On Tuesday, March 10th, 2026, a co-creation session was held as part of the development of the Living Lab Blueprint for the ESCH-R project. The session focused on visuals and practical questions: how do you set up Medical Circular Living Labs in the healthcare sector across two hospitals? What steps and considerations are important to create a successful circular ecosystem where hospital staff, researchers, industry partners, and patients collaborate?

The session included contributions from ESCH-R PhD candidates Jan (Chang) Lung Tsai and Jasper Klasen, ESCH-R postdoc Ayşegül Özçelik, and WP5 members Johan Reijenga, Peter Joore, Marcel Crul, JC Diehl and Jotte de Koning.

The Living Lab guide supports this process. A Medical Circular Living Lab (MCLL) is a real-life research and innovation ecosystem embedded in a hospital, where circular interventions for medical consumables are co-created and tested. The guide provides a step-by-step framework for setting up and operating such labs, based on lessons learned from the ESCH-R project.

Through these sessions, project partners aim to learn from practical experiences and further refine the guide so that future MCLLs in other hospitals can be set up effectively and sustainably.