BEGINNERS TRACK
Room
A210/213
Agenda
9.00 – 9.30: Welcome & introduction
9.30 – 10.40: Lesson 1: How to Set up a Living Lab: Principles and Challenges
This session explores the core essentials of Living Labs, anticipate potential challenges, and grasp diverse roles and responsibilities. Participants will learn to establish sustainable multi-stakeholder partnerships and devise strategies for fostering open innovation within Living Lab environments. The training will cover LL essentials such as building blocks, pitfalls, challenges, roles, and the integrative process, as well as the innovation ecosystem, focusing on building and sustaining long-term multi-stakeholder commitments and the unique aspects of Living Labs. Additionally, it will delve into open innovation, exploring the stakeholders and innovation ecosystem, and distinguishing Living Labs from other innovation arenas.
Trainers: Marta De Los Rios White, Aurora Agostinis
10.40 – 10.50: Coffee break
10.50 – 11.30: Hand-on session: How to set up a Living Lab: Principles and Challenges
11.30 – 12.30: Lesson 2: Business Models and Sustainability of Living Labs
This session focuses on the critical aspects of business model development and financial sustainability for Living Labs, and participants will learn how to construct a long-term sustainable business plan. The session will cover some theory on business models for Living Labs, providing examples, templates and tools. An interactive hands-on session using a fictional use case from a variety of differently hosted Living Labs will help participants explore concretely how to develop and continuously improve an impactful business model and funding streams.
Trainer: Fiona Zimmerman
12.30 – 13.10: Lunch
13.10 – 13.50: Hands-on session: Business Models and Sustainability of Living Labs
13.50 – 14.50: Lesson 3: Impact & Value creation in Living Labs
This session introduces participants into the different ways in which Living Labs can generate value, based on their intrinsic characteristics, such as co-creation, real-life experimentation, multi-method, multi- stakeholder, orchestration. Practical examples and basic impact assessment methodology will enable participants to measure impact and added value within their Living Lab projects and activities.
Trainer: Dimitri Schuurman
14.50 – 15.05: Coffee break
15.05 – 15.45: Hands-on session: Impact & Value creation in Living Labs
15.45 – 16.00: Closing
TRAINER BIOS
Marta I. De Los Rios White
Interim Head of Capacity Building and Research, ENoLL
Marta I. De Los Rios White
Interim Head of Capacity Building and Research, ENoLLMarta I. De Los Rios White is the Interim Head of Capacity Building and Research at ENoLL. She is a Process Engineer with a Master in Sustainable Cities with international project management experience (South and North America, Africa, Europe). She is a professional with more than 10 years of experience in sustainable and participative process improvement and transformation, co-creation of solutions and Capacity Building. With proven abilities in strategic and systemic thinking, leadership, and teamwork, her work has focused mostly on project management and capacity building. Marta has great experience in sustainable and participative process improvement and co-creation of solutions with a systemic and strategic thinking approach. She is an experienced project manager with experience supporting the implementation of international cooperation projects for different donors and especially for the European Commission.
Aurora Agostinis
Junior Project Manager, ENoLL
Aurora Agostinis
Junior Project Manager, ENoLLAurora is a Junior Project Manager in ENoLL. She has a bachelor’s degree in Oriental Languages and is currently graduating her masmaster's degree in international relations the Digital Era. Aurora joined ENoLL in 2022, and since then she has been actively involved in the Projects Unit and Proposal Writing team. Her main role is to support the management and implementation of ENoLL projects and the preparation of proposals for competitive bids. Currently, she is involved in different projects, particularly in the coordination team of the SOILL-Startup project, and she is also supporting the Capacity Building team in delivering training and learning sessions.
Fiona Zimmermann
Senior Research Associate (HES-SO)
Fiona Zimmermann
Senior Research Associate (HES-SO)Fiona Zimmermann is a Senior Research Associate working as a panel manager at the Energy Living Lab in the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) since 2019. Prior to working in research, Fiona worked as an energy management professional for 10 years internationally with energy services companies, governments and utilities on developing energy projects. Her business development expertise is highlighted through working as an entrepreneur and co-developing the Energy Living Lab at HES-SO. With a diploma in Business & Energy Management and a Masters in Environmental Management for Business, Fiona is now developing her academic career through a PhD in sustainable transitions. Fiona is originally Irish but relocated to Switzerland in 2016 where she lives with her two daughters. She is passionate about biodiversity and enjoys open water swimming in her free time.
Dimitri Schuurman
Program Manager, imec
Dimitri Schuurman
Program Manager, imecDimitri holds the position of university business development manager at research group imec-MICT-Ghent University where he is responsible for research on inclusive design, impact via Living Labs and design for futures, all in the context of new and emerging technologies. He is also a visiting professor strategic design and innovation management at Ghent University in the industrial design studies and partly works for the European Network of Living Labs as senior research strategist. Since 2015 Dimitri holds a PhD on innovation management in Living Labs from Ghent University (UGent) and the Free University of Brussels (VUB in which he developed a three-layered model that is now widely used in Living Lab research as well as practice. He published more than 200 academic papers, acted as guest editor for multiple" journals and for over ten years leads a special interest group on Living Labs in the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM). Finally, since recently, Dimitri is also active as an independent consultant in the domains of open innovation, user innovation and strategic innovation management.