Missions of OpenLab.brussels
The OpenLab.brussels promotes participatory research as a fully-fledged research method within the universities. It values existing expertise dispersed throughout the institutions and stakeholders involved in this type of research.
The OpenLab.brussels aims to promote knowledge sharing through organizing events (training, workshops, conferences, etc.), the supply of toolkits, and a documentation repository.
The OpenLab.brussels aims to develop active networks within VUB and ULB, with the stakeholders, but also with other participatory research hubs, experts, researchers, and supporting staff working reflectively on a European scale under the aegis of CIVIS and Eutopia.
The OpenLab.brussels offers a support service to foster mutual VUB-ULB (and, by extension, the members of the CIVIS-EUTOPIA networks) participatory research project proposals and their implementation. It makes available to the researchers its infrastructures based in USquare (meeting room, co-working spaces) and its expertise.
In the longer term, the vision of OpenLab.brussels is to become an accelerator for participatory research projects with a interdisciplinary base, infrastructures, methods, and practices that are part of a participatory dynamic.
