Impact of Public-Private Partnerships: Report on PPP's in VET and Higher Education, the Netherlands, 2017-2019

The 'Katapult'-programme is one of the flagship initiatives of the Dutch national STEM platform. The programme is focused on developing and supporting sector-based public-private partnerships in VET and Higher Education. Currently, upwards of 7500 companies are directly involved in hundreds of public-private partnerships co-funded by government and industry with a total budget of nearly 200 million euro.

This translation of the impact report, ‘Impact and Added Value’, comes from Katapult, in collaboration with the Talent for Technology Platform (PTvT) in the Netherlands. The figures in this publication are based on a survey conducted in the spring of 2019 among 191 partnerships and the network chart, with more than 300 partnerships and their partners.