Design & map
Student driving groups co-design the lab, define protocols and map the local ecosystem of challenges, stakeholders and potential allies. Transparency, horizontality and social inclusion guide every decision.
Living Labs
How do communities co-create change from within?
The Living Labs are participatory spaces for social innovation embedded within each partner university. They mark the project’s move from diagnosis to action — taking what the Beyond Gender Academy and Mapping Equality reveal, and co-designing, prototyping and testing real solutions to gender-inequality challenges in everyday university life.
Three phases of action
Explore & co-create
The driving group engages the community through interviews, focus groups and co-creation sessions. Using challenge-based, participatory methods, the group prioritises the most viable, promising solutions and pilots them — inside and outside the university.
Test & sustain
Pilot results are shared with the community to gather feedback and measure impact. Each lab produces an Action Plan and a Sustainability Plan so the lab, its projects and its culture of change endure well beyond the project.
Living Labs in our universities
Three Living Labs ran across the consortium, each tackling challenges its own community identified. Read the cross-campus findings and prototypes in the Impact Report.
Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Spain
A student-led lab co-creating solutions around participation, care and everyday campus culture.
University of Thessaly
Greece
A lab building safe spaces and community, using World Café and co-design to open dialogue.
TU Dortmund
Germany
A lab focused on community and multipliers, with guidelines and action plans for lasting change.
A scientific paper on the Living Labs methodology and results is in preparation.