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Living Labs for Decarbonisation

Mobility
Energy efficiency
digitalisation
Circular economy
You have the power to impact and we are here to support you.
Living Labs for Energy Decarbonisation wants to challenge the culture of how energy decarbonisation projects are created and developed, innovating from the bottom up with citizens and experimenting in a real-life setting.
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Leading House for NTN Innovation Booster- Living Labs for Decarbonisation

Joelle Mastelic
Program Director
Présidente – Energy Living Lab Association. Leading House
NTN Innovation Booster – Living Labs for Decarbonisation – Program Director
Coordinator – ENoLL Action Oriented Taskforce – Environment & Energy
Email: joelle.mastelic@hevs.ch

Yves Zieba
Communication Director
Vice-President – Energy Living Lab Association – Leading House
NTN Innovation Booster – Living Labs for Decarbonisation – Communication Director.
Email: yves.zieba@energylivinglab.com

Florian Bürki
Treasurer
Energy Living Lab Association Treasurer
Email: florian.burki@energylivinglab.com
Deputy Program Manager

Fiona Zimmermann
Deputy Program Director
NTN Innovation Booster – Living Labs for Decarbonisation – Deputy Program Director
Email:
fiona.zimmermann@hevs.ch
Innovation committee head

Yves Loerincik
Chair - Innovation Committee
Email:
yves.loerincik@eqlosion.ch

Devon Wemyss
Zurich Energy Living Lab Manager
ZHAW
Scientific Researcher in energy and entrepreneurship at ZHAW School of Management and Law
Email: wemy@zhaw.ch

Ricardo J. Da Silva Lima
Professor chez University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland

Ricardo Bonazzi
Professor at the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Management Hevs

Caroline Huwiler
Energy Policy Specialist
Managing Director at Institute for Development, Environment and Energy (IDE-E)

Pierre Roduit
Head of Institute at HES-SO Valais-Wallis

Nathalie Nyffeler
Membre du jury de sélection at civicChallenge
Advisory Committee head

Gaetan Cherix
Advisory Board - Chair
Directeur HEI – HES-SO Valais
Living Lab Managers

Vicente Carabias
Win Lab ZHAW (Winterthur)
Deputy Head ZHAW Institute of Sustainable Development, Head of Smart City Unit at Stadt Winterthur.
Email: cahu@zhaw.ch

Devon Wemyss
Zurich Energy Living Lab Manager
ZHAW
Scientific Researcher in energy and entrepreneurship at ZHAW School of Management and Law
Email: wemy@zhaw.ch

Yves Zieba
Energy Living Lab Manager - Geneva
Syntezia Director
Email: yves.zieba@energylivinglab.com
Giorgio Maric
Lugano Living Lab
Lugano Living Lab
Email : giorgio.maric@lugano.ch


Sebastian Höhn
Digital Lab BFH-W
Leiter Digital Lab at Berner Fachhochschule BFH (Berner Fachhochschule BFH)
Wohlen bei Bern, Berne
Email: Sebastien.hoehn@bfh.ch

Wladyslaw Senn
Laboratoire de l'énergie - Vergers - Meyrin
Email: laboratoire_energie@terragir.ch

Laurent Horvath
Smart Water - Innovation Manager at BlueArk, Altis
Email : laurent.horvath@altis.swiss

Yves Loerincik
Energy Living Lab Manager - Lausanne. Red Lab.
Email: yves.loerincik@eqlosion.ch

Eric Imstepf
Mobility Lab Sion
Mobility Lab Sion / Swiss Post
Open Innovation | Mobility Lab | Positive Impact
Email: eric.imstepf@post.ch
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About Living Labs for Decarbonisation
Living Labs for Energy Decarbonisation develops and operates activities to promote technological and social innovation through a public, private, people partnership, transferring knowledge and co-designing solutions using open innovation and design thinking methods
Energy efficiency
Mobility
Circular economy
Digitalisation
process and training
By the way, what is a Living Lab ?

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How can I participate ? Upcoming Events
13
Jan
Semaine de la transition énergétique
19
Jan
NTN Kick Off and Training – Whole Consortium
23
Feb
Virtual Learning for Living Lab Managers
ENoLL virtual learning provided to Living Lab Managers .
18
Mar
Open Lab Event #1
The first open lab event will be organised in….
A big thank you to all our supporters for the NTN Innovation Booster ‘Living Labs for Energy Decarbonisation’. Together we can make an impact and reduce our carbon footprint! And for International Women’s Day, we are pleased to present a well-balanced consortium.

Consortium
Each individual «NTN – Innovation Booster» is supported by a consortium consisting of representatives of the relevant stakeholders from universities and business/society, who together wish to assume responsibility for the
successful implementation of such an «NTN – Innovation Booster». The consortium is therefore the responsible body of an «NTN – Innovation Booster» and jointly represents it to the outside world. The Consortium is a People, Public, Private, Partnership
Supporting Networks
Innovation channels who have an existing relationship with potential implementation partners and commit to marketing and promoting the ‘NTN Booster Living Labs for Decarbonisation’ for the benefit of their members.
Implementation Partners
Implementation partners are those stakeholders who implement the innovation ideas, thus creating economic added value. These can be start-ups, SMEs or larger companies that offer products or services and create economic added value. However, they can also be non-profit organisations such as municipal administrations that can generate societal benefits and reduce public costs through the implementation of innovations.
It is expected that implementation partners part fund the innovation teams for amounts from 5kCHF to 20kCHF depending on the innovation product/service and Living Lab.
Living Lab
“A living lab is an innovation intermediary, which orchestrates an ecosystem of actors in a specific region. Its goal is to co-design products and services, in an iterative way, with key stakeholders in a public private people partnership and in a real-life setting. One of the outcomes of this co-design process is the co-creation of social value (benefit). To achieve its objectives, the Living Lab mobilises existing innovation tools and methods or develop new ones.» (Mastelic, 2019).
The Living Lab Managers are the Innovation Team Leaders: “regional catalysts, who are trained and certified in co-design and the living lab process. Living Lab managers facilitate the Innovation teams through the co-design process. Living Labs are members of The Energy Living Lab Association and social franchises.
Innovation Teams
Innovation teams operate through the living labs and comprise living lab managers, implementation partners, university representatives and ideally, customers who are expected to benefit from the planned innovations. They may also include other key stakeholders who play a role in developing the idea, such as regulatory authorities.
Leading House
This is a non-profit organisation that acts as an applicant vis-à-vis Innosuisse and on behalf of the consortium. The leading house assumes responsibility vis-à-vis Innosuisse for processing the «NTN – Innovation Boosters». The leading house supports the consortium in the conception and implementation of the «NTN – Innovation Boosters».
The leading house is the Energy Living Lab Association with President – Joelle Mastelic. The project manager of the leading house is Fiona Zimmermann.
The Energy Living Lab Association is the Franchiser of the Living Labs, providing guidance and training as well as certification of living labs.
Research Partners
Research, document and publish the scientific findings including science–based innovations that go beyond the latest technology or knowledge and require an exchange of knowhow and/or technology between the university and implementation partners.
The research partners are HES SO, ZHAW and SUPSI


The NTN Innovation Booster – Living Lab for Decarbonisation is managed by the Leading House:
Association “Energy Living Lab”
c/o HES-SO Valais-Wallis
Technopôle 3
CH- 3960 Sierre
Switzerland