Living Lab and DigiPASS: methodologies to support social and digital innovation

To create a great innovation and knowledge community in the Region through the approach and ecosystem of Living Lab and DigiPASS: this is the challenge being taken up by the Umbria Region and Sviluppumbria.

Living Labs are intended to foster the creation of an open innovation environment in real-life situations in which the active involvement of end users together with businesses, universities and public administration, opens the way to co-creation of new services, products and social infrastructure. The DigiPASS are public spaces open to all, created with the aim of accompanying citizens and businesses in the use of digital services and to encourage business innovation.

The challenge is to create a place for meeting and comparison, co-planning, aggregation between public bodies and ICT companies, universities, research centres, and all possible stakeholders with the user community at the centre, to seek innovative solutions to their needs.

The Umbria Region has identified thematic areas and Sviluppumbria has activated a plan of activities for promotion, participation and collection of needs and suggestions from citizens and regional stakeholders. At the end of this first phase will be activated two Living Labs in Perugia and Terni to promote, develop and test new innovative solutions in a real context, where citizens, businesses and the public administration will work together to research and experiment policies, products, technologies and innovative services, to test their effectiveness and usefulness for end users and assess the effects on quality of life.

Learn more about Living Labs here:  https://enoll.org/about-us/

View the dedicated pages:

Living Lab Perugia

Living Lab Terni