Within the ESIRA project, the first dissemination webinar was organized on December 18th with the topic: “Rural Labs as Social Innovation Methodology: Theoretical Basis and Practical Experiences”.
During the webinar, the project team shared the results achieved so far and discussed good practices and issues in the implementation of Living Labs with more than 70 representatives of the academic sector and sister projects.

In the context of the ESIRA project, Rural Labs are space for co-creation, innovation, and experimentation with the members of multi-actor platforms (MAPs) already established to solve some of the problems that women, youth, migrants, elderly, and other vulnerable groups are facing. Within the Rural Labs, along with the MAP members, experts, collaborators, and other stakeholders can join and contribute to the problem-solving process. The ESIRA project established 9 MAPs in 7 different countries.
During the webinar, participants shared different experiences in the implementation of living labs – from the method for helping families in need to the scientific lab designed to create new, innovative, products, showing that the same Living Lab methodology can be used for different projects.