Last week, the Erasmus+ funded Sport and Social Cohesion Lab (SSCL) was able to meet for the fifth, and last time, in Cologne, Germany. One main goal of the three-year SSCL project is to support the implementation of a highly-participatory Living Lab approach within five sport for social cohesion programmes in four different European countries.
By implementing the approach, the SSCL project aims to increase social cohesion and support practitioners in delivering high-quality sport for social cohesion programmes.
The final project meeting was organised by the German Sport University (GSU). The partners met for two days and shared their latest experiences implementing this Living Lab approach within their sport-based programming. On the first day, the main objectives of the meeting were to finalize the SSCL Toolkit to support future sport-based Living Labs as well as to discuss the final steps of the project. On the second day, the project partners were invited to an interactive event with GSU students, discussing the chances and challenges of Living Labs across Europe. Thank you to everyone involved in this three-year journey and the hospitality of GSU this time!
We are still calling on organisations, practitioners and academics to share their experiences and insights on adopting participatory approaches (e.g. participatory action research, co-production, Living Labs) within their programmes. The call for articles can be found on sportanddev.org
