A Living Lab is a user-centred open innovation ecosystem integrating concurrent research and innovation processes within a business-citizens-government partnership.

It is intended to:

• Engage all stakeholders, especially user communities, at the earlier stage of Research and Innovation for discovering emerging scenarios, usages and behaviours;
• Bring together technology push and market

This is the first special issue of the ECOSPACE Newsletter which is dedicated to the topic of Living Lab. All Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) Integrated Projects (IP), namely Collaboration@Rural, CoSpaces, ECOSPACE, LABORANOVA and WearIT@Work projects are implementing a Living Lab approach in order to further explore, experiment and evaluate the concept of user-centred research and