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What are our first-generation Living Labs doing now? While the second-generation Living Labs are getting ready to test their business models, we are checking in with the three original Recharge Living Labs - The Hunt Museum, Museo del Tessuto and Eesti Meremuuseum / Estonian Maritime Museum - to understand how their projects are moving forward. On our journal, Una Hussey from The Hunt Museum explains how the Living Lab is evolving, expanding its reach and putting to test, once again, the CSR Community Business Model Iteration. Read the entry here: https://shorturl.at/lFhVy

RECHARGE's coordinator Trilce Navarrete presented an overview of the work from the past 2 years at the Italian cultural economics and management international workshop entitled Rethinking Culture and Creativity, organised by the Università degli Studi 'Gabriele d'Annunzio' di Chieti, Università degli Studi di Torino (department of economics), Università degli Studi di Macerata, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Università di Catania (department of humanities), and Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (department of economics). The title of this year’s workshop was Behavioural Impact of Cultural Production, which took place 3-4 October 2024 at the University of Chieti-Pescara. We presented at the session on Models of Participatory Governance. Here is the recap on our Diary: https://lnkd.in/e_UapkHw ...and here is the downloadable version of the presentation, available in our RECHARGE RESEARCH page: https://shorturl.at/XAHgo

The LIVING LABS FRONTIERS conference, held from September 25-27, 2024, in Timisoara, Romania, brought together a diverse group of international innovators, public officials, corporate leaders, and academics to explore the evolving role of Living Labs in driving systemic change. Organized by the ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs), this flagship event was an inspiring platform for collaboration, discussion, and exchanging ideas on how to shape the future through societal engagement. Una Hussey from The Hunt Museum was there presenting RECHARGE. On our REdiary, she reflects on Living Labs and Participatory Business Models and gives us some insights from the LIVING LABS FRONTIERS Conference: https://lnkd.in/ePsV-Wsm

From September 4-6, 2024, the 11th European Workshop on Applied Cultural Economics took place at the María Zambrano Campus of the University of Valladolid, Segovia. The interesting event brought together scholars from both Europe and other parts of the world, who presented around 50 research papers in the field of Cultural Economics, through parallel sessions full of insights and significant thematic and methodological advances in our area of study. Read the account by Fatima Espinosa Casero from Universidad de Valladolid on our REDiary: https://lnkd.in/eZvQ2RK6

This September marked an important milestone for the Recharge Consortium and the next generation of Recharge Living Labs (LLs). Representatives from the six institutions involved in the Recharge Next program gathered for their first in-person meeting in Warsaw. Want to know what happened? Read the RECHARGE Recap on our Diary: https://lnkd.in/dfZ_6keQ

Back on August 8 2024 the RECHARGE team which included Una Hussey from The Hunt Museum, Nadia Nadesan from Platoniq Foundation, and Natalia C. at Fundacja Centrum Cyfrowe shared their experiences within the RECHARGE project and facilitated a workshop. Here is a full recap of the event by Nadia https://lnkd.in/ejsEtVJf

The new Recharge Newsletter is out, and we're thrilled to introduce the 6 new Living Labs! Check out the latest updates and subscribe to our newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/d5EBbEmN ??

Serfenta, one of the recipients of RECHARGE NEXT, is the winners of Europa Nostra award. Read about them on our diary at https://shorturl.at/jT1mU - If you like what you read and you want to support Serfenta too, you can also vote for the special Audience Award heading here - https://lnkd.in/dDhXfPY

The last institution we are introducing as part of RECHARGE NEXT is the Hilversum Public Library and Hilversum Heritage House, and comes with a mission:?make local history more relevant and accessible. Read more about their ideas on our REdiary: https://shorturl.at/hGNdU

In the round of #RECHARGENEXT introductions, it's the turn of The Serfenta Association and its labour of love: a passionate, long-term commitment to craft. Read more on our diary: https://shorturl.at/AlJbn