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Sitra Lab is about experimentation and the development of practical solutions to achieving societal changes.

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Sitra Lab: Unleashing the power of digital participation

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These ideas for Web 3.0 experiments caught our attention: virtual culture, sports and sustainable food consumption

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Experiment the opportunities of Web 3.0 – our call for funding is now open

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Study – Constructive interaction a key factor in remote teams seeking solutions to societal problems

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Towards solving wicked problems – broad understanding of the problem and shared direction in multidisciplinary teams

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Today 2030 – Groundbreaking policy changed the game for educational immigrants

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Lab log #27: How are innovation portfolios applied in Finland and around the world?

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Radical uncertainty requires radical collaboration

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Do you want to influence society? Five tips for a changemaker

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Wicked problems require radical collaboration – five principles for developers

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Who are the Finnish changemakers? Take a look at the Finnish changemaker map

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Can you learn to be a changemaker?

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The impact of challenge prize Ratkaisu 100 three years on

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Evaluation: Ratkaisu 100 teams benefitted significantly from the challenge prize

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Sitra Lab training programme will address the bottlenecks to democracy – apply now!

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Instructions for applying for the Sitra Lab 3 training programme

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HERÄÄMÖ x Waves: Enabling change through narrative foresight

Thursday, Aug 25
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HERÄÄMÖ: Inner Development Goals: Personal, inner development as a driver of social change

Tuesday, Jan 25
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Work in Progress

Monday – Thursday, Nov 08 – Nov 11
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HERÄÄMÖ: Leading in complexity – together towards systemic change

Thursday, Sep 02
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HERÄÄMÖ: Ethics, empathy and evidence at the heart of social design

Tuesday, May 18
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How can we fund systems changing social innovations in Finland?

Wednesday, Apr 14
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HERÄÄMÖ: How to become a changemaker?

Tuesday, Mar 02
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HERÄÄMÖ: Solving problems in space and society

Thursday, Jan 21
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Heräämö: Overcoming the barriers of sustainable development

Wednesday, Nov 11
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HERÄÄMÖ goes Nordic CityMaking Week: Mission-Driven City Development

Tuesday, Sep 15
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HERÄÄMÖ: Transforming Society Through Behavioural Change

Wednesday, Mar 25
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Workshop

HERÄÄMÖ: Orchestrating Ecosystems for Systems Change

Helsinki, Wednesday, Jan 29
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Workshop: Innovation portfolio sensemaking and management

Helsinki, Monday – Tuesday, Jan 27 – Jan 28
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HERÄÄMÖ XL: Societal Innovations and Global Challenges

Helsinki, Thursday, Nov 21
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HERÄÄMÖ: Systems change work in an organization and practice

Helsinki, Thursday, Oct 24
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Labinar: From Community Space to Systems Change

Wednesday, May 29

What is it about?

Sitra Lab is a programme that brings together people who bring about societal changes and helps them in carrying out effective experiments.

In the programme, participants learn together from practical experiments. The experiments are concrete in nature and they are carried out in everyday operating environments.

Two to four programmes are launched annually, with a duration of three to eight months. The topics of the programmes are based on Sitra’s strategy.

The experiments of Sitra Lab’s participants are supported by globally leading expertise and good practices. While working on a societal challenge, the participants will learn from each other’s experiments and competencies. This is a great way to strengthen the participants’ ability for making changes.

Starting, implementing and disseminating changes is supported by networks assembled around the experiments. The impact of the experiments is assessed and the lessons learned are shared for wider use.

The solutions created in Sitra Lab are shared for the use of the Finnish society.

Who can participate?

The participants in Sitra Lab programmes are chosen through an open call. The selection criteria and possibility of pilot funding are considered on a case-by-case basis for each programme.

As a rule of thumb, teams are preferred. The selection focuses on multidisciplinary and extensive competence, diversity and the capacity to carry out impactful experiments within the participant’s own operating environment.

How do we work?

In Sitra Lab, Finnish societal organisations come together to share insights, learn and innovate together. Sitra Lab is multidisciplinary – it challenges established practices and fosters trust between different parties by enabling experiments that connect various sectors and operating environments.

The impact of Sitra Lab programmes are assessed in three different ways. Namely, how:

The impact of Sitra Lab’s programmes and experiments is assessed using various methods both during and after the programmes. The assessment specialists provide constructive feedback during the programme and carry out a post-assessment six months after the programme has ended.

Open Lab

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Sitra Lab applies globally leading research and good practices in its programmes. Open Lab is a way of presenting the lessons learned and benefits to a wider audience in the form of interesting lectures.

Open Lab continues to grow and evolve during 2023.

To find out more about the current programme offering, please see the following expert interviews published on Sitra’s YouTube channel.

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Previous Sitra Labs

A peek into previous Sitra Lab programme seasons.

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Sitra Lab 3: Bottlenecks to democracy

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Sitra Lab 2: Solutions from nature

Contact us

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Jonna Heliskoski
Senior Lead, Sitra
Jaakko Porokuokka
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Jaakko Porokuokka
Specialist, Sitra
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Anna-Leena Mansikkala
Project Assistant
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Lisbeth Strömberg
Project Coordinator, Sitra
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Kirsi Hanhisalo
Senior Lead, Sitra

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