VITALISE (VIrtual healTh And weLlbeing Living Lab InftraStructurE)
VITALISE connects living labs across Europe to improve research access.
Duration
April 2021 - March 2024Partners
Project Manager
Researchers need convenient access to Health and Wellbeing Living Lab infrastructures and procedures, as well as policies that foster innovative, person-centred research. The Health and Wellbeing research community has invested a great deal of effort in creating Living Labs to conduct research and innovation projects, with a lifecycle limited to the project鈥檚 duration, due to non-optimal use of time and resources and lack of a harmonization framework for their provided services, which restrain the exploitation potential of research results from local communities.
To address these challenges,鈥疺ITALISE鈥痠nterlinks three major living lab networks in Europe:
- ENoLL, with 130 living lab members around the world, 41% of which are in the health and wellbeing domain;
- EIT Health Living Labs, composed of 56 active Living Labs and an additional 37 that are in the process of joining, all of them in the health and wellbeing domain;
- Forum LLSA鈥痗omprised of 38 members, all of which in the health and wellbeing domain.
By bringing together these three (3) networks, VITALISE interconnects the majority of Living Labs across Europe, to cover all European geographical areas and all the spectrum of the Health and Wellbeing domain.鈥疶he aim is to open up living lab infrastructures as a means to facilitate and promote research activities in the health and wellbeing domain in Europe and beyond by enabling in-person Transnational Access to鈥痵eventeen (17) living lab research infrastructures鈥痑nd supporting remote digital access to datasets (Virtual Access) of rehabilitation, transitional care and everyday life activities through harmonized processes and common tools. The project will also develop training methods towards the wider understanding and valorisation of Living Lab methodologies in the research community.
Collaborative Partners
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Eindhoven University of Technology
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
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LiCalab - Living & Care Lab
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European Network of Living Labs
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Laurea University of Applied Sciences
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Intras Foundation
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TREBAG
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GAIA
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Vicomtech Research Centre
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Austrian Institute of Technology
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Social IT
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Polytechnic University of Madrid
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Wita
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Anthology Ventures
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Vilabs
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Forum des Living Labs en Sant茅 et Autonomie
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McGill University
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Universit茅 de Montre谩l
