We are a network of Social Innovation Enterprises that supports transnational collaboration to address grand
societal challenges
The Fourth Sector of the economy combines market-based approaches of the private sector with the social and environmental aims of the public and non-profit sectors to address pressing problems and societal challenges.
The knowledge triangle refers to the interaction between research, education and innovation, which are key drivers of a knowledge-based society. In the European Union, it also refers to an attempt to better link together these key concepts, with research and innovation already highlighted by the development of the Lisbon Strategy
The knowledge triangle refers to the interaction between research, education and innovation, which are key drivers of a knowledge-based society. In the European Union, it also refers to an attempt to better link together these key concepts, with research and innovation already highlighted by the development of the Lisbon Strategy
Nexus
Connections
A multi-point approach to
involve multiple actors, disciplines, systems, scale, sectors, and locations to foster collaborative environments for
science research-policy-education-society cooperation in problem solving via the
distributed facility characterization of the living labs model.
Living Lab Nexus
LIVING
LABS are places of experimentation
in myriad learning environments.
They host activity that creates tangible,
real-life classrooms and laboratories that can
advance the understanding of complex issues
and foster collaboration in calls to action
to address societal challenges.
Living labs have been
liberated from their historical
confinement within academe to become
embedded in
a variety of working environments across the sectors.
Today,
living labs can be found in public school systems,
nonprofit
organizations, municipalities, businesses
and on-line. They are places
where ideation, implementation
and validation of problem-solving
activity is transformed
into collaborative action through a lens that
allows
a view of life in its complex interdependence and
ourselves as
distinctively self-aware,
choice-making living beings
with profound
responsibilities to and for
the entire planet.
Nexus Connections are hubs that support
a multi-point approach
to
involve multiple actors, disciplines, systems,
scale, sectors, and locations
to foster collaborative environments for
science research-
public policy-education-society cooperation-
citizen science
in problem solving via the
distributed facility
characterization of the living labs model.
OUR WORK