This project is the result of a partnership between IADE - Universidade Europeia and the Universidade de Aveiro. It aims to leverage the use of game approaches in education, particularly in the teaching of entrepreneurship and innovation, which is becoming increasingly significant. Research about the best practices that allow the most appropriate tools to be used to develop skills will lead to the development of a toolkit that can better support educators and practitioners in their entrepreneurship teaching efforts.

May 2022 - June 2023

This project aims to design the user’s journey macro experience as well as the contact points micro experiences in regard to maternity care, considering all the surroundings, people, places, objects, rules, relationships, and blocks, offering more humane care. The researchers involved seek to leverage women's health care to another dimension, with the expectation that it will have a positive impact on the experience of users (pregnant women, babies, and families) during pregnancy and childbirth, and on health care professionals. To this end, the project will adopt participatory design practices, involving pregnant women and other stakeholders in the process from the initial stages to the solution.

May 2022 - June 2023

SDI.Lab held a working session with companies to promote the sharing of experiences in digital transition processes. This session, conducted in an online format with three short presentations, followed by a discussion limited to three working groups of five participants, allowing for a more agile and organized way to explore themes of common interest and systematize knowledge for later application in projects of this scope. Following this session, SDI.lab enriched the understanding of digital transition with the practitioner's point of view build on scientific studies.

April 2021

This project aimed to find new solutions to support the recovery of local businesses during and after COVID-19, through the application of Strategic Design methodologies and tools. To support local and small businesses (e.g. restaurants, cultural events and gyms, among others) more vulnerable and exposed to this current situation, Strategic Design and Innovation Lab (SDI.Lab) launched an innovation project aiming to develop viable solutions for the immediate future of these businesses. This was a rapid response from Academia that gathered significant support from students, innovation & design professionals and small business owners (over one hundred people) to create solutions, within the shortest possible time. The main goal of this pro-bono project was to create concepts of new products, services and business models that can be offered to small businesses to support their ability to recover and respond to the uncertainties of the post- covid19 economic reality.

April-July 2020

SDI.Lab developed the methodology and supported the IADE OnBoard project team that created gamified solutions (e.g. new products, services, and business models) in urbanism, mobility, culture, and leisure for Lisbon Municipality. All the gamified solutions addressed Lisbon's critical challenges of reactivating the city's economy, promoting sustainability and mobility, and controlling the pandemic.

May-June 2020