GILL

Coordinated by ENoLL, the GILL project develops a pan-European collaboration and learning hub based on the Living Lab principles to become the open innovation framework for all European actors involved in open gendered innovation. GILL co-creates sustainable mechanisms to increase gender responsive smart innovation and entrepreneurship (GRSIE) by fixing practices and culture across the European ecosystems.

The project is implemented through an iterative co-creation approach structured on a four-phases cycle – understand, co-design, implement, evaluate – repeated twice to incorporate the feedback and evaluation results in fine-tuned and validated results. In the context of GILL, 15 Action-Oriented Experimentations operating in 8 European countries are developing new approaches to GRSIE, test, evaluate the changes, and thereby validate GILL’s outputs in real-life open ecosystems.

Through this cycle, GILL delivers a systemic review of barriers to GRSIE leading to the co-design of proven methodologies, services, and tools for GRSIE to be made available on a sustainable and easy-to-use platform. 

In line with the LL methodology, co-creation and open innovation are fostered among the main actors of the Quadruple Helix model – citizens, government, industry, and academia – who are being engaged all along the project through different participatory activities.