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ABSTRACTThis paper aims to shed light to what extent a financier have learnt about sustainableorganizational change, through development projects taking part in the Swedish knowledgeFoundations program, ICT in Teacher?s training. Some questions asked were: Has theSwedish Knowledge Foundation learnt by researchers? and self evaluation?s ?stirring up? ofongoing projects? What type of learning process has been going on? Has new, mutual,knowledge been constructed or has already existing knowledge been transferred?The study consists of one participating observation and three interviews. They showhow the financed projects have been ?stirred up? so that a developmental learning process hasstarted within their organization. The project, together with the researchers have then ?stirredup? individuals in the financier?s organization and signs, indicating that an individualdevelopmental learning process has been initiated, can be seen.In order to analyze the result, a model showing how sustainable organizational changecan be seen as a product of steering, support and stirring up, is used. Dewey?s theories on hownew knowledge is constructed are central. His thoughts, on how learning, in the sense ofconstructing new knowledge, needs some kind of obstacle or disturbance to be initiated arecentral. In addition to this, Ellström?s (2001) thoughts on developmental learning as well asstrategies for project governance (Svensson & von Otter, 2001) are discussed. Also added arethoughts on interactive research and formative evaluations.