Projet Numana En Cours

LIV - Quebec's network of innovation laboratories dedicated to aging

LIV is a network that brings together the living laboratories that are experimenting in Quebec to meet the challenges of an aging population and enable our seniors to age in good living conditions.

Why did Numana select this project?

There are currently around 15 living laboratories in Quebec that focus on the expectations, needs, concerns and aspirations of the elderly, seeking to improve their quality of life, well-being and autonomy. Although innovative, these laboratories often operate in isolation, limiting their potential impact.

Thanks to its significant involvement since 2016, Numana has demonstrated its ability to bring together private, institutional and public players around structuring projects, creating strategic innovation ecosystems. One notable example is the ‘Le 16’ project at Berthiaume-Du-Tremblay residences. Through our mobilisation work, the innovation laboratories have expressed a desire for Numana to build and lead a network to encourage the exchange of best practice and collaboration between living laboratories.

Project objectives

LIV set its objectives using a questionnaire inspired by the Delphi method.

Document
Recenser les initiatives existantes et les modèles innovants, et soutenir l’amélioration continue de ces initiatives.
Networking and collaboration
Linking initiative holders to encourage them to work together and strengthen experimentation and networking.
Amplify and scale up
Increasing the scope of techno-social innovations in ageing and facilitating their scaling up.
Bring out
Encourage the creation of cross-sector structuring initiatives.
Promote innovation
Encouraging collaborative, technological, social and public innovation.
Develop
Promote economic, social and solidarity-based development linked to ageing. Increase the level of digital and technological literacy (including AI).
Position
Raise Quebec's profile as a leader in innovation on ageing.

Today, Numana, in partnership with LLio (Open Innovation Laboratory CCTT Rivière-du-Loup) and Projet Collectif, is developing and structuring LIV (Innovation Laboratory on Ageing), an initiative aimed at bringing together and strengthening the impact of innovation laboratories dedicated to ageing across Quebec.

LIV is a network that brings together living laboratories and innovation cells that are experimenting in Quebec to meet the challenges of an ageing population and enable older people to age in good living conditions. This collaboration will make it possible to experiment with new approaches and maximise the impact of innovations for the well-being of the elderly.

Vision

To transform Quebec into a leading innovation ecosystem where collaborative, people-centred solutions enable seniors to age in optimal conditions, improving their quality of life, independence and well-being, while raising Quebec’s profile in the field of innovation on ageing.

Mission

The mission of Regroupement LIV is to connect, support and amplify the work of innovation laboratories on ageing in Quebec. It also aims to foster the emergence of new joint initiatives to meet the needs of older people.

To achieve its objectives, the LIV will deploy a series of actions structured around several components:

Supporting members and laboratories

Provide strategic support, including member profiles, monitoring of international models, foresight workshops and SWOT analyses to encourage collaboration.
Support the mobilisation of knowledge via a shared knowledge base and coaching in open knowledge publishing.
Support experimentation by helping to find sites, offering coaching on methodologies and developing joint projects.
Providing support for evaluation and standardisation.

Connecting members and the ecosystem

Organise online events (themed seminars four times a year) and face-to-face events (annual event, annual tour).
Facilitate networking between laboratories, as well as with players from different sectors of society and the ageing ecosystem, including connections between different territories.

Amplify projects and innovations

Seek funding to scale up projects.
Direct members towards support players and societal-scale structuring projects.
Promote innovations and transfer them to new provincial and international markets.
Build bridges with the innovation support ecosystem (research, industry).

Acting together and developing new initiatives

Develop joint projects between members.
Steering the development of structuring initiatives, such as an intergenerational residential project focused on ageing.
Setting up participatory design activities
Assessing the collective impact
[Development of impact indicators, common measures and an evaluation plan based on the theory of change to be developed collectively – based on the evaluation approach for collective impact projects (CIP)].

Theory of change

LIV’s theory of change is based on the principle that federating and energising innovation labs on ageing, which often work in silos, will lead to significant advances in the health, independence and well-being of older people.

If the LIV actively supports the laboratories (strategy, knowledge mobilisation, experimentation, evaluation), connects the key players (labs, ecosystem, territories) and amplifies the scope of their work (funding, valorisation, transfer).

Innovation labs will then be better equipped, collaborate more, avoid duplication of effort and develop more robust solutions that are better adapted to needs.

This will lead to an increase in the number, quality and scale of social and technological innovations, aligned with government and regional priorities, and respectful of fundamental ethical principles (active participation, dignity, transparency, etc.).

The result will be a tangible improvement in the quality of life, independence and well-being of older people in Quebec, a better response to the systemic challenges of ageing, and a stronger positioning for Quebec as a leader in the field.

Ultimately, this will contribute to a transformation of care and support practices, enabling seniors to age in good living conditions and avoid ‘horror stories’, while promoting sustainable economic and social development.

The coordinating partners, Numana (industry and mobilising the cross-sector ecosystem), Projet collectif (mobilising knowledge, leading communities of practice) and Le Laboratoire en innovation ouverte (participatory and innovation methodologies, facilitation), will play a central role in operationalising this strategy.

Participating Living labs: