LILA INTEGRATES EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION INTO URBAN AND NATURAL DOMAINS
LILa, short for Living Innovation Lab, will provide a unique semi-controlled outdoor setting at the University of Twente campus. Its construction started in 2023, after its completion, it will function as a research, innovation and education lab to enable experimentation and support the development of new skills for students, researchers and professionals. Local communities and industrial partners will help connect this lab to the larger global ecosystems in which the UT collaborates.
The LILa site will host more than fifteen transdisciplinary experimental sections both above and below ground. Scientific and societal challenges are at the heart of the lab and will involve scientists from multiple faculties clustered around different types of experiments and expertise.