📢 Next stop: OpenLivingLab Days 2026

📅 29–30 September & 1–2 October 2026
📍 Brussels & Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp venue: Flanders Meeting & Convention Center Antwerp (“A Room with a Zoo”)

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#OLLD25 #OLLD26 #OpenLivingLabDays #LivingLabs

✨What a journey!

#OLLD25 in Andorra la Vella brought together our global Living Lab community for collaboration, learning and innovation.

From inspiring keynotes to hands-on workshops and high-impact research sessions, this edition captured the spirit of co-creation and real-world experimentation.

From PRO to FAR: Bridging futures of climate resilience through Living Labs  - OpenLivingLab Days This interactive workshop guides participants in establishing and expanding climate resilient Living Labs. Drawing on real-life experiences from different European cities, regions and communities aimi...

We had a highly productive time at Open Living Lab Days 2025 (OLLD25)! 🚀
A big shout-out to the FARCLIMATE project for co-hosting the collaborative workshop.
Great event, great connections, great focus on climate action!
openlivinglabdays.com/from-pro-to-...

#PROCLIMATE #OLLD25 #ClimateAdaptation

🎬✨ How do #LivingLabs drive #innovation?

🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑Through co-creation with citizens, businesses, research, and public administration, they tailor solutions to the real needs of people and communities.

📹 Don’t miss the latest episode of #i2CATinsights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTnidau7Zk

#OLLD25

☀️ Kicking off Day 2 of #OLLD25 with big energy!

From testbeds to innovation ecosystems, speakers showed how Living Labs help solve complex problems for industry.

🤝Collaboration is competitiveness: when businesses & Living Labs team up, the impact multiplies.

#LivingLabs #Collaboration

🎉 #OLLD25 is live in Andorra!

🌍300+ innovators from 5 continents are here to co-create change
🎥Keynote: To build regenerative futures, we must embrace indigenous knowledge
🗣️Europe–Africa session showed Living Labs drive real impact

#LivingLabs #RegenerativeFutures #InnovationEcosystems

i2CAT at OpenLivingLab Days 2025: Co-creating the Future in Andorra - i2CAT i2CAT will participate once again in the annual flagship event of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). OpenLivingLab Days (OLLD) brings together researchers, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators from around the world to exchange best practices, enhance projects, and co-create solutions for a more sustainable and regenerative future.

🚀 Comença l'#OLLD25 a Andorra, l’esdeveniment anual d'#ENoLL.
🌱 Des d’#i2CAT hi serem amb l'equip de Tecnologies de la Societat Digital, presentant projectes #LivingLab.
👉 Consulta la nostra participació:

Regenerative Futures: The Role of Living Labs and Artists for Community Restoration - OpenLivingLab Days The New European Bauhaus (NEB) envisions a sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful future by bridging art, culture, science, and technology. This session explores how arts and creativity drive regenerat...

Case studies from across Europe show how culture and innovation come together for systemic change.

👉Details: tinyurl.com/yvz5vjvs

#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #RegenerativeFutures #ArtsAndInnovation

From Local Action to Global Transformation: How Living Labs are supporting the Digital Transformation in Africa

📅2 October – #OLLD25

With case studies from Senegal & South Africa,this session explores locally-owned innovation and its role in shaping scalable solutions for sustainable development.

Resilient Local Food Systems: How Living Labs Bridge Local Innovation and Global Transformation - OpenLivingLab Days This session will provide an overview of how local actions driven by Living Labs contribute to global food system transformation. By showcasing real-world examples, it will explore how multi-stakehold...

Details: tinyurl.com/2s7au74r

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#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #FoodSystems #ClimateResilience

Living Labs to support regulatory learning   - OpenLivingLab Days The session will offer an opportunity to discuss with the various participants on their experiences, ideas and questions concerning Living Labs as tools for regulatory learning. It will provide an occ...

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👉 Details: tinyurl.com/2x7pmusk

#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #Governance #Innovation

Living Labs for inclusive soci(et)al engagement - OpenLivingLab Days Following the evaluation procedure the OLLD evaluation committee has accepted the research papers. All papers reflect on the theme of the conference “LIVING LABS FOR REGENERATIVE FUTURES: Connecting L...

