Co-innovation labs in Model regions
Innovation labs are safe spaces that offer a collaborative environment where different agents are joined together for the purpose of innovating and generating new solutions.
Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy
- Romagna Apennines (Bidente and Lamone river Basins)
- Sustainable forest management and payment for Ecosystem services (in the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano Man and Biosphere UNESCO Reserve)
- Regional forest nurseries in the Romagna Apennines
Skåne region in Sweden
- Malmö: urban challenges including available surfaces, competing features, and current legislation.
- Helsingborg: rural/peri-urban challenges including catchment area approach and land-owner dialogs.
- Lund: rural/peri-urban challenges including catchment area approach and land-owner dialogs.
Funen region in Denmark
- Co-innovation Lab 1: the site-specific initiative in Vollsmose
- Co-innovation Lab 2: the catchment-based initiative at Vejrup Stream
- Co-innovation Lab 3: the Regional initiative on Blue-Green Infrastructure network
The format of the Co-innovation Labs gives participants the freedom to challenge dominant or business-as-usual approaches and to innovate new pathways for societal transformation. Key to their success is how the labs are facilitated and how different voices can be heard. In line with commonly agreed practices, the working method will apply principles of good governance, reflect the diversity of the partners, and ensure an open and high-quality reflexive process.
Innovation labs will stimulate social learning, defined as a change in understanding that goes beyond the individual to become situated within wider social units or communities of practice through social interactions between actors within social networks.
The ARCADIA Co-innovation Labs bring together many different types of actors and knowledge, fostering experimentation and experiential social learning.