Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Andy Lane, The Open University, United Kingdom.

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353760: Course Image: Photo by Jake Gard on Unsplash

324117: Session 1 Living Labs: People inspecting crop field trials: AgriLink Living Lab Trainers’ Handbook. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

327132: Summary of Session 1: Living Lab members in a workshop: Chris Blackmore

324121: Session 2 The nature of innovative agricultural advisory services: Group of farmers and advisors talking in a field: © Agrilink. https://www.agrilink2020.eu/

354136: Figure 2.1a Actors involved in a contemporary AKIS: EU SCAR (2012) Agricultural knowledge and innovation systems in transition – a reflection paper, Brussels. Available at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/agriculture/scar/pdf/akis_web.pdf

354138: Figure 2.1b Example of a national AKIS for Italy; Figure 2.1c Figure 2.1b Example of a national AKIS for Greece: PRO AKIS (2012-2015) ‘Prospects for Farmers’ Support: Advisory Services in European AKIS’, https://proakis.hutton.ac.uk/sites/proakis.hutton.ac.uk/files/PROAKIS_findings%20brochure_online.pdf

327135: Summary of Session 2: Group of people on a field visit in Spain: Chris Blackmore

324125: Session 3 The AgriLink approach to Living Labs: Group of people talking and recording conversation on large paper: Emils Kilis

327140: Summary of Session 3: Group of people on a field visit with agricultural advisors in Spain: Melanie von Raaij

324139: Session 4 The multi method approach: applying design thinking and systems thinking: AgriLink paper-based forms being filled in: © Agrilink. https://www.agrilink2020.eu/

327490: Figure 4.1 and 4.2 Example of design thinking stages: Adapted from Interaction Design Foundation. www.interaction-design.org

353888: Figure 4.3 The five steps of design thinking: Bootcamp Bootleg D.School. (2010) Modes of design thinking. D.School, University of Stanford. Available at: https://dschool.stanford.edu/ s/ METHODCARDS-v3-slim.pdf

327143: Figure 4.4 Two examples of systems maps : Andy Lane

327195: Summary of Session 4: Group at a table drawing and discussing a diagram they are producing on large paper : Chris Blackmore

324164: Session 5 The facilitation of Living Labs: Living Lab facilitators and monitors at an AgriLink workshop: Chris Blackmore

324176: Session 5 The facilitation of Living Labs: Living Lab members creating a conversation map: Chris Blackmore

327196: Summary of Session 5: Group of five people sat at a table sharing and discussing ideas: Chris Blackmore

324184: Session 6 The monitoring and evaluation of Living Labs: Discussion group at a preliminary stage of an AgriLink Living Lab: Egil Petter Stræte

324202: Figure 6.2: © The Open University

327201: Figure 6.3: Chris Blackmore

324204: Session 7 Living with a Living Lab: some dos and don’ts: Meeting being held in a barn with farmers: © Agrilink. https://www.agrilink2020.eu/

327203: Summary of Session 7: Presentation being given to Living Lab stakeholders in a room in Norway: Egil Petter Stræte

324208: Session 8 Next steps in planning for a Living Lab: People sitting at table with one writing on large piece of paper: Egil Petter Stræte

327205: Summary of Session 8: Large group sat in a circle sharing experiences about agricultural advisory services: Alina Alexa

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