VITALISE D2.1 Standard Version 1

Although Living Labs have emerged as resilient research and innovation infrastructures and have proved to be a “key” to the integration of research and innovation processes in real-life settings, they still fail to provide and function according to unified and harmonized processes that are easily accessible and exploitable by academic and industry researchers. Towards this end, VITALISE aims to create the first Harmonization guidelines for Living Labs that will facilitate the access of researchers to the provided infrastructures.

This document presents the work performed for the Harmonization of the way Living Labs work for the first semester of VITALISE. The initial work of Harmonization aims to establish the state-of-the-art for the Living Lab services, methods and tools that will be used. This is also used as a baseline upon which the Standard versions will continue evolving throughout VITALISE and beyond. Another important aspect presented in this deliverable is the methodological framework that will be followed in the Harmonization process.