbourhood networks play a role in the social fabric of neighbourhoods. Before starting his PhD, Jonas was active as a researcher at the VUB, where he conducted user research into innovative audiovisual applications in domestic and professional contexts. At Hoplr he uses his experience and academic skills to, among other things, guide partners through their participation projects.

These are some of his main activities at Hoplr:

  • Environmental & impact analysis
  • Designing and supervising participation projects
  • Knowledge building & dissemination digital neighbourhood networks

Experience

UGent 6 year and 7 months
Senior Researcher and Teaching Assistant

VUB 3 year
Researcher

Skillset

  • Data collection and analysis
  • Quantitative and qualitative research
  • Designing and supervising participation projects
  • Research on social media use, social capital and social support
  • Environmental & impact analysis
  • Knowledge building & dissemination on digital neighbourhood networks
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Luc Galoppin

Expertise Offline citizen participation

Luc is a seasoned community builder, with his work for the Vicinia knowledge centre as his most striking experience. As director, he focused on a variety of neighbourhood issues every day and therefore has a great deal of knowledge about online and offline citizen participation.

Luc can be engaged as an independent expert for neighbourhood building, with Hoplr's digital neighbourhood network at his disposal.

Experience

MedeMerkers
Co-founder & COO

Organizational Change Practitioners
Founder & Community Manager

Vicinia vzw
Director

Skillset

  • Community management
  • Online and offline citizen participation
  • Project management
  • Community building
  • Neighbourhood diagnosis