This session presents research on:
🌱sustainable community models
👩‍🎓engaging teenagers in climate justice
🍽️local food systems & children’s health
📊data literacy
🤝redefining what makes a Living Lab “living”

Find out more: tinyurl.com/2ey42ncc

#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #Research #Inclusion

Living Lab at a country scale - Andorra Living Lab - OpenLivingLab Days This session explores how startups are using the Andorra Living Lab to develop and test innovative solutions. Three companies from different sectors will share their experiences, learnings, and result...

Hear from: Aurora Crespo, Jordi Ascensi Sala & Oriol Travesset, Xavier Llort and Pere Barnola

Discover how small states can drive innovation at scale 🌍

👉 Full agenda: tinyurl.com/3ys4r75e

#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #Andorra #InnovationEcosystems #CoCreation

Living Labs for Business and emerging technologies  - OpenLivingLab Days Following the evaluation procedure the OLLD evaluation committee has accepted the research papers. All papers reflect on the theme of the conference “LIVING LABS FOR REGENERATIVE FUTURES: Connecting L...

This session brings together research on healthcare technology, greener urban solutions, sustainable farming, industrial symbiosis, AI-enabled impact assessment, and governance models for Smart Cities.

Full details: tinyurl.com/ykcw7j7z

#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #Research #BusinessInnovation

Living Labs for regenerative ecosystems: Soil, Forestry & Water - OpenLivingLab Days This session explores how Living Labs contribute to strategies for the regeneration and restoration of natural ecosystems, such as soil, forestry, and water. It links local innovation ecosystems to gl...

This session, co-organised with the SOILL project, features the European Commission and leading Living Labs exploring how collaboration can regenerate soil, forests, and water systems.

👉 tinyurl.com/b3sck4ns

#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #RegenerativeFutures #Soil #Forestry #Water

Top Contribution Session - OpenLivingLab Days This 90-minute, highly participatory workshop equips Living Lab practitioners, artists, researchers, policymakers, and ecosystem actors with strategies and reusable tools to communicate the value of a...

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👉Full details: tinyurl.com/4f6rnj63

#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #Research #RegenerativeFutures

🚀OpenLivingLab Days 2025: A Space for Every Voice

According to Alexandra Petcu Living Labs give voice to the voiceless reflecting real-life challenges and empowering citizens to co-create: that’s exactly what awaits you at #OLLD25!

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HILL - Hybrid Intelligence Living Lab workshop: How AI can amplify collective intelligence - OpenLivingLab Days The workshop will explore how AI can expanse collective intelligence and positively challenge participants cognitive capabilities. Based on the use of specific AI twin’s prototype and specific methodo...

🔍Systemic model of challenges
💡Collective portfolio of prompts
🗺️AI-driven cartography of stakes

👉Full details: tinyurl.com/37bpbhxy

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#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #AI #HybridIntelligence #CollectiveIntelligence #FutureOfInnovation

Living Labs as Research Infrastructures for Regenerative Futures: Tackling Environmental Implications on Human Health  - OpenLivingLab Days This session explores how Living Labs can support interdisciplinary research on the environmental determinants of human health, aligning with One Health principles and regenerative futures. As recogni...

This session brings One Health principles into action, with case studies and debate on how LLs can:
✓ Align health, environment & society
✓ Provide actionable evidence for policy
✓ Drive sustainable transitions

Learn more: tinyurl.com/jzv356m2

#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #OneHealth #Research

Positioning place potential: empowering place-based synergies in Living Labs through the lens of Urban Leisure and Tourism - OpenLivingLab Days Tourism can be a force for good in cities, and is increasingly seen as a route to quality of live for local citizens and city users. Thriving places and communities are incubators for social innovatio...

Facilitators: Donagh Horgan (Urban Leisure & Tourism Lab Rotterdam), Ko Koens (Inholland University of Applied Sciences), Bernadette Quinn (TU Dublin).

