VITALISE

Researchers in the Health and Wellbeing domain need 1) convenient access to research infrastructures, 2) direct engagement of people in order to validate hypotheses, co-design solutions and services, evaluate their feasibility and effectiveness and participate in the translation and mobilization of outcomes and 3) experience from multidisciplinary domains (e.g. healthcare management, assistive technologies, data science) to deal with the complexity of health and wellbeing research.

Over the last few years, Living Labs have emerged as resilient research and innovation infrastructures and have proved to be key to the integration of research and innovation processes in real life settings, focusing primarily on people and their engagement in research procedures. VITALISE opens up Living Lab Infrastructures as a means to facilitate and promote research activities in the Health and Wellbeing domain in Europe and beyond by
enabling in-person Transnational Access to 17 Living Lab research infrastructures and by supporting remote digital access to datasets (Virtual Access) of rehabilitation, transitional care and everyday life activities through harmonized processes and common tools. VITALISE will design and develop ICT tools for shared access of similar devices and applications used across Living Labs, as well as for collecting, storing and sharing datasets. Lastly, VITALISE will invest in the development of Training methods towards the wider understanding and valorisation of Living Lab methodologies in the research community.

Consortium

EUROPEAN NETWORK OF LIVING LABS IVZW, Belgium
ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS, Greece
LAUREA-AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY, Finland
THOMAS MORE KEMPEN VZW, Belgium
FUNDACION INTRAS, Spain
TREBAG SZELLEMI TULAJDON- ES PROJEKTMENEDZSER KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU
TARSASAG, Hungary
ASOCIACION DE INDUSTRIAS DE CONOCIMIENTO Y TECNOLOGIA – GAIA – EUSKALHERRIKO
EZAGUTZA ETA TEKNOLOGIA INDUSTRIEN ELKARTEA, Spain
FUNDACION CENTRO DE TECNOLOGIAS DE INTERACCION VISUAL Y COMUNICACIONES
VICOMTECH, Spain
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, Greece
AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH, Austria
SOCIALIT SOFTWARE E CONSULTING SRL, Italy
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID, Span
WITA S.R.L., Italy
Anthology Ventures Jsc, Bulgaria
VILABS OE, Greece
Forum des Living Labs en Santé et en Autonomie, France
Coöperatie Slimmer Leven 2020 U.A., Netherlands
ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNIVERSITY, Canada
UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL, Canada