Welcoming a new ENoLL Effective Member: Energy Living Lab of Western Switzerland

We’re ecstatic to welcome a new Effective Member to ENoLL following the September 2014 General Assembly; Energy Living Lab is an open innovation ecosystem dedicated to energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy in Western Switzerland.

We’re ecstatic to welcome a new Effective Member to ENoLL following the September 2014 General Assembly; Energy Living Lab is an open innovation ecosystem dedicated to energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy in Western Switzerland. It is composed of the University of Applied Science Western Switzerland, host of the Living Lab, Chablais Agglo representing the public authorities of this French speaking region, private companies in the field of energy, together with an association of users.

The goal of the Living Lab is to empower the users of energy (citizen of the region, employees of private companies, members of the association of users…) and integrate them into the innovation process, motivating them to participate, putting the right tools in place to enable a bottom-up dialogue, and translating ideas into sustainable commercial products or services. A toolbox has been developed to propose the right method at the right time of the innovation process, adapted to the needs of different companies and public authorities (crowd-innovation, lead users, service design, ethnography…).

As new members, the team at Energy Living Lab have already become strongly involved in the network, and even submitted an impressive paper for the OpenLivingLab-Days 2014 Conference Proceedings entitled “How to keep a living lab alive? Applying business model canvas criteria to the ENoLL evaluation process”  by Joelle Mastelic, Marlyne Sahakian and Riccardo Bonazzi. Read the paper here.

Read more about Energy Living Lab here.

Discover the other Effective members of ENoLL here.