Learning Lab Basic Track on Living Lab Fundamentals and First Steps

The Basic Track is designed for newcomers, local learners and participants who are beginning to explore how to set up or apply a Living Lab approach in their own ecosystem. Participants will learn the fundamentals of Living Labs, explore what meaningful participation looks like, and start translating Living Lab values into practical design choices.

Time

09:00 – 17:00

Room

Industrious

Agenda

Time Session
09:00–09:30 Welcome
Marta De Los Ríos White & Isabelle Couture (ENoLL)
09:30–11:00 Understanding Living Lab Basics and Core Principles – Part I
Isabelle Couture & Romane Caparros (ENoLL)

This session introduces the essential foundations of the Living Lab approach. Participants will explore what a Living Lab is, what it is not, and how real-life experimentation, co-creation, active user involvement and multi-stakeholder collaboration come together in practice. The session will help participants understand the core principles that distinguish Living Labs from other innovation formats, such as projects, testbeds, consultations or isolated co-creation activities.
11:00–11:15 Brew & Build (connections)
11:15–12:45 Designing the Foundations of a Living Lab
Isabelle Couture & Romane Caparros (ENoLL)

This practical session supports participants in translating the Living Lab concept into their own context. Participants will begin shaping the purpose, real-life setting, stakeholder ecosystem, governance considerations and first activities of a potential Living Lab. Through guided reflection and applied exercises, they will start identifying the key elements needed to move from an initial idea towards a more structured and purposeful Living Lab approach.
12:45–13:30 Lunch & Talk
13:30–15:00 Building Equitable Citizen Participation Through Creativity and Everyday Innovation
Clara Collett (KWMC – Bristol Living Lab)

This interactive session explores how Living Labs can build deeper, fairer and more meaningful forms of citizen participation by recognising the innovation already taking place in neighbourhoods, workplaces and communities. Drawing on the experience of Knowle West Media Centre, participants will explore how creativity, care, digital arts, making, storymaking, cultural placemaking and digital inclusion can help communities move from being consulted to actively shaping and owning change.
15:00–15:15 Brew & Build (connections)
15:15–16:45 Connecting Living Lab Values to Visible Change
Marta Martorell i Camps (i2cat – Colaboratoris Catalunya)

This session explores how Living Lab values can be included in the way impact is assessed and understood. Participants will reflect on how values such as openness, inclusion, trust, collaboration and co-creation can be translated into practical questions, evidence and learning points. The session will help participants think beyond outputs and consider whether their Living Lab practices are also reflecting the values they aim to promote. Participants will also be introduced to practical approaches, including Key Value Indicators (KVIs), to make Living Lab values visible and measurable throughout innovation processes.
16:45–17:00 Closing
Isabelle Couture & Romane Caparros (ENoLL)

Trainers

Marta De Los Rios White

Head of Capacity Building & Research, ENoLL

Isabelle Couture

Deputy Head of Capacity Building, ENoLL

Romane Caparros

Capacity Building Assistant and Trainer

Clara Collet

Head of Fundraising and Impact, KWMC

Marta Martorell Camps

Director of Digital Society Technologies, i2CAT