Understanding the links between education, entrepreneurship and employment for young people is fundamental to our work. SpringFactor integrates a strong youth perspective into all our research and policy work, making it our business to include the new generation.

The Sustainable Development Goals aim at partnerships across both public and private sectors to address the most complex global challenges. SpringFactor is specialised to identify which issues matter locally, what holds the problem in its place, and who is key to promoting change. We help clients engage in issues important to the context and for longer periods. The combination of research and engagement helps facilitate the public-private partnerships inspired by the SDGs.

Since April 2012, SpringFactor has delivered services for clients from various sectors: government, diplomacy, international development, knowledge institutions and the private sector. While not all work, part of which took place in challenging environments, can be published, this section summarises the objectives and outcomes of a variety of projects.