Project information

  • Category: EU Project
  • Duration: 36 Months
  • Project date: 01 January 2016 – 31 December 2019

About InnoLabs

To raise bottom-up innovation capacity for the benefit of sustainable and socially responsible growth in Estonia, Latvia and Cyprus, based on the experiences from Denmark and Netherlands.

Project Objectives

  • To learn about student based innovation labs in the Netherlands and Denmark.
  • To transfer, mutually learn and disseminate knowledge about student based innovation labs.
  • To establish cross sectoral, co-creation innovation labs (Innolabs) linking universities, intermediaries (innovation and sustainability agents), local industries and stakeholders.
  • To link education with practical innovation projects by engaging university students and teachers to work on practical, multidisciplinary sustainability and social issues on the selected practical projects (linking with their cities/regions), creating together new innovative projects or ventures which benefit the issues of sustainability or society, as a part of their education.
  • To develop and carry out 4-5 student projects for Innovation labs in each partner community.
  • To disseminate project results.

Partners

  • Cyprus University of Technology
  • Foundation for Society/FS (LV)
  • Stichting NHL / NHL (NL)
  • Aalborg University / AAU (DK)
  • Vidzemes University of Applied Sciences/VA (LV)
  • Estonian Institute for Sustainable Development / SEI (EE)
  • Eesti Kunstiakadeemia / EKA (EE)
  • Interfusion Services Ltd / IFS (CY)