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This publication presents a collection of abstracts from the International Scientific Conference “Living Labs: Opening Innovation Ecosystems for Co-creation and Impact”, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, on May 27, 2025. It also features the “Living Labs of Lithuania 2025” compendium, showcasing Living Labs currently operating across the country.

Living Labs: Opening Innovation Ecosystems for Co-creation and Impact

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Low-carbon energy transformations to support carbon-neutral societies is an important and urgent topic and subject to current national priorities and socio-economic planning. This book addresses the societal challenges and opportunities that come with the transition in EU member states such as energy poverty and inequality, energy security, gender inequality, energy efficiency improvements, climate change mitigation, growth in green investments, etc. It contains a balanced approach of theoretical concepts with an impressive range of relevant case studies to investigate the issues, develop indicator frameworks, identify barriers and drivers, and create policies and measures to unlock opportunities.

Features:

Addresses systematically and comprehensively the low-carbon energy transition, its barriers, and its societal implications.
Discusses the main societal challenges and opportunities of low-carbon energy transition from theoretical and practical points of view.
Provides definitions of concepts, measurement indicators, policies, and a framework for overcoming barriers and enforcing drivers.
Includes case studies on low-carbon energy transition challenges and opportunities that are developed for EU countries.
Encourages discussion on policies and measures necessary to overcome identified barriers and proposes how to promote a just and smooth low-carbon energy transition.
 

This book is a great reference for academics, researchers, graduate students, and professionals such as energy producers, city planners, policymakers, etc. interested in current and emerging trends in sustainable energy.


Societal Challenges and Opportunities of Low-Carbon Energy Transformations

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Green transformation in the European rural areas

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Low-carbon transition is a shift from an economy that depends heavily on fossil fuels to a sustainable, low-carbon energy economy. This book analyzes the role of renewables in driving the low-carbon transition in agriculture, explores the circular bio-based economy, and examines policies and strategies designed to facilitate low-carbon transition in agriculture, greenhouse gas mitigation, and adaptation trends in the European Union agriculture sector. It provides new knowledge and understanding about the impact of low-carbon energy transition, emphasizes the key role of renewable energy in a wide range of agricultural activities, and offers alternative sustainable solutions to current practices.

Low Carbon Transition Sustainable Agriculture in the European Union

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The book aims to contribute to the scarce literature on the role of servitization in farming and rural development. It offers a conceptual and empirical understanding of the ways of servitization in agriculture and rural development, examined through the prism of an evolutionary approach based on the theory of qualitative structure. The method of qualitative structure explains why and how a switch from product-oriented business logic to service-oriented business logic happens and helps to find many new insights useful for improving farm management and socio-economic development of rural regions. It combines a systematic and evolutionary analysis of literature on servitization and agricultural production strategies with case studies of farming and territorial servitization projects implemented in Lithuania. It will be of great interest to researchers and students in the field of rural development studies, servitization and business model innovation.

Rural Transformation through Servitization: A Qualitative Structure Approach

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The research subject of this monograph is multi-sided collaborative networks designed to help farmers and other entrepreneurs in rural areas to develop and accelerate the processes of business servitization in collaboration with a wide range of actors and groups.

The role of cooperation networks and their platforms in serving the economy of rural areas: a monograph

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Rural Innovations and International Scientific Collaboration: LSMC EKVI Represented in Portugal

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Social Economy and Community Engagement in Practice: Reflections from a Rural Lab in Druskininkai

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Reviving regions through taste and tradition: Lithuanian Research Presented at the Global Sustainable Tourism Conference 2025

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Institute researchers presented project results at international conference on sustainable development in Bangkok

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LIRA lab – a New Lab of EKVI – Joins the European Network of Living Labs as an Adherent Member!

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New Opportunities for Local Food Creators: Culinary Tourism Solutions Guide for the Baltic Sea Region

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