Defining and Measuring Tailored Objectives for Your Living Lab Impact

Brainstorm some objectives from the basics, like the number of participants, the demographics of your audience, to more complex objectives, like perhaps your Living Lab has the objective of increasing a person’s sense of belonging.

If you believe an impact area is missing, feel free to add it to your assessment. Likewise, if an impact area doesn't quite fit your lab, it’s okay to leave it out. The impacts you choose to assess should be tailored to your project’s scope — there are no universal KPIs that work for everyone.

When you have your KPI’s it’s time to think about how you will measure them. Below are a few ideas for survey questions to ask your stakeholders or observations you can make about your Living Lab. Here is a table you may find useful to assist you in this exercise:

1. What is your Social Value Proposition?

2. Which are the main Objectives of your project?

ALT TEXT: A blank, color-coded table designed to guide the evaluation of impact areas and key performance indicators (KPIs) for a project. The table has 6 columns and 5 rows.

Columns:

1. SUGGESTED RECHARGE IMPACT AREAS
   (with a note: "think of your own ones, they can differ from these")

2. WHAT are the activities to be assessed in relation to each objective?

3. HOW will you measure the performance of each of these activities?

4. WHAT are the Key Performance Indicators for each of the activities?

5. HOW will you collect the data you need for the evaluation?

6. WHEN in the process will you collect these data?

Rows:

1. SOCIAL (pink border around cells)
   All corresponding cells in the row are empty.

2. ENVIRONMENTAL (yellow border around cells)
   All corresponding cells in the row are empty.

3. ORGANISATIONAL (green border around cells)
   All corresponding cells in the row are empty.

4. ECONOMIC (blue border around cells)
   All corresponding cells in the row are empty.