In August, horizont3000 unveiled its latest innovation to stakeholders: the Knowledge Hub, an advanced platform designed to serve as the digital backbone of horizont3000’s learning and sharing activities. The Knowledge Hub represents a significant evolution from the previous knowhow3000 platform. Built on Microsoft SharePoint, it is more than just a repository of information—it is a dynamic and flexible hub that incorporates up-to-date functions to improve knowledge transfer.
The platform is built to be intuitive and accessible, so that users can easily locate resources, which have been useful to their peers, as well as actively upload and share their own ones. With its additional question and discussion board, the Knowledge Hub is set to become a useful learning and sharing centre for practitioners, advisors, programme coordinators, partner and member organisations alike.
1. Library
Sortable and filterable via tags, the library holds over 2.500 knowledge products, including:
2. Topic Pages
horizont3000 works across various sectors and areas. These pages support practitioners with:
3. Communities of Practice (CoP) Area
This area is a dedicated space for:
The Knowledge Hub is designed with practical, real-world applications in mind. Here are two examples of how it can be used:
1. Facilitating Workshops
An Advisor is supporting her Partner Organisation in facilitating a workshop on climate and environment and the interlinkages with gender equality. She remembers that on the K-Hub there is an Organisational Toolbox. There she finds guides and many tips and tricks for the facilitation of workshops, in person as well as online.
She wonders if there have already been similar workshops within the h3 network. A quick search of the library reveals this to be the case. Filtering via the tags “Climate Action”, “Gender”, and “Training Material” she can narrow down her search. Scrolling through the files she finds inspiration for workshop procedures, programmes, and some interesting presentations, which she could adapt.
A training with a topic very similar to their own and even held in the same country catches her attention. After seeing one of the presentations, she decides to contact that speaker and ask if she would like to present something similar at their workshop.
2. Organising Exchange and Learning Visits
A partner is in contact with another organisation who is working on the same issues and wants to know if a “Learning Visit” would be worthwhile. On the K-Hub she navigates to “Learning Visit” and can read through the experiences other partners already had.
Deciding this is what they are looking for, she reads through the step-by-step guide and learns about the requirements. She then downloads the application template and gets in contact with the responsible h3 colleague. After the application is accepted, she comes back to the K-Hub and downloads required files like report templates or action plans.
After the visit, she shares the learnings and uploads all relevant material from the visit to the corresponding folder. She might be interested to capitalise the visit’s learnings further, so she visits the “Experience Capitalisation” or “Storytelling” page on the K-Hub to learn more.
The Knowledge Hub is primarily targeted at horizont3000 staff and our stakeholders, foremost partner and member organisations. It is not a publicly accessible site, but interested parties can ask for access by contacting us directly. After an email address is registered, the log-in works with a simple verification process. Those with a horizont3000 email account can log in directly.
