The Digital Living Lab
integrates education, R&D and regional development in the field of digital service business. The working approach is student-driven, similar to a work-life project environment.
Student-Driven
Learning by Developing
Co-Creation &
Experimentation
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What is Laurea Digital Living Lab?Laurea Digital Living Lab is a real-world environment or platform where research, innovation, and experimentation occur in collaboration with users or stakeholders. It's a place to test and co-create solutions.
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How does Laurea Digital Living Lab differ from traditional research and development?Laurea Digital Living Lab involves real users, stakeholders, and real-world conditions, fostering co-creation and user-centric innovation, whereas traditional R&D often takes place in controlled environments.
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What are the main goals of Laurea Digital Living Lab?The primary goals of Laurea Digital Living Lab include fostering innovation, testing and validating solutions, engaging users, and promoting collaboration among academia, industry, and the community.
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Who can participate in Laurea Digital Living Lab?Current and recent Laurea students, as well as partner organizations.
What Others Are Saying About the Digital Living Lab Projects?
“The user research was conducted for the concept and the proto was developed on time. The team participated in the Jam and were willing to deliver extra.”
Julia, CIRC4life-program
“Project went well and we are happy with the deliverables. Communication with student team was easy and interactive, they asked for feedback and acted based on it. Technical stuff was explained to us in an understandable way.”
Anni, New Business owner
What is it like to study in the Digital Living Lab?
Studying in the Digital Living Lab requires a can-do attitude, entrepreneurial mindset, and strong self-management. Students are expected to take initiative, seek information, and ask for coaching when needed. Collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds is key.
Discover What Laurea Digital Living Lab Is
Watch this short video to get an overview of Laurea Digital Living Lab experience.
Read the video transcript
Read more about how the Laurea Digital Living Lab works on the Way of Working webpage, and about the projects that can be implemented on the Course Overview webpage.