🛠️Tracking the Benefit

A method to track your Fab City Hub's impacts

What is it about and why is it relevant ?

Fab City Hub's Network members can communicate the social, cultural and economic impacts that their hub generates for the city and any partners, such as Universities, local municipalities, corporates, charities and EU funders. You could collect data to evidence the impact of your hub include measuring the number of people who have engaged with the hub; the benefits they have gained – such as new work contracts, or social impacts for the community; the numbers of events and activities you have organised; photos of networking sessions; stories from your social media engagement; and case studies detailing individuals/businesses. Events can be valuable to collect feedback in fun, interesting and low-cost ways – helping you capture the softer impacts, which can’t be recorded by any precise measurement. It is valuable to build in regular blocks of time for the core team to work on reviewing, planning and strategy development – this will keep you on the front foot and also make sure your team and community are connected into the bigger strategic picture.

This tool have been selected from a previous toolkit, the Creative Hub Kit, developed by ECHN. Find here ( pag.40) a link to better understand how to find your champions;

Summary Table

Characteristics
Purpose
Difficulty	Easy
Duration	Yearly
Facilitator I Participants	F= hub’s managers I P= hub’s members
Setting	Online and Offline
Contact	[e-mail] [e-mail]
Tagging System	#DocumentToEmpower, Easy