The Stakeholders Community Hub (SC-HUB), developed by the Athena Research Center, extends the Living Lab model into the online space. It provides an interactive and inclusive platform that allows stakeholders to stay connected, contribute to ongoing work, and access key resources. As such, it supports the project’s broader goal of strengthening metropolitan resilience through local knowledge, dialogue, and co-creation.
The SC-HUB is more than just a repository. It is a dynamic environment that facilitates meaningful participation, improves coordination, and supports shared decision-making across the project’s diverse community of stakeholders. Through its intuitive interface, users can exchange ideas, review plans, provide feedback, and collaborate in real time, regardless of their location or schedule.
The platform includes a range of key features designed to maximise its impact:
- Boosted stakeholder engagement through easy access to the latest plans, materials, and updates.
- Facilitated collaboration and discussion, enabling stakeholders to share insights and co-develop solutions at their own pace.
- Improved planning and coordination tools for Living Lab organisers to manage activities, communicate with participants, and track progress.
- Enhanced visibility and uptake of results through a centralised space for sharing and disseminating outcomes.
- Multilingual access, currently available in English, Greek, Romanian, Catalan, and more to come, to ensure inclusive participation across all eight case study areas.
- Secure and user-friendly login, allowing trusted access via external authentication providers.
With eight case study areas, Prague, Leipzig, Funen-Odense, Athens, Barcelona, Bologna, Brasov, and Birmingham, CARMINE brings together a rich diversity of actors and urban contexts. The SC-HUB helps bridge these local experiences, supporting Living Lab organisers in coordinating activities and capturing insights across regions.
Ultimately, the Stakeholders Community Hub is more than just a tool. It reflects CARMINE’s commitment to co-creation, transparency, and impact. By making the Living Lab process continuous and more accessible, it helps transform local input into actionable strategies for climate resilience.
The platform is now live and ready to explore at https://schub.carmine-project.eu and is also accessible via the Instruments page on the CARMINE website.
The SC-HUB was developed by the Athena Research Center as part of the Horizon Europe CARMINE project. The scientific lead is Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, Director of the Sustainable Development Unit and the AE4RIA Network. For more information, contact SC-HUB Technical Manager Panagiota Koltsida at p.koltsida@athenarc.gr.
