Labs in Spain

In Spain, there are 6 labs of the Ibero-American Network of Labs, in addition to SEGIB’s LABIC (Civic Innovation Labs), which is regional international lab throughout Ibero-America.

Civic Innovation Labs – LABIC

The LABIC (Laboratorios de Innovación Ciudadana) are promoted by the Ibero-American General Secretariat since 2014. The LABIC are conceived as an innovation in international development cooperation, and are organized annually in different cities of the region, where 100 citizens gather to prototype projects. Already  organized are #LABICMX (Veracruz, Mexico 2014), #LABICBR (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015), #LABICCO (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 2016), #LABICXLAPAZ (Pasto, Colombia, 2018), #LABICAR (Rosario, Argentina, 2018) and #LABICCR (Liberia, Costa Rica, 2019). More information here.

Citilab

It is a civic lab for social and digital innovation in Cornellà (Catalonia, Spain). A Living Lab that democratizes innovation and develops social and digital innovation policies in joint with citizens. We are knowledge, people, ideas, projects and innovations that respond to social desires, problems or needs of social and digital trends. More information here

Coboi lab

Lab of the City Council of Sant Boi de Llobregat, based in the Quadruple Helix (4H)  innovation model. The lab is a platform that facilitates the joint work between the main stakeholder in the territory (companies, knowledge centers, Public Administration and citizenship) to co-create solutions to Sant Boi’s city challenges collaboratively through co-ideation, co-design, prototyping and testing of innovative solutions. More info: here

La Colaboradora

As part of Zaragoza Activa’s ecosystem (Zaragoza City Council), La Colaboradora (the collaborator) is a physical space of Collective Intelligence, which emerged in 2016, where a collaborative community works on its business, social or creative projects with the only ‘payment’ requirement being the exchange of ideas, services and knowledge through a time bank to strengthen the collaborative economy of its members and their environment. More information here.

LAAAB 

In 2018, the Open [Government] Lab of Aragón emerges as a project of the General Directorate of Open Government and Social Innovation that promotes citizen participation, open innovation and social design through projects based on collective intelligence, accountability and transparency, co-creation of services and public policies, and the promotion of experimental programs whose ultimate goal is to strengthen democracy around three rights: the right to decide, to know and to do. More information in our official channel and in our blog.

Matadero Medialab

It is the civic lab of the Madrid City Council that adopts this name in 2007. It works as a meeting place for the production of open cultural projects. Anyone can make proposals or join others and carry them out in a collaborative way. The activity is structured in work groups, open calls for the production of projects, collaborative research and learning communities around very diverse themes. More information here.

MediaLab UGR

It is an innovation lab created at the University of Granada to articulate participation, co-creation and research initiatives between the various university groups and citizens as a whole. It approaches innovation from multiple perspectives, including social, civic and public innovation, as well as carrying out tasks typical of a government lab within the institution itself.

More information here.

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