Umeå Live
As a doctoral student I now spend 80% of my time on working with my thesis. The rest of the time I usually teach, but this semester I also participate in a project called Umeå Live (the formal project title is Innovation Cultures). Umeå Live is one out of five Living labs in Sweden receiving funding from VINNOVA (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems). The purpose of all Living Labs is to promote user centered services and products in a collaborative process that involves both end users, companies and partners from academia.
Yesterday the site www.umealive.se was launched and on that site we will try to present everything that happens within the project. I will also have a new blog there (in Swedish) and I will probably update it more often than I update this one.
