Establishing a social innovation lab focusing on the field of home care is no easy feat, but the D-Care Labs partners took this challenge in stride and have managed, through the work of the 9 regional D-Care Labs, to innovate more than 50 home care solutions.

While partners from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania worked hard on establishing a social innovation lab in their countries, they were supported by experts from the University of Heidelberg (UHEI).

The work package Transnational Lab, led by UHEI, functioned as an incubator that provided support and knowledge to partners in the field of social innovation and enabled knowledge exchange among them. A series of workshops in the transnational lab covered essential elements of setting up an innovation lab, from needs analysis and defining stakeholders to developing a business model for the lab. It also provided a process template for the regional labs and thus the labs were well on their way towards the establishment of the social innovation lab and solutions for home care.

To see how it all came about and what the incubation process of the nine regional D-Care Labs looked like, read the publication ‘Incubation of the regional D-Care Labs’ here: https://dtp.interreg-danube.eu/uploads/media/approved_project_output/0001/55/8b5694395eaee7ff76864ad63c7e30a38bf9b426.pdf