Lahti Living Lab

The special focus of the Lahti Living Lab is to integrate the users into the innovation processes of public and private sector innovation and development focusing on all dimensions of sustainability and digitalization. For this purpose, methods and tools are developed and studied to fully enable knowledge creation and exploitation between users and professional developers. The methods of involving and activating the users vary, the encounters take place online but also face-to-face. The special focus of the Lahti Living Lab is to integrate the users into the innovation processes of public and private sector innovation and development focusing on all dimensions of sustainability and digitalization. For this purpose, methods and tools are developed and studied to fully enable knowledge creation and exploitation between users and professional developers. The methods of involving and activating the users vary, the encounters take place online but also face-to-face. Lahti Living Lab is implemented through research and development projects, which all have a common nominator, e.g. the users as active co-creators.

Areas of work:

• Circular Economy
• Education and/or vocational training
• Environment/climate change
• Health and Well Being
• Mobility
• Policies
• Research
• Rural
• Social Innovation & Inclusion