Solarise: OUTPUT 5.3 Living Lab Pilot (UoP)

Living labs are defined as user-centered, open innovation ecosystems based on a systematic user co-creation approach integrating research and innovation processes in real-life settings. The key stakeholders of a university-based living lab are academic staff, researchers, students, and external partners.

A living lab provides the opportunity for staff and students to build solutions that directly address immediate real-world problems and to analyse the behaviour of real systems as they operate. …

Living labs are defined as user-centered, open innovation ecosystems based on a systematic user co-creation approach integrating research and innovation processes in real-life settings. The key stakeholders of a university-based living lab are academic staff, researchers, students, and external partners.

A living lab provides the opportunity for staff and students to build solutions that directly address immediate real-world problems and to analyse the behaviour of real systems as they operate. Moreover, university-based living labs provide access to live testbeds for innovative scientific research and training. They can serve as flexible tools that allow users to focus on issues and themes of importance at a real scale. External stakeholders benefit from living labs by gaining access to expertise and facilities that support them in addressing important issues that affect them.
As part of the SOLARISE project funded by Interreg 2 Seas and the European Regional Development Fund, a living laboratory has been created consisting of installations at two buildings at the University of Portsmouth.

This report describes the facilities and purpose of the Solar Living Laboratory at the University of Portsmouth, it provides an overview of the monitoring set up at each site, and it offers examples of the kind of data that is being collected through the living lab facilities