BIRD Living Lab

Bird Living Lab is situated at the Biosphere Reserve of Urdaibai (in the Basque Country, North of Spain) in the Urdaibai Bird Centre. Its mission is to co-create, test, and validate ICT products for environmental management and derivate services and scale them up to new markets, as well as create a community of knowledge in environmental management and smart communities, generating a dynamic launching of innovation and new business structures in this area, allowing an emerging sector in which Europe can be leader. Bird Living Lab focuses on the definition and establishment of a Living Lab approach and methodology to speed and strengthen the projects development, as well as for prototyping of the ideas and products, as well as for final users’ involvement in the process. Furthermore, it provides a new way of thinking, not just within the project methodology, but also within the project outcomes and potential, re-thinking about the technology developed, giving new uses, and expending their potential market to new sectors and countries, generating new business opportunities.

Areas of work:

• Circular Economy
• Energy
• Environment/Climate Change
• Policies
• Regulatory Learning
• Rural
• Smart Cities and Regions
• SME and Start-ups
• Social Innovation and Inclusion
• Zero Pollution and Decarbonization