VITALISE

VITALISE opened Living Labs as Research Infrastructures to facilitate and promote research activities in the Health and Wellbeing domain in Europe and beyond by enabling in-person Transnational Access to 17 Living Lab research infrastructures and by supporting remote digital access to datasets (Virtual Access) of rehabilitation, transitional care, and everyday life activities through harmonized processes and common tools.

The VITALISE project promoted the recognition of Living Labs as Research Infrastructures for the Social Sciences and Humanities within the framework of Horizon Europe. VITALISE introduced Living Labs as Research Infrastructures and Living Lab services as resources in the EOSC catalogue.

VITALISE’s main objective was to harmonize access to Living Labs Research Infrastructures for researchers and to contribute to the European Research Area. Vitalise achieved its goals by:

• Facilitating convenient access to research infrastructures for researchers in the Health and Wellbeing domain.
• Enabling direct engagement of individuals to validate hypotheses, co-design solutions and services, evaluate feasibility and effectiveness, and participate in the translation and mobilization of outcomes.

Providing exposure to experiences from multidisciplinary domains such as healthcare management, assistive technologies, and data science to effectively address the complexity of Health and Wellbeing research.