ENoLL - European Network of Living Labs

22/10/2026

🚀 A new door to European innovation has opened. And our Living Labs are part of it!

Accelup, ENoLL's matchmaking platform connecting startups, SMEs and companies with ENoLL-certified Living Labs across Europe, is among the first listed services of the European Commission's EU Innovation Platform! 🇪🇺
This is more than an exciting milestone for Accelup. It's another step towards making the expertise of our Living Lab community more visible, accessible and connected to the needs of European innovators.

💡 Why does it matter?
For startups, SMEs and companies, breakthrough ideas often come with a critical question: Where can we find the right expertise and environments to turn our innovations into solutions that work?
Through , innovators can connect with ENoLL-certified Living Labs ready to support their challenges through co-creation, experimentation and validation in real-life settings.

For our Living Lab community, this means new opportunities to showcase their expertise, connect with businesses across Europe and transform their knowledge into meaningful collaborations.

Being featured on the EU Innovation Platform brings these two worlds closer together, strengthening the bridge between innovation demand and the capabilities of our network.
Because innovation doesn't happen in isolation. It happens when the right people, expertise and opportunities come together.

🔗 Discover Accelup: https://accelup.pulse.ly/wu9btcbbsd
🔗 Explore the EU Innovation Platform: https://europa.pulse.ly/d9pkuqze6c

21/10/2026

Who is Operationalising Living Labs for?

Anyone whose work depends on a Living Lab running well. That includes Living Lab managers and practitioners, innovation consultants and researchers, project coordinators in local authorities, research institutions and European funded projects, and policymakers working on open innovation.

Each of these roles sees the daily running of a Living Lab differently. Working through the same questions together, live, is one of the strengths of this training.

It is open to everyone, with special discounts available to ENoLL Members, and is relevant for participants who already understand the Living Lab approach.

Designed and delivered by Dr. Toñi Caro and Francisco Albalá from Eoh-for-Good, the training covers operational workflows, governance models in practice and resource management, with practical tools and hands-on exercises.

📅 17 November, 24 November and 1 December, 16:00–18:30 CET

💻 Delivered live through the ENoLL Academy
https://academy.enoll.org/course/operationalisinglivinglabs-eohforgood

Know a colleague who should take part? Tag them below.

16/10/2026

16/10/2026

🌱 In 2022, a team from Jagiellonian University first met ENoLL at OpenLivingLab Days in Turin. Four years later, their whole campus in Kraków is a Living Lab, and they are part of our Community as ENoLL Members.

The Jagiellonian Campus Living Lab, CaLiLab, uses the campus itself as its testing ground, with one simple aim: to make it a better place to study, work and live.

Some of the work is wonderfully down to earth. Researchers divided part of the Third Campus into 72 plots to find out how often the grass should be mown (the answer: moderately), then built an educational game so others could learn from it. Other projects look at breastfeeding and returning to work, at soil for green roofs, and at concrete made from old batteries.

And sometimes nature has the final say. A planned inclusive leisure space has not been built, because a protected butterfly was living on the site. As Beata Jałocha, who leads the Living Lab, told us: “We had to choose. We chose the nature.” 🦋

Andrada Barață’s conversation with Beata is full of honest moments like this one. Read it here: https://enoll.pulse.ly/g3wxobewpw
Has a project in your Living Lab ever taken a turn you did not expect? We would love to hear about it in the comments.

15/10/2026

SMARCO Pilots are back – Round 2 is now open! 🚀

Following our first piloting round earlier this year, we’re opening the doors to a new group of participants.

If you’re a professional, public sector representative, student or early-career professional interested in the skills behind smarter, greener and more resilient communities, this is your opportunity to take part in the SMARCO training programme.

Choose between two professional profiles:
🔹 Smart Community Resilience Engineer
🔹 Smart Community Resilient-solutions Procurer/Planner

From AI, IoT, cybersecurity and urban data to community engagement, e-services, sustainable transition and project management, the training brings together the skills needed to help turn smart community ambitions into practice.

📅 Registration is open until 20 October 2026.

👉 Join Round 2: https://smarco.eu/learning-programmes-form/

13/10/2026

Setting up a Living Lab and running one require two different skill sets.

The first is about design. The second starts once the Living Lab begins operating, and it often receives far less attention: organising day-to-day activities, facilitating co-creation with real participants and competing needs, and building operations that continue beyond the first project or funding cycle.

This is where much of the real work of a Living Lab happens, and it is the focus of our new Powered by ENoLL training.

Operationalising Living Labs: From conceptual design to daily management is designed and delivered by Dr. Toñi Caro and Francisco Albalá from Eoh-for-Good. Across three live online modules, participants will work on operational workflows, governance models in practice and resource management, with practical tools, hands-on exercises and direct application to their own Living Lab context.

📅 17 November, 24 November and 1 December, 16:00–18:30 CET

💻 Delivered live through the ENoLL Academy

The training is open to Members and non-Members with a good knowledge of Living Labs.

https://academy.enoll.org/course/operationalisinglivinglabs-eohforgood

What has been the biggest challenge in moving your Living Lab from design to daily operation?

09/10/2026

🚀Ready to build your climate knowledge!

The FARCLIMATE Training Platform brings together a complete collection of online courses designed to help people and organizations better understand climate change and respond to it.

Whether you are a student, researcher, municipality, public authority, NGO, educator or environmental professional, you will find practical training delivered by experts on topics such as:
• Agriculture
• Forestry
• Fisheries
• Biodiversity
• Nature-Based Solutions
• Life Cycle Assessment
• Climate policy and adaptation strategies

Build new skills, discover innovative approaches and help create more resilient
communities across Europe.🌱

Start exploring the platform now: https://training.farclimate-project.eu/