Call for Abstracts
By placing multi-stakeholder collaboration at the heart of innovation, Living Labs play a transformative role in addressing pressing societal challenges. These include the complexities of ageing societies, widening socio-economic health disparities and transforming (clinical) care and everyday living environments. Living Labs have the potential to make significant contributions to health and wellbeing and creating smart healthy environments. This conference will address state-of-the-art research that explores Living Labs as pivotal ecosystems for transforming all areas of health and wellbeing, including clinical care, smart environments, disease management, public health and prevention to name a few.
On the 13th of May, the ‘Health and Wellbeing Living Labs’ Symposium (Track 1) will focus on the potential of Living Labs to drive innovation through multi-stakeholder collaboration. On day two (May 14) of the conference we will delve into Smart Healthy Environments (Track 2). We focus on creating spaces that promote sustainable happiness and wellbeing. This track will delve into the synergy between the built environment, healthcare, and technological innovations, addressing challenges to enhance individual and collective health while respecting and preserving nature.
Paper Award
We are excited to announce a Best Paper Award at this International Conference, recognizing outstanding scientific contributions to the field. All submitted papers will be considered for this award, with evaluations based on originality of the research, innovative thinking, appropriate scientific methodology, and the quality and impact of the work. The award will be presented during the conference.’
Important dates
If the abstract is accepted (notification deadline February 14, 2025), one of the following steps will apply:
Conference paper
Guidelines
- Full paper should be written in English
- Title: try to be concise
- Abstract: maximum of 200 words; including background and aim, research methods, most important results, and conclusion
- Keywords: maximum of 5 keywords
- The length of the paper: 3.000 words (maximum), excluding references and tables
- Paper structure: introduction, methodology, results and analysis, discussion, conclusion, acknowledgments, references
Extended abstract
Guidelines
- Extended abstracts should be written in English
- Title: try to be concise
- Elements: introduction with background and aim, methodology, important results, discussion and conclusion
- Keywords: maximum of 5 keywords
- The length of the extended abstract: 1.000 words (maximum), excluding references and tables
Poster
Guidelines
- Posters should be written in English
- Elements: title, introduction, methodology, results and analysis, discussion and conclusion
- Size: A0 portrait
- Font size: approximately 24
- Choose one of the formats
- Bring the poster yourself to the conference