nlab4cit.euis that the app Commonshood will be implemented and disseminated so that it can be used by many other young people. However, we would like to extend its use to other public services as well. We are convinced that technology can help local administration to involve citizens more, to make services more efficient, to reduce […]
A recap of the main features of each of the three Local Labs
The pilot project in Roeselare is really getting started. On Saturday the 4th of March, the city of Roeselare held a press conference to explain the participatory process to the wider public. Local youngsters can transform the parc, Pastoorsbos, into the playground of their dreams through the virtual world of Roblox. This pilot project takes […]
NLAB4CIT partners Open Lab Athens, UNITO, the city of Roeselare and the municipality of Kaisariani gathered in Greece last week. For two days, they’ve explored: To do so, they have arranged meetings with people from local collaborative projects to exchange experiences and knowledge. With Sociality and Dock, they discussed the patform synergatika.gr. The European project CO3 […]
The NLAB4CIT partners gathered in Turin for a two-day Consortium Meeting. We kicked off in the municipality of Collegno, where UNITO presented the FirstLife platform and how the mapping of use cases works. Next, UNITO presented a draft paper on the concepts of co-production and civic technology. That gave us a theoretical basis to work […]
On Friday the 17th of June, a workshop took place in Collegno with local stakeholders, the municipality of Collegno and UNITO. The objective of the meeting was to present the pilot idea to the local stakeholders and explain to them why they have been chosen to participate in this project (i.e. their presence in the […]
On Sunday the fifth of June, an NLAB4CIT-workshop took place in the Kaisariani Museum of National Resistance. The workshop was aimed at co-designing services for the local Volunteer Fire-fighting Group. This group is responsible for guarding the Kaisariani forest while it also conducts fire-fighting operations in the area and other areas in cooperation with the […]
On the 11th and 12th of May, the knowledge institutions of the NLAB4CIT-projects (Open Lab Athens, UNITO and Howest) came to Roeselare and Kortrijk to visit the Belgian partners. This partner meeting was organised by the city of Roeselare and Howest. We kicked off with a presentation about the laboratory of local citizen participation in […]
On Tuesday the 19th of April, Roeselare organized the pilot mapping workshop developed by Open Lab Athens (OLA). Besides the internal project team consisting out of Jasmien Wellens and Gino Dehullu, the policy officers youth and participation, the project leader public domain responsible for playgrounds and someone of the youth council all took part in […]