A 3-year experiment building an open innovation platform for sustainable living in Romandie
Facilitating cross-sector collaboration to develop, prototype and test both methods and solutions
Sustainable Living Lab
“With its levels of production and consumption, Switzerland uses about three times the natural resources that are available in the country itself. Such a high level of interdependence entails a commensurate responsibility for global sustainable development.”
– Sustainable Development in Switzerland, Office fédéral du développement territorial, 2015
Why ?
Circular economy and new business models
Global natural resource depletion and climate disruption point to the increasing obsolescence of extractive, linear economic models. At the leading edge of innovation are business models that are environmentally regenerative and socially responsive.
Entrepreneurship and cross-sector leadership
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are spurring a new wave of collaborative action linking business, government, academia and civil society. They openly collaborate in order to support concrete initiatives and develop innovative solutions that tackle global challenges locally.
Arc Lémanique as a regional leader in sustainable innovation
Stakeholders based in Geneva and Lausanne are in a unique position to become a world reference in terms of collaborative innovation for Sustainable Living (SL). We define SL as an approach to social and economic activities, for all societies, rich and poor, which is compatible with the preservation of the environment, social well-being for all and contributes to good governance.
How?
Services
CONSULTING
EXPERTISE IN:
Circular Economy
Business Modeling
(Social) Innovation Design
Facilitation
Cross-Sector Collaboration
Systems Leadership
LEARNING :
COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE:
EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
TRAININGS
Collaborative Innovation
Tools & Methodologies
BECOME A CHALLENGE OWNER AND JOIN THE LAB!
Check our Stories below to discover past innovation journey
Stories
Read some stories about our collaborations
Read about our Climathon Hackathon in collaboration with Climate-Kic, Eqlosion, and UNIL
Read about the HackAgainstHunger, organised by Impact Hub and mandated by the International Telecomms Union (ITU)
Read about our Mashup for Energy, in collaboration with SIG
Read about our Pecha Kucha night, in collaboration with our coworking community
FOUNDING PARTNER
About Engagement Migros
The development fund Engagement Migros supports pioneering projects in the midst of social change, projects that break new ground and test future-oriented solutions. Our approach is to make sure this support is effective, tying funding to coaching and similar services in the Pioneerlab. Engagement Migros is made possible by the companies of the Migros Group thanks to an annual grant of approximately CHF 10 million. It has supplemented the Migros Culture Percentage since 2012. Click here for further information.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY TRANSITION
Fondation MAVA – founding partner of CET
Since the Sustainable Living Lab journey started in 2017, Fondation MAVA joined the lab to scale up its impact nationally and develop and additional focus: circular economy transformation. For more information on CET click here.
