LiCalab – Living and Care Lab

LiCalab is a care living lab that supports businesses and organizations by including end users (citizens, patients, care professionals,…) from the very beginning of the development process until market introduction. LiCalab is a research group within Thomas More University of Applied Sciences. The Living Lab is strongly embedded in its region and has a large regional and international network on citizen, institutional, academic and policy level. LiCalab has its own user panel of approximately 1,200 citizens and healthcare professionals. The focus areas of LiCalab are medical care, (patient) rehabilitation, care technology, assisted living, active and healthy aging, and preventative healthcare. LiCalab gained extensive expertise in methodologies for co-creation, co-design, user experience, stakeholder engagement and participatory approaches and has experience in collaborating with Living Labs on an international scale. In their co-creation lab, LiCalab uses 360° projection, eye-tracking and an interactive table to enhance co-creation methods.

Areas of work:

• AI and Emerging technologies
• Education and/or vocational training
• Health and Well Being
• Policies
• SME and Start-ups
• Social Innovation & Inclusion
• Urban