Capacity building

Description: Training, knowledge sharing and awareness raising, site visits and event arrangement. Offering training for end-users and/or practitioners to improve their skills and knowledge about living lab approach, co-creation, iterative development and healthcare and wellbeing market. Stimulating knowledge sharing and awareness raising by publishing professional and scientific publications and arranging events, site visits and seminars.

R&D service categories: Networking and capacity building

Key characteristics in living lab context:

• The way of knowledge sharing and transfer depends on the project and on the purpose
• Use of short-term or long-term methods and courses
• Material can be both created for a purpose but also some available online

Participants’ role:

• Service beneficiaries become trainees
• Living Labs can offer support for the design and facilitation of capacity building programs

Methods: Co-creation methodology, focus groups, training sessions (tech & non-tech), ethical training & legal in large scale settings, seminars, presentations, workshops, webinars, forums, websites and web-engines, events, site visits, publications, summer schools, degree program, methodological training, how to use new product

Approved by the VITALISE H2020 living labs' consensus report on 30/09/2021