Grow Stars Institute Living Lab (GSILL) is a multiple site Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) facility with professional Research & Development & Innovation staff capable of planning, executing, and evaluating complex research & innovation on every field of vertical farming, urban farming, and healthy food production. The facility was established in 2021 using the latest state-of-the-art technologies and by today it represents an ideal connection between R&D and industrial environments for experiments by the involvement of multi-actors. Our Living Lab provides a unique and well-developed infrastructure in every field of CEA. The Living Lab contains 5 individually controllable vertical farm systems in separate rooms, and 3 small scale growth cabinets.
In GSILL the users are involved in every step of the innovation process from the ideation to the market uptake. To co-create an innovative product, service, system, or process in the field of urban farming, vertical farming and food safety, Grow Stars Institute Living Lab introduce its unique Vertical Farm as a Service (VFaaS) solution for stakeholders from the academic, governmental, public, and civil sectors.