The Conference will involve participants from seven European cities involved in the Alliance EC2U – European Campus of Cities-Universities: Poitiers (France), Pavia (Italy), Iasi (Romania), Salamanca (Spain), Coimbra (Portugal), Jena (Germany), and Turku (Finland).
The Alliance EC2U formed a partnership for the implementation of the project RI4C2 – “Research & Innovation For Cities & Citizens” funded by European Commission’s Horizon 2020 „Science with & for Society” call, Grant Agreement 101035803/04.06.2021.
The aim of the conference is to formulate a framework for creating and development of the three Pilot living labs within existing EC2U Virtual Institutes.
Living Labs are “user-centred, open innovation ecosystems based on systematic user co-creation approach, integrating research and innovation processes in real life communities and settings” (the most common definition by the European Network of Living Labs-ENoLL).
Citizens are key actors among the local knowledge ecosystems and the EC2U Alliance guiding principle is to promote their active engagement in all stages of Research and innovation process.
More information: https://www.uaic.ro/ri4c2-uaic/