SMART Living Lab

SMART is a Living Lab (LL) designed to act as a user-centric open innovation ecosystem attached to the value potential of new markets. The facilities of University of Western Macedonia and residential prosumers in the district of Central and Western Macedonia in Greece compose the real testing environment. SMART aims to balance the public action considering the generality of citizens’ concern through the active participation of users. The different climate conditions and geographical particularities of the users allow a wide range of real-life testing, including actors with little economic weight. The team of SMART LL, consisting of Professors, post-doc researchers, PhD candidates and engineers, aims to create strong ties between the academia and the local business infrastructure with special focus on SMEs. SMART is based on the pillars of research, education and industrial testing. Through the educational dimension, the students can have access to records and assets of actual users

Areas of work:

• Energy
• Environment/climate change
• Research
• Rural
• Smart Cities and Regions
• SME and Start-ups
• Zero pollution & decarbonization