It is recognized that the success of living laboratories depends on an ambitious vision, a solid governance structure and a well-defined long-term strategy.

The HCB Living Lab aims to integrate these structural elements based on concerted action between the public and private sectors, collectively committed to ensuring the implementation of actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The project is also based on a co-creative approach, in which entities, partners and the HCB community, together with academia, entrepreneurs, the local community and citizens, work and interact to ensure a fair transition to a more resilient, sustainable and carbon neutral society.

The main objective is, therefore, to ensure the pursuit of advanced knowledge in the areas of sustainability covered by the project, in a context in which innovation, digitalization and entrepreneurship are the essential drivers of change.

✓ Reduce the consumption of resources and renew their use cycle

✓ Transform cities into healthier and more sustainable environments, and improve the quality of life of their inhabitants

✓ Raise awareness of the benefits of sustainable lifestyles

✓ Promote active and participatory citizenship in communities, encouraging investment in common well-being, in the spaces where they live and work

✓ Produce information, knowledge and useful experiences for the development of pilot projects

✓ Create new tools and applications, in continuous improvement, to generate increasingly better performances and optimized results

✓ Promote the creation of services and business models, ensuring the integration of solutions around sustainability