With the June edition of the ENoLL newsletter we have announced new ENoLL members. These Living Labs have passed the quality assessment by an evaluation team and are therefore invited to join the network as adherent members. The 12th wave welcoming ceremony will be held at the OpenLivingLab Days in Geneva, Switzerland (22-24 August). This year ten members from eight different countries passed the assessment.
“Kiraki” is a club of professionals with a portfolio of social innovation projects, startups and development initiatives. The team has set up and run the first Social Innovation Lab in Armenia – Kolba Lab – in the heart of UNDP Armenia. Kolba Lab professionals are passionate about experimentation, testing new approaches and building networks of creative people with new ideas.
Country: Armenia
Hosted by IPERIA l’Institut (an association which has been contributing to the professionalisation of domestic work) UDD explores the invisible practices, activities, skills, that are developed at home and that people do unconsciously. Usually, these practices are invisible, not because they do not exist, but because they are not considered important. Main goal of the Living Lab is to highlight them, to give them value, and to co-create trainings, products, services and good practices, to give people solutions to benefit from all of them. This will also enable the professionalisation of domestic abilities. The UDD has the capabilities to create user-centred solutions to help people to live better at home.
Country: France
The French Living Lab collects data on the deployment of telemedicine in France and around the world. It does so through a Telemedicine Observatory and analyses it to produce information. The Living Labs strives to improve the quality of eHealth / Telemedicine solutions in member institutions by creating a collaborative platform to build knowledge, share resources and case studies, provide leadership and encourage community development.
Country: France
Aktan Living Lab focuses on creating mobile tools. The Living Lab strives to be an in situ user research tool for exploration, co-designing and testing. To enable the possibility of in situ workshops through which a wide range of people is integrated, the Living Lab takes advantage of mobile infrastructures. It has collaborated with numerous companies and event expanded its activities to Poland.
Country: France
K8 is developing projects with the aim of actively participating in this design process, structuring it, developing the dependencies created by digitisation, developing opportunities for participation, and making them tangible in such a way that they become the subject of joint reflection and decision can. K8 is particularly interested in the role of collaborative design methodologies in processes of organisational development and has already co-develop a Collaboration Design Toolkit in cooperation with OuiShare.
Country: Germany
Torino City Lab emerged from “Living Lab pilots” in the field of “civic technologies” applied to urban environment at a district scale and has scaled-up to a new administrative policy framework initiated by the Torino municipality – “Torino City Lab”. The Living Lab aims to provide real-life testing environments for “frontier innovation” in smart cities.
Country: Italy
Host organisation, ARIES Transilvania, is an industry driven IT association that has developed a Living Lab with the aim of
highlighting the potential of existing innovation ecosystem in the Cluj-Napoca region of Romania.
Country: Romania
MediaLab UGR, born in the University environment, acts as a meeting point for research, analysis, and the dissemination of opportunities generated by digital technologies in the areas of culture and society. The Lab places special emphasis on prototyping and open knowledge.
Country: Spain
MDH Living Lab@IPR is founded on a unique network of collaboration and co-creation with industry and municipalities in the region, which has been established over more than ten years. It is hosted by Malardalen University which employ co-creation strategy across research and education. The Living Lab employs co-creation techniques when working with SMEs and municipalities.
Country: Sweden
Ecopol Living Lab for Quality of Life also known as Ecopol Ecovillage (or Labo Vivant Ecopol in French) is a unique Living Lab with three ecocenters in Switzerland established in 1993. The Living Lab is designing living socio economical pilots and has tackled the challenge of living in a Living Lab among other projects.
Country: Switzerland
Once the new members have been officially accepted in the network, you will be able to explore in details their profiles under the network page.