Become a ENoLL Living

ENoLL is an open community - anyone can join!

1. Become a ENoLL Living Lab

If your organisation wants to become a member of the European Network of Living Labs and become a certified Living Lab, contact us in order to discuss how to join through the ‘Wave’ Calls for Membership.

2. Become an Associated Member

Are you an university, company, research institution, regional or local authority or other government organisation and you support the philosophy of userdriven open innovation, contact us on how to become an associated member of ENoLL.

4. Join the ENoLL friends open community

ENoLL is on facebook and on twitter @openlivinglabs and publishes a monthly newsletter on all things relevant to living labs and user-driven open innovation.

Contact Us ENoLL Office Pleinlaan 9 1050 Brussels Belgium info@enoll.org www.openlivinglabs.eu Pieter Ballon (iMinds, ENoLL Council member) interviewed at the Creative Media Days 2012 in Ghent, Belgium

What is a Living Lab?

A Living Lab is a real-life test and experimentation environment where users and producers co-create innovations. Living Labs have been characterized by the European Commission as Public-Private-People Partnerships (PPPP) for user-driven open innovation.

Introducing the European Network of Living Labs

The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international, independent non-profit association of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and beyond, founded in November 2006 by 19 Living Labs, today grown to an extensive network of over 300 ‘accredited’ Living Lab members.

ENoLL opens up for new members through yearly ‘Waves’ i.e Calls for Membership of which latest one closed with 46 new accepted Living Lab members. Each Living Lab brings a set of different groups of local and regional stakeholders into its partnership involving often a variety of different private sector actors, especially small- and medium sized business in its activities.

Living Labs are open innovation platforms which provide research, development, innovation and market validation in real-life environments. ENoLL Living Labs are willing to share knowledge and services among each other as well as with external partners, and this exchange of know-how and promotion of services is supported by the ENoLL association.

Furthermore, ENoLL aims to inspire, support and advocate for open, cocreative, human-centric and user-driven research, development and innovation policies at local, regional and EU-level. The network provides a platform for collective voicing of the views and issues that are important for the members.

The legal representative entity of the network is the ENoLL Office in Brussels, hosted by the ENoLL secretariat, iMinds at the campus of Vrije Universiteit Brussels. The ENoLL Office facilitates joint action, knowledge exchange and supports project partnerships among ENoLL members.