Method Training for Living Labs and Transdisciplinarity

On 8 April 2024, our methodological training for Living Labs and transdisciplinarity started. Participants are outstanding Central Asian experts on energy transition and sustainability from academia, business and NGOs. The four trainers come from the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Freiburg Institute of Applied Ecology and the ISoG BW. It is organised by ISoG BW and the SPCE Hub and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with support from the Federal Foreign Office.

Central Asian Energy Transition Experts

Programme

Day 1
Sunday
April 7, 2024
Time tbaArrival in Frankfurt/Main, Train to Heilbronn
7:00 pmInformal gathering in Heilbronn
Day 2
Monday
April 8, 2024
9:30 – 10:00 amWalk to the Bildungscampus in Heilbronn.
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Introduction to the Workshop Dr Sebastian Schiek,
Bildungscampus 13, Room 1.12
12:00 – 1:30 pmGroup lunch at the Bildungscampus
1:30– 5:00 pmLiving Lab Basics, Long-term Vision & Openness of Innovation
Processes
Prof. Dr. Monika Gonser, ISoG BW

Bildungscampus 13, Room 1.12
  
Day 3
Tuesday April 9, 2024
9:30 – 10:00 amWalk to the Bildungscampus in Heilbronn
10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Transdisciplinary cooperation, co-creation and institutional approaches in the Living Lab Environment

Dr. Regina Rhodius, Öko-Institut e.V.
Bildungscampus 13, Room 1.12

12:00 – 1:00 pmGroup lunch at the Bildungscampus
1.00 – 2.30 pm

Transdisciplinary cooperation, co-creation and institutional approaches in the Living Lab Environment

Dr. Regina Rhodius, Öko-Institut
e.V.

Bildungscampus 13, Room 1.12

2:30 – 5:30 pmGovernance Models for Living Labs; Business Models, Funding & IPRs of Living Labs
Prof. Dr. Monika Gonser, ISoG BW

Bildungscampus
13, Room 1.12
Day 4
Wednesday
April 10, 2024
9:10Travel by train from Heilbronn to Karlsruhe
11.30Presentations on how to cooperate with local communities and stakeholders in rural Central Asia
Nora Rakhimova, Ainura Sagyn: Enganging with citizens and stakeholders
After lunchWalk to HKA
Welcome at HKA  

 

  • Presentation: strategic plans for living labs – experiences from HKA (Prof. Dr. Jochen Eckart, HKA)
  • PPT Living lab MoveMore (Oliver Hochlehnert, HKA)
  • PPT Citizens Science and Sensor Bikes – a new perspective on cycling
    (Martin Bejarano, HKA)
  • Short survey and test rides with SensorBike (Martin Bejarano, HKA)
Day 5
Thursday
April 11, 2024
8.30 am
Site visit living-labs in the city of Karlsruhe (Karlsstraße und Passagenhof)

 

Verena Wagner and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Riel

2:00 pmVisit the Quartier Zukunft, Labor Stadt
Dr. Volker Stelzer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Day 6

Friday

April 12, 2024

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Presentation: stakeholder engagement – guiding questions for involving stakeholders in living labs (Eckart)

  • Role play with participants – managing the perspectives of stakeholders on the development of living labs (facilitated role play, participants get role description, preparation role play,
    implementation role play, feedback session) (Eckart, Lutz)
2:00 – 5:30 pmPresentation:
CAMA project: living labs in Nairobi and Kampala (Catharina)
 

 

  • Group discussion participant CAMA and workshop – How to adapt the living lab methodology to local context in CA and Africa (facilitated discussion with guiding questions) (Catharina)
Day 7
Saturday
April 13, 2024
8:10Travel by train from Karlsruhe to Brussels
 Free time in Brussels to explore the city on your own.
Day 8 
Sunday
April 14, 2024
 
 Free time in Brussels to explore the city on your own.
Day 9 
Monday
April 15, 2024
 
6:30 – 10:00 amBreakfast at the hotel
10 am – 1 pmPresentation Ainur Sospanova
Presentation Abylaikhan Soltanayev, Taalaibek Mederov
3:00 pm – 4 pmMeeting with the EU External Action Service
from 4:30 pmNext steps-meeting
7:00 pmWrap up dinner at the restaurant ‘t Kelderke in Brussels
Day 10 
Tuesday April 16, 2024 
8:15 – 8:30 amTravel by public transportation to the Press Club Brussels Europe
(travel time: approx. 15 minutes)
Meeting point: hotel lobby
9.00 am – 12:15 pmConference
with inputs from participants at the Press Club Brussels Europe
12:15 – 1:00 pmLunch
Day 11 
Wednesday
April 17, 2024
 
Time
tba
Departure from Brussels

Partners

Intersectoral School of Governance Baden-Württemberg (ISoG BW)
Hochschule Karlsruhe - University of Applied Sciences
Financed by DAAD with Funds from the German Federal Foreign Office