Transnational Living Lab for Active Ageing
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| Coordinator | Linnéuniversitetet - Linnéuniversitetet, Växjö |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 1 238 945 |
| Project duration | December 2016 - April 2019 |
| Status | Completed |
Important results from the project
Transnational Living Lab for Active Ageing has aimed to support active ageing by strengthening bonds between generations. The project has fulfilled the goals of developing open innovation platforms, living labs, with a focus on active ageing in Sweden and Japan, and establishing a transnational open innovation platform. Through living labs, the project has successfully identified three focus areas for innovation - housing, work / occupation, mobility - of relevance to citizens, industry and governance.
Expected long term effects
The result is functional open innovation platforms, including frameworks, methods and processes. These have generated 22 innovation projects within the focus areas. They are expected to reduce loneliness, strengthen intergenerational community and contribute to the development of SMEs. The project has resulted in extensive exchanges between researchers, industry, governance, nationally and transnationally, an extended network with other living labs, as well as exchange at student level through transnational PhD seminar and term long master module within TLLAA.
Approach and implementation
The project is based on the development of living labs, Kamakura Living Lab and Småland Living Lab, as the basis for a transnational living lab. The research has been conducted through co-creation processes with citizens, industry, governance in living labs. The project also brings together several areas of knowledge: design, architecture, gerontology, social work, circular economy. The work uses metadesign frameworks developed for integrating innovations at levels of products, systems, paradigms.