Living Lab Harmonization Framework

The Living Lab Harmonization Framework was launched as part of the VITALISE project (2021-2024) under the Horizon 2020 program to address the need for coherence in Living Lab operations across countries, sectors, and domains. Its primary aim is to align processes, services, tools, and methods while respecting the unique attributes of each Living Lab, fostering innovation and collaboration across the quadruple helix of users, industry, academia, and government. The approach involves identifying commonalities across Living Labs to develop harmonized practices, ensuring flexibility and adaptability.

The Framework is reflected in the Living Lab Harmonization Wiki, a publicly accessible tool that presents harmonized processes, services, tools, and methods, fostering collaboration and transparency. The wiki provides guidelines, methodologies, and tools to support Living Lab operators and researchers in establishing harmonized management systems. It aims to expand the Living Lab movement, stimulate transnational research collaboration, enable data sharing and comparison, improve research quality, and define a common terminology. 

Serving as an open space for public review, the wiki allows visitors to explore, comment, and annotate its content, promoting discussions on the harmonization process. By inviting public participation and providing an open platform, the wiki ensures the framework remains inclusive, adaptive, and reflective of the Living Lab community’s evolving needs.

Read more: Konstantinidis, E., Petsani, D., Santonen, T., Vervoort, K., Campodonico, G., Petronikolou, S., Desole, M., & Bamidis, P. (2024). D4.6 Living Lab Guidelines (final version). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10975205