How we made the Urban Lab. Conclusions and recommendations from the pilot implementation in Gdynia and Rzeszów
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The project of pilot implementation of urban labs in Polish cities was conducted between 2019 and 2021 and largely coincided with the extremely difficult time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prepared at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development in cooperation with the Department of Assistance Programmes of the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy, the innovative concept of an urban institution that is aimed at solving specific problems and addresses the challenges of urban development and management by, among other things, sharing urban resources, but above all through the involvement of inhabitants, proved to be a successful idea that is worth disseminating.
1. Adaptation of the urban lab model in Gdynia and Rzeszów – theory versus reality
1.1 A model approach to the urban lab adapted to Polish conditions
1.2. Urban Lab Gdynia
1.3. Urban Lab Rzeszów
1.4. The role of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development in the project
2. The organisational structure of urban labs
2.1. The urban lab team
2.2. The Strategic Group
2.3. The Thematic Team
3. Activities of Urban Labs in Gdynia and Rzeszów – good practices
3.1. Opening up urban data
3.2. Urban Hackathon
3.3. Urban Innovation Incubator
3.4. Rzeszów Urban Research Laboratory
3.5. Gdynia Dialogue Platform (Decidim)
3.6. Urban Cafe
3.7. Other activities undertaken at the labs