While the initial phase was marked by developing and creating an internal structure, by September 2019, we began drafting concrete ideas as to how to best use the OIC Forum to hold events, get-togethers, symposia, and conferences, as well as game nights and sofa concerts; in other words, events that would support networking and communication. The over 330 different events at the LIT OIC - some held online during the lockdown - also include the following formats:

• LIT Breakfast Briefings
• LIT Lectures
• Digi Tea(m) Time at the  LIT Factory
• Community Mornings and After-Work Get-Togethers

The LIT Factory

Located adjancent to the Open Space, the LIT Factory, opens an external URL in a new window, serves as a cross-institutional hub to support research & development. The Factory is home to, for example, the CHASE, opens an external URL in a new window Competence Center, an interdisciplinary research center bringing 14 research institutions and 20 companies together to conduct joint research on how to improve sustainable industrial processes along the entire value chain.

The Co-Innovation Lab

Over the years, there have been many successful collaboration efforts at the OIC, the most recent being the creation of the Co-Innovation Lab, opens an external URL in a new window together with Dynatrace, opens an external URL in a new window. Scientists at the LIT Cyber-Physical Systems Labs work together with company employees to address research questions in the areas of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and data science.

The Christian Doppler Labor VaSiCS

The Christian Doppler Lab VaSiCS (Mastering Variability in Software-Intensive Cyber-Physical Production Systems) is now located at the LIT Open Innovation Center. Together with business partner Primetals Technologies, the LIT Cyber-Physical Systems Lab was awarded a Christian Doppler Laboratory grant endowed with € 2.37 million. The lab will run to 2028.

Now located at the LIT Open Innovation Center, "Ideation Space" - supported by the JKU Entrepreneur.Base , opens an external URL in a new window - serves as a creative workshop area, thus anchoring the field of entrepreneurship at the OIC. The open space is available to not only develop creative ideas, consult with others, network, and build an entrepreneurial community, but also to hold workshops and meetings. In addition to JKU student start-up companies such as qapture , opens an external URL in a new windowand hoss mobility, opens an external URL in a new window, spin-off companies, such as datavisyn , opens an external URL in a new windowand Sendance, opens an external URL in a new window, and externally created companies, such as Forpet, have discovered that the OIC provides a unique environment capable of boostering and fostering their respective visions and company objectives.

The new Open Innovation in Science Lab, opens an external URL in a new window supports transdisciplinary collaboration by enabling experimentation focused on open innovative methods in science. Discourse focuses on the population and its needs, particularly in lieu of technological future trends. In order to shape a future and the socially corresponding innovations that we want, we need input and various perspectives by those who have different backgrounds and disciplines.

The renowned Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG), opens an external URL in a new window is a strategic partner and the OIC provides the perfect breeding ground to support a growing network.