Living Labs and Multi-Actor Platforms in rural areas

Living Labs / Multi-Actor Platforms are increasingly considered by innovation policies as drivers of transformative change. Indeed, the interaction between stakeholders is supposed to generate innovation adapted to the needs of users and their context and to promote inclusion.

A reflection is needed, both on the effectiveness of Living Labs as drivers of transformative change and on the validity of the knowledge created through them, as well as on the methodologies to make them more effective and efficient.

This workshop, jointly organised by the DESIRA, MOVING and SHERPA projects, was an opportunity to share experiences in this field and to reflect on how to consolidate methods and concepts around this approach.