The CaNeoLabs Experience is the first national gathering of Canadian Innovation labs organized by The Laboratoire en innovation ouverte (LLio: Open Innovation Lab), in collaboration with Social Innovation Canada (SI Canada), with the participation of the Maison de l’innovation sociale (MIS) and the financial support of the Secrétariat du Québec aux relations Canadiennes (SQRC).
This year’s event will take place in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, on October 26 and 27, 2022.
The CaNeoLabs Experience offers a space for managers, facilitators, and researchers, among others interested in the Living Lab approach and participatory and collaborative methodologies, to:
Would you like to get involved in the first CaNeoLabs meeting?
We invite you to share your experience and send a proposal for a contribution related to the following topics:
To address this theme, we invite practitioners to share methodologies, approaches, experiences, cases, and tools to tackle current and emerging challenges to facilitate equal access to tangible and intangible resources and social capital for all individuals and communities.
This theme invites practitioners to specifically share methodologies, approaches, experiences, cases and tools to address current and emerging challenges to promote climate change mitigation as well as new models of socio-economic and territorial innovation practices, among others.
Proposals in this track focus on practices, methodologies, approaches, experiences, cases, and tools to address current and emerging challenges to foster innovation in processes, products, or services, administration, and governance in the public sector.
Applicants may also suggest another topic in their proposal.
Proposals will be evaluated by the CaNeoLabs evaluation committee based on a variety of criteria, including:
Accepted proposals will be presented at the CaNeoLabs Experience in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, on October 26 and 27.
The selected participants will receive an amount to cover part of their travel and accommodation expenses upon presentation of invoices and according to the reimbursement policy of the Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup.
If you are interested in sharing your significant experience with CaNeoLabs, then please feel free to participate and apply via this form.
The call for participation for the CaNeoLabs Experience is open.
The deadline for submissions is August 15, 2022.
Please feel free to contact us at caneolabs@llio.quebec, if you have any questions.
CaNeoLabs aims to co-construct a community of practice to bring out the needs of the various Canadian innovation labs and to promote the sharing of visions, methods, tools, and expertise. A community of practice as a lever to continuously mutualize knowledge and skills to improve and evolve, across Canada, the best collaborative practices focused on people.
To forge an additional link and increase connectivity and exchange between existing labs and those that have emerged over the past 10 years. CaNeoLabs wants to empower practitioners to:
It is a group of people with a concern or problems on the same subject or a common interest, who regularly exchange to learn from each other, share ideas and thus improve their expertise, find solutions, and co-construct new knowledge (Wenger et al., 2002).
APRIL : Needs assessment survey
MAY : Virtual meetings
JUNE : Call for participation in the CaNeolabs Experience
FALL 2022: The CaNeoLabs Experience in Rivière-du-Loup
Let’s meet in Rivière-du-Loup, to :