Now available: e-learning on the Urban Living Lab Way of Working

Complex urban challenges rarely have a single owner or a ready-made solution. In a Living Lab, you test out new technologies, collaborations, and processes on a small scale. In this way, you discover what works, avoid unnecessary investments, and speed up innovation. You can now learn how this works at your own pace with the new e-learning: four modules, about two hours, whenever it suits you. This online training is available in English and Dutch.

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Urban Living Lab Way of Working

The e-learning is developed by AMS Institute and TU Delft within the Toekomstbestendige Leefomgeving (Future-Proof Living Environment) program and is based on AMS Institute’s Urban Living Lab Way of Working Handbook.

The Urban Living Lab Way of Working is a valuable addition to existing project management skills, connecting projects, stakeholders, and partnerships through systems thinking. This makes better use of learning opportunities and creates a foundation for improved collaboration and further scaling.

What can you expect from this e-learning?

This online course on the Living Lab Way of Working consists of four modules:

1. The complexity of urban challenges (± 20 min): why do complex issues call for a different way of working?
2. The characteristics of a Living Lab (± 20 min): what makes Living Labs so valuable for learning and development?
3. The multilevel perspective (± 20 min): how do you map and organize an innovation ecosystem?
4. The Urban Living Lab Way of Working (± 45 to 60 min): 8 activities in 4 phases that you can use to set up your own project.

The e-learning combines reading material, interactive images, and short tutorial videos. You are guided through the theoretical context of the method using a fictional but realistic case. This way, you can better understand the way of working and translate it into your own practice.

Who is it for?

For everyone working on innovation: project managers, designers, policymakers, process facilitators and implementers, at municipalities, contractors, engineering firms and knowledge institutions. No prior knowledge is required.

Want to take this further?

Leerlab Infra offers free training and workshops, including in-company, to help you and your partners move innovations in the infrastructure sector forward.

View all training courses and workshops (in Dutch) or get in touch to schedule a training.