Collaborative Innovation in Healthcare: the power of Living Labs in advancing healthcare research and innovation
TIME
11:00 – 12:15
TRACKS
TRACK 1: Living Labs for Grand Societal Challenges.
ORGANISER
Evdokimos Konstantinidis Panagiotis Bamidis, Despoina Petsani, ThessAHALL (ThessAHALL), Chris Moscardi, Marta Martorell (i2Cat)
Target Audience
Policymakers and city representatives; Companies and entrepreneurs; Researchers and academics; Living Lab representatives and practitioners
Type of Session
Topic Debate
DESCRIPTION
This session explores how Living Labs can enhance research initiatives and address participation barriers for healthcare professionals. Living Labs, as dynamic ecosystems, unite academia, industry, government, and civil society to co-create and refine digital solutions for real societal needs. We will examine their role in clinical research, focusing on their operational framework and impact on engaging stakeholders.
The session audience will acquire practical insights into how Living Labs can effectively transform hospital and healthcare structures to facilitate research and innovation in healthcare. Through real-world examples and case studies as well as a lively panel discussion with experts in the field, attendees will have the opportunity to explore the operational framework of Living Labs and how it can be used to support research in clinical settings.
An article summarizing session discussions will disseminate insights on overcoming research challenges in clinical environments and propose actionable frameworks leveraging Living Labs. This will support the broader use of Living Labs and their methodologies in clinical research, contributing to inclusive and impactful innovation.
This session is supported by the INTEGER initiative, which creates the INTEGER 4 Helix model for inclusive innovation across the EU.
Agenda
- Presentation of the WG and the session objectives – 5’
- Presentation of the panelists – 5’
- Panel discussion– 45’
- Questions and interaction with the audience – 15’
- Wrap-up and closing – 5’
SPEAKER BIOS
Dr. Evdokimos I. Konstantinidis
ENoLL Chairperson
Dr. Evdokimos I. Konstantinidis
ENoLL ChairpersonDr. Evdokimos I. Konstantinidis (evdokimosk@gmail.com) is the Chairperson of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) with more than 170 members worldwide, coordinator of the Health and Wellbeing Living Labs Working Group and postdoc researcher at the Medical Physics and Digital Innovation Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He coordinated the Research Infrastructure H2020 project, VITALISE – aiming to harmonize the procedures of Health Living Labs. He is currently the coordinator of the RAISE Horizon Europe funded project on services for the European Open Science Cloud and the Horizon Europe project Engaging the Value Of Living Labs to Innovate Care And Regulatory Environments as a response to the call for experimentation frameworks.
Panagiotis Bamidis
Thessaloniki Action for Health & Wellbeing LL Founder, AUTH Lab of Medical Physics & Digital Innovation Director, LifeChamps H2020 Coordinato
Panagiotis Bamidis
Thessaloniki Action for Health & Wellbeing LL Founder, AUTH Lab of Medical Physics & Digital Innovation Director, LifeChamps H2020 CoordinatoPanagiotis Bamidis is a Professor of Medical Physics, Informatics and Medical Education and Director of the Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation in the School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. He is the co-ordinator of ten large European projects, and the principal investigator for many national and international funded projects. He is the President of the Hellenic Biomedical Technology Society, HL7 Hellas, the international Society of Applied Neuroscience, a member of the Administration Boards of other societies and patient associations, the Chairman/Organiser of some 20 international conferences and several national Biomedical Technology conferences. In 2013 he established the Thessaloniki Action for HeAlth & Wellbeing Living Lab (ThessAHALL) which in 2018 became a full member of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL).
Marta Martorell Camps
Director of the Digital Social Technologies Research Area, i2CAT Foundation
Marta Martorell Camps
Director of the Digital Social Technologies Research Area, i2CAT FoundationMarta Martorell Camps is a leading figure in participatory process innovation at local, regional and national levels. She is the director of the Digital Social Technologies Research Area of the i2CAT Foundation, which works on research lines such as the impact of digital technologies on society, the implementation of facilitation techniques and methodologies for the adoption of new technologies in line with healthy lifestyles and cultural values, or the design and implementation of innovation policies and strategies for social and digital transformation.
Fà tima Canseco-López
Senior Social Innovation Researcher – Digital Society Technologies Area, i2Cat
Fà tima Canseco-López
Senior Social Innovation Researcher – Digital Society Technologies Area, i2CatFà tima Canseco-López holds a PhD in Diffusion of Social Innovation from La Salle-Universitat Ramon Llull (URL) (Barcelona) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Bircham International University (Madrid). She is currently working as a Senior Social Innovation Researcher at i2CAT Foundation (Barcelona). Moreover, her professional experience consists of teaching and research at URL and the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, as well as Head of the Traffic Control Center of Catalonia at the Department of Home Affairs of the Catalonian Government (Spain). In addition, she holds a degree in Engineering Management (MEng), an MBA, and a degree in Technical Engineering in Industrial Electronics (BEng) from the UPC.
Eva Kehayia
Associate Professor - School of Physical & Occupational Therapy, McGill University
Eva Kehayia
Associate Professor - School of Physical & Occupational Therapy, McGill UniversityProf. Eva Kehayia is Associate Professor and Research Director at the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, Research co-director at the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital in Laval, affiliated with McGill University and researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of greater Montreal (CRIR). She is co-leading a pan-Canadian Partnership Initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council entitled: ‘Words in the World’. She has also been co-leading the Strategic Innovation Initiative entitled: The RehabMaLL - A Rehabilitation Living lab: creating enabling environments for social participation and inclusion for individuals with physical, sensory and cognitive disabilities. Since 2021, she is leading the Canadian arm (McGill University-University of Montreal-CRIR Living Labs, EnoLL members) of the Horizon 2020 VITALISE project bringing together Health and Well-Being Living Labs across Europe and in Canada. Her projects cover the domains of health, arts and culture and aim at exploring language and communication limitations in those living with acquired and degenerative neurological conditions. Working within the hospital and within the community her projects aim at increasing accessibility, community participation and inclusion of all, especially those living with physical disabilities.
Vicky Van der Auwera
Research manager and co-founder of LiCaLab, Thomas More University of Applied Sciences
Vicky Van der Auwera
Research manager and co-founder of LiCaLab, Thomas More University of Applied SciencesVicky holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Sciences from Brussels University Belgium, where she graduated as civil mechanical-electrical engineer. She worked for 14 years in private sector in the area of mechanical engineering as Research Manager and Project manager, where she built up experience and knowledge of machine construction, mechatronics, opto-mechanical measurements, semiconductor measurements. Since 2010 she works for Thomas More University of Applied Sciences in the unit Research. She is one of the team members that started up LiCalab in 2012 (www.licalab.be/en ), in close collaboration with the City of Turnhout. At LiCalab she is responsible for the operational management of the team and she leads EU-projects as well as private assignments.
Lacramioara Stoicu-Tivadar
Professor, University Politehnica Timisoara
Lacramioara Stoicu-Tivadar
Professor, University Politehnica TimisoaraLacramioara Stoicu-Tivadar is Professor at the University Politehnica Timisoara, Faculty of Automation and Computers, PhD Coordinator in Computers and Information Technology with research in digital healthcare, and human computer interaction. She was coordinator in many national and international projects, EU COST Actions, H2020, Erasmus. She is past President of the European Federation for Medical Informatics and Romanian Society of Medical Informatics, is senior IEEE member, and Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.