Learning and innovation network (LINK)

Learning and innovation network (LINK)

LINK creates a network of Learning Innovation Lab in Europe, which makes it possible to have exchanges of best practice concerning challenges in demography and in implementing care and support.

Goal and purpose of the Project

The goal with the project is to pilot a new model for the Learning Innovation Lab. Several learning and innovation labs in Europe will build a network between universities and organisations, that use or will use Learning Innovation Lab to meet challenges in social services. The purpose is to build a model for Innovation Learning Lab and create a network of the labs. This in order to contribute to the business development and to exchange best practice between partners in the project. LINK also aims to contribute to implementing integrated care and support in social services.

Target group

LINK has several target groups depending on what challenge the partner within the project chooses as theirs to work with. For example, in the case of Östergötland, Sweden, the Learning Innovation Lab will mainly have users of the social services and the caregivers as their target groups, but also stakeholders and representatives from the civil society and the adult education.

Methodology

In the project we will create a flexible and robust model of Learning Innovation Lab.The model will be used as a support when an activity or organisation will create a Learning Innovation Lab to solve a problem. As a support to the ones wanting to use the lab model, a digital learning platform will be designed to ameliorate exchange of best practice between labs and also teach the basics in the lab model. All the components in the project will be piloted during October 2023 and January 2025.

Financing

LINK is co-financed by the European Union by Erasmus plus programme. The project lasts during the years of 2022- 2025. The project is a collaboration between seven partners in six different European countries.