This year’s Open Living Lab Days – the annual global gathering of Living Labs organised by ENoLL -European Network of Living Labs – will be held in Turin, Italy, from 20 to 23 September at the OGR and is co-organised by the City of Turin, CTE NEXT and Torino City Lab.

The main theme of the event is ‘The city as a Lab, but now for real!”Re-working open innovation environments for inclusive, green and digital transition through emerging technologies’, to which five sub-tracks are linked: Society, Governance, Green & Sustainable, Transformation and Beyond the City.

It will be a specially designed meeting place for policy makers, companies, entrepreneurs, academics and innovators to explore, connect and work together.

Around 400 innovators from Europe and the rest of the world are expected to participate in this annual Living Lab event.

The programme is structured as follows: a training day on the fundamentals of the living lab, two days of international conferences, workshops and ted talks, and study visits to discover the city’s innovation locations.

The City of Turin, specifically, organised the following sessions:

Wednesday 21 September from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

Comparing the Urban Living Labs Models, from large cities to small urban centres: it will be illustrated how city labs are a unique tool to promote innovation in a holistic and inclusive way, involving societal stakeholders in creating long-term impacts for the city to foster the green and digital transition.

Wednesday 21 September from 2.00 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.

Scaling up, scaling out and scaling deep for social innovation, this session will start with an analysis of the role of public authorities and the third sector in social innovation, exploring the replicability of social innovation systems (scaling out) and delving into the roots of social innovation (scaling deep).

Thursday 22 September from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

The House of Emergency Technology in Italy and Beyond, a session in which the project and the first results of CTE NEXT one year after its inception will be illustrated, and the benefits of using 5G and emerging technologies for citizens will be analysed.

Thursday 22 September from 3.45 p.m. to 5.15 p.m.

Living Labs as enablers of the transformation of European cities towards climate neutrality, realised in collaboration with the Energy Center of Turin, the panel aims to analyse how living labs can help to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. The reflection will take place in the context defined by the EU Mission “Climate Neutral and Smart Cities” and the related goal of having the first 100 climate neutral cities by 2030, including Turin.

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