INNOVATION
A citizen laboratory that democratises innovation and promotes the knowledge society in Cornellà de Llobregat
Citilab is a laboratory for social and digital innovation. It is a centre that combines training and research activities and that also works as an incubator for business and social initiatives. Citilab is a civic innovation centre, which uses the Internet as a way of innovating in a more collaborative manner, integrating citizens in the core process.
Tags: Collaborative Economy, Living Laboratories, Social Cohesion
Challenges addressed
- Collaboration and participation between people of all ages
- Share and spread knowledge regarding knowledge society
- Combine social cohesion, digital culture and technological innovation
Main objectives
- Promote the knowledge society, spreading new technologies and new relations between society, art, science and ICT
- Bring people closer to latest innovative technologies of the Internet
- Maintain the social cohesion within the digital culture, facilitating the democratic access to information and promoting the use of new technologies
- Promote and develop any kind of training activities
Facts
Project type Centre for sharing knowledge and information
Promoter Cornellà City Council
Start date 2007
Funding Public and self-funding
Project description
Citilab is a citizen laboratory for social and digital innovation, where people explore and spread the digital impact on the creative thinking, and the design and innovation that emerge from the digital culture. It is a mixture between a training and researching centre and an incubator for social and business initiatives.
Citilab was originally founded in 1997, and its current building was opened in 2007. It is inspired by the Living Lab model, a public/private entity where citizens, companies, public bodies and research centres are involved in the process of innovation. Citilab has focused its activity as a citizen innovation digital centre for spreading and promoting open knowledge. Its working models are the ones of the living labs: design thinking, computational thinking and user-centric co-creation.
The lab organises and promotes projects regarding innovation, participatory design, training and education, new social media and audio-visual production, innovation in terms of economy, business and society, and new R+D+I systems based on users. The projects promote participation and collaboration between people of all ages, the main aim is to spread and share knowledge.
Impact and results
- 8.688 Citilabers (Citilab members)
- 51 member Municipalities
- A total of 48.535 activities during 2016
- 991 workshop participants
- 19 ICT companies
- 14 projects underway
- 4 projects finished
- 30 training programs
- 14 shared knowledge documents
- Opensurf: Internet space with 50 computers and free Wi-Fi
- SeniorLab: Innovation fort people above 50 years
- Individual advice for businesses and entrepreneurs
- LaborLab: support entrepreneurs and social innovation projects
- EduLab and EduTec: educational programs and workshops at schools and the Citilab