Discover more: tinyurl.com/3au46awc

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#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #UrbanTourism #Placemaking #Sustainability #SocialInnovation

💜Gender Responsiveness in Action: From Strategies to Real Transformation

📅2 October | #OLLD25 - Session

This session brings together voices from research, entrepreneurship & international organizations to show how gender-responsive approaches can reshape science, tech and urban systems.

Unbuilding Exclusion: Towards Inclusive and Accessible Innovation Labs

📅 2 October | #OLLD25 - Workshop

How can we make Living Labs and innovation spaces truly open for everyone?

This workshop will:
🔍 Explore best practices of inclusive labs
🚧 Prototype “exclusive labs” to reveal hidden barriers

🎯Bridging the gap between Living Labs and companies – Towards a stronger collaboration relationship

📅2 October | #OLLD25 – Workshop

This workshop tackles:
🔎Barriers & disconnects from the company perspective
🤝Matching Living Lab services with company needs
📣Co-creating marketing strategies

Learning Lab - Intermediate Track - OpenLivingLab Days This 90-minute, highly participatory workshop equips Living Lab practitioners, artists, researchers, policymakers, and ecosystem actors with strategies and reusable tools to communicate the value of a...

🏙️Donagh Horgan – Place-based social innovation (Inholland & Erasmus University)

🧩Heleen Geerts & Liliya Terzieva – Co-design & storytelling (THUAS)

Deepen your practice before #OLLD25: tinyurl.com/49psuuwf

#LivingLabs #InnovationEcosystems #CapacityBuilding

Codesign of urban and creative factories fostering New European Bauhaus values - OpenLivingLab Days This workshop, rooted in the LAUDS project Horizon Europe, addresses the European challenge of enhancing urban and creativefactories to support a transition to more local sustainable production. Parti...

Part of the LAUDS project (Horizon Europe), this workshop brings together creatives, artists, makers, public actors & researchers to codesign future-proof solutions linking art, tech & Living Labs.

👉Details: tinyurl.com/bdetssv8

#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #NEB #Sustainability #CreativeInnovation

Kick off your #OLLD25 journey with the Learning Lab Day 0 – Basic Track!

📅30 September 2025 | Andorra la Vella

A one-day training for newcomers to build strong Living Lab foundations.

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🤝Together for Caring Technology: How to ensure that care technology serves people and society?

📅1 October | OpenLivingLab Days 2025 – Workshop

👩‍🏫Facilitators: Ingrid Adriaensen & Hilde Vandenhoudt (LiCalab)

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#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #CareTech #HealthInnovation #HumanCentricDesign

From PRO to FAR: Bridging futures of climate resilience through Living Labs  - OpenLivingLab Days This interactive workshop guides participants in establishing and expanding climate resilient Living Labs. Drawing on real-life experiences from different European cities, regions and communities aimi...

👥 With facilitators: Pablo Cabanelas, Ilias Trochidis, Leidy Enríquez, Maria Konstantinidou, Loli Docampo Diéguez & Pilar Muñoz Dueñas

👉 Full details & agenda: tinyurl.com/49fuevbd

#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #ClimateResilience #Sustainability #SocialImpact

🌍On 1 October at #OLLD25, don’t miss the workshop: “Join a Pan-European Community for Gendered Innovation”

Part of the GILL Project, this session helps strengthen inclusive innovation across Europe.

👥Facilitators: Andree Woodcock, Laura Varisco, Sofiane Bari, Gabriella Quaranta & Arianna Marucci

Innovation with Purpose: Embedding Values into Living Labs for Sustainable Impact - OpenLivingLab Days Living Labs excel at user-driven innovation, but how can they move beyond performance metrics to become value-driven ecosystems? This interactive workshop explores the shift from Key Performance Indic...

👩‍🏫Facilitator: Viviana Pérez Clausen

🔗Full details: tinyurl.com/mtywydfx

#OLLD25 #LivingLabs #SocialInnovation #Sustainability #Impact #ValuesDrivenInnovation