Programme to co-create solutions for campus challenges is back
The UAB launches the second edition of its Campus Living Lab: co-creating solutions on a smart campus, an initiative open to the entire UAB community to promote projects that respond to previously identified campus challenges, implement solutions and extend them to the rest of the UAB surroundings. Registration open until end of February for this interested in participating in the programme.
The UAB campus is an ideal environment for developing and experimenting with new solutions, products or services in collaboration with users and other groups. It is a true living lab that allows the active participation of different actors to contribute their knowledge, experience and points of view in the development of solutions adapted to their specific needs and contexts.
To reinforce these capabilities and activate the use of the campus as an environment for the co-creation of solutions, the UAB has launched the second edition of the Campus Living Lab: co-creating solutions on a smart campus programme.
This programme is aimed at the entire university community and seeks teams of five people who wish to work with co-creation and open innovation methodologies to develop projects to improve the campus. The challenges in which the projects will be framed are:
- Food: how can we improve the food model on campus to make it a more sustainable service?
- Water: how can we make more sustainable use of water resources to make the campus more resilient to climate change?
- Resources: how can we rethink and transform the resource management system on campus to encourage the campus community to exchange, reuse and lend resources to each other?
- Mobility: how can we reimagine decarbonised mobility generated by the campus community, on and off campus, eliminating dependence on fossil fuels and creating a more resilient campus in the face of climate change?
- Noise pollution: how can we increase the number of quiet outdoor areas on campus to improve the well-being and health of the university community?
Those interested in participating can sign up through this link, and from February to June they will work to develop solutions to these challenges and acquire entrepreneurial skills and innovation methodologies. Each team will have a teamcher who will help them throughout the process. The co-ideated solutions will be transformed into prototypes using the University's Open Innovation Labs network and can be evaluated on campus, so that the UAB can become a true living laboratory.