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The future is made together.
Sitra Lab is about experimentation and the development of practical solutions to achieving societal changes.
What is it about?
Sitra Lab is a programme that brings together people who bring about societal changes and helps them in carrying out effective experiments.
In the programme, participants learn together from practical experiments. The experiments are concrete in nature and they are carried out in everyday operating environments.
Two to four programmes are launched annually, with a duration of three to eight months. The topics of the programmes are based on Sitra’s strategy.
The experiments of Sitra Lab’s participants are supported by globally leading expertise and good practices. While working on a societal challenge, the participants will learn from each other’s experiments and competencies. This is a great way to strengthen the participants’ ability for making changes.
Starting, implementing and disseminating changes is supported by networks assembled around the experiments. The impact of the experiments is assessed and the lessons learned are shared for wider use.
The solutions created in Sitra Lab are shared for the use of the Finnish society.
Who can participate?
The participants in Sitra Lab programmes are chosen through an open call. The selection criteria and possibility of pilot funding are considered on a case-by-case basis for each programme.
As a rule of thumb, teams are preferred. The selection focuses on multidisciplinary and extensive competence, diversity and the capacity to carry out impactful experiments within the participant’s own operating environment.
How do we work?
In Sitra Lab, Finnish societal organisations come together to share insights, learn and innovate together. Sitra Lab is multidisciplinary – it challenges established practices and fosters trust between different parties by enabling experiments that connect various sectors and operating environments.
The impact of Sitra Lab programmes are assessed in three different ways. Namely, how:
- impactful the individual experiments are
- much the experiment promotes the theme selected for the programme
- successfully the development work can be continued after the experiment in the participant’s own operating environment or within change networks
The impact of Sitra Lab’s programmes and experiments is assessed using various methods both during and after the programmes. The assessment specialists provide constructive feedback during the programme and carry out a post-assessment six months after the programme has ended.
Open Lab
Sitra Lab applies globally leading research and good practices in its programmes. Open Lab is a way of presenting the lessons learned and benefits to a wider audience in the form of interesting lectures.
Open Lab continues to grow and evolve during 2023.
To find out more about the current programme offering, please see the following expert interviews published on Sitra’s YouTube channel.
Previous Sitra Labs
A peek into previous Sitra Lab programme seasons.
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