CommuniLab: A Hub for Community-Driven Innovation
27/03/2025
Empowering Communities Through Innovation
OpenLivingLab Days (OLLD) is the annual gathering of the global Living Lab community. A space for public officials, companies, entrepreneurs, academics, living lab representatives, and innovators to connect and work together: to create new products and services, to set the basis for debate and exploration of theories, and to discuss and process policy recommendations within the practical elements of open and user-driven innovation. Through interactive panel discussions, hands-on workshops with leading experts and site visits to our local partners, OLLD offers an exclusive networking and knowledge sharing experience. Join Living Labs, companies, public officials, policy makers, researchers, non-profits and entrepreneurs to:
During Open Living Lab Days 2019 we will focus on methodologies and theoretical challenges of co-creating innovation with stakeholder communities. The main interest is to understand how Living Labs can contribute to generate and transfer innovation processes by integrating Action Design Research from local communities to global contexts.
Why Co-creation?
Why “from local to global”?
A Living Lab is an innovation intermediary, which orchestrates an ecosystem of actors in a specific region. Its goal is to co-design product and services, on an iterative way, with key stakeholders in a public private people partnership and in a real-life setting. One of the outcomes of this co-design process is the co-creation of social value (benefit). To achieve its objectives, the Living Lab mobilises existing innovation tools and methods or develop new ones. (Mastelic, J., (2019), Stakeholders’ engagement in the co-design of energy conservation interventions: The case of the Energy Living Lab, Doctoral Thesis, University of Lausanne).
LLs are both practice-driven organisations that facilitate and foster open, collaborative innovation, as well as real-life environments or arenas where both open innovation and user innovation processes can be studied and subject to experiments and where new solutions are developed. LLs operate as intermediaries among citizens, users, stakeholders, research organisations, companied, cities and regions for joint value co-creation, rapid prototyping or validation to scale up innovation and businesses. LLs have common elements but multiple different implementations. Let’s discuss together how to better co-create innovation!
The European Network of Living Labs invites you to send a contribution to work on the theme of Co-creating Innovation: Scaling up from Local to Global. If you have a great case study, a piece of research or on-going project you want to share with the Living Lab community, then we encourage you to submit a paper to the conference. As a practitioner, a researcher, a student, a member of a public authority, you can share your experience with the largest community of Living Labs, so do not hesitate to take part.
You can submit papers in four different categories to encourage a diverse participation of actors:
OpenLivingLab Days 2019 brings together both academics and managers from fields of innovation and fields applying Living Labs and Living Laboratories to explore the benefits Living Labs provide for a variety of stakeholders. The 10th edition of the Living Lab Research Day at the Open Living Lab Days conference is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to:
Chair Prof. Tuija Hirvikoski – Laurea University
Chairs Prof. Anna Stålbröst and Dr. Ali Payab – Luleå Uiversity of Technology
Chairs Prof. Panagiotis Bamidis – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ömer Onur – Başakşehir LL Istanbul
Chair Dr. Joëlle Mastelic – HES-SO Valais
Chair Prof. Tuija Hirvikoski – Laurea University
This track is open to submission for any topic connected to co-creating innovation in a Living Lab environment.
Chairs Prof. Anna Stålbröst – Luleå University of Technology
Dr. Brigitte Trousse – Inria, University Côte d’Azur
This provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers. Extended abstracts will be discussed by PhD students during the session and relevant feedback for improvement and further development of their research will be provided.
The conference committee is inviting academic and practice submission, as well as workshop sessions and doctoral papers. Open Living Lab Days encourage submissions from academics, researchers, practitioners, private, NGO and public sector agencies, policy makers, students, and all those interested in co-creating innovation. If one of the authors is a PhD student, please indicate it on the track selection. A doctoral consortium session will be dedicated to PhD researches. Please consider all papers have to be submitted in English language.
You can choose between one of the four paper categories:
| Full Research Papers | |
| Description | Full research papers refer to complete research with clear results |
| Length | 5.000 words |
| Instructions | Papers go through a double-blind review process that evaluates their significance, originality, contribution and clarity. Upon acceptance please make sure that at least one author registers to secure a slot for their presentation in the conference program. |
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| Research-in-progress Papers | |
| Description | The Research in Progress category is for work that will NOT be completed before the conference. Participants will give an overview of their research purpose and progress, not a paper presentation, as the category’s purpose is to allow for discussion and feedback on work in progress. |
| Length | 2.000 words |
| Instructions | Papers go through a double-blind review process that evaluates their significance, originality, contribution and clarity. Upon acceptance please make sure that at least one author registers to secure a slot for their presentation in the conference program. |
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| Doctoral Consortium Papers | |
| Description | The Doctoral Consortium papers are extended abstracts, including references, describing your research and central aspects of your PhD work. |
| Length | 2.000 words |
| Instructions | Submitted papers will be go through a peer review process.
When preparing your paper please include the context and motivation that drives your dissertation research, objectives/goals/questions of your research, keywords, hypothesis and thesis, and/or problem statement, research methods, results to date and their validity, as well as references from the literature. |
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| Innovation Papers | |
| Description | These submissions describe Living Lab practices and experiences from e.g. innovation processes/projects, implementation of innovations, Living Lab management, as well as innovations supporting Living Lab practices.
Our primary emphasis is on papers that advance the understanding of, and show how to deal with, practical issues related to Living Lab practices in real-world contexts |
| Length | 5.000 words |
| Instructions | Submitted papers will go through a peer review process. The Industry track is distinct from the Research Track in that submissions either discuss real-world experiences of Living Lab projects and/or practices or insights from innovations. |
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by referees assigned by the Scientific Steering Committee for acceptance or rejection. The Scientific Steering Committee is chaired by:
Evaluators are chosen jointly by Chair of the Research Day Committee and ENoLL Director. Priority will be given to qualified ENoLL members. Papers submitted to OpenLivingLab Days 2019 will be evaluated on their appropriateness of theme for the conference, scientific quality, innovativeness and the final recommendation of the Scientific Steering Committee. Authors submitting a paper are also invited to review papers for the conference.
Accepted contributions will be published in the Conference Proceedings of Open Living Lab Days 2019 with an ISBN number. Additionally, the ENoLL Scientific Steering Committee will assess the option of inviting best papers submitted to Open Living Lab Days 2019 for publication on a Special Issue in a peer-reviewed journal.
By submitting your paper, you are hereby authorizing ENoLL to publish your paper in the Open Living Lab Days 2019 Conference Proceedings which will be part of the Research Day of Open Living Lab Days in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Notification of acceptance will be sent on 31 May 2019.
Please submit your final paper here by the extended DEADLINE of May 13th, 2019.
Should you have any questions, contact [email protected] with “Paper Submission for OLLD19” as email subject.
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