The program to co-create solutions of the challenges of the campus is back

The UAB campus is an ideal environment to develop and experiment with new solutions, products, or services collaborating with users and other actors. It is an authentic living lab that allows for the active participation of different agents to contribute their knowledge, experience, and point of view into the development of adapted answers into their specific needs and contexts.

To reinforce said capacities and activate the use of the campus as an environment for the co-creation of answers, UAB has launched the second edition of the program Campus Open Lab: co-creation of answers in an intelligent campus.

This program is aimed at the whole university community and is looking for five-person teams wishing to work with methodologies of co-creation and open innovation to develop projects to improve the campus. The challenges in which the projects will be framed are the following:

• Food: How can we improve the feeding model in the campus, so it becomes a more sustainable service?
• Water: How could we get a more sustainable use of the water resources to make the campus more resilient to climate change?
• Resources: How can we rethink and transform the resource management system in the campus to promote exchanging, reusing and sharing among the university community?
• Mobility: How can we reimagine a decarbonised mobility generated by the university community, in and out of campus, removing the dependencies on fossil fuel and creating a campus more resilient to climate change?
• Acoustic contamination: How could we increment the number of quiet exterior zones in the campus to improve well-being and the health of the university community?

Those interested in participating want to sign up through this link and, from February to June, will work to develop answers to those challenges and acquire capacities on entrepreneurship and innovation methodologies. Each team will have a teamcher that will help along the process. The co-ideated answers will be able to transform into prototypes using the network of the UAB Open Labs and will be evaluated in the Campus, so the UAB will become a real-life living lab.