TRANS-lighthouses Glossary

LKL: Living Knowledge Labs

The LKL in TRANS-lighthouses is a collaborative engine for knowledge exchange, collective intelligence, and innovation across the project's eight pilot sites. It functions both as a digital platform and a conceptual space; a dynamic meeting ground where local insights, scientific expertise, and policy discussions intersect.

Over the past months, the LKL has begun to host a growing ecosystem of tools, reflections, and co-created outputs. From governance typologies and participatory tools maps to pilot-specific co-governance roadmaps, the LKL is steadily evolving into a central repository for applied knowledge generated through real-world experimentation. It allows project partners, stakeholders, and external audiences to access actionable content that supports learning, reflection, and adaptation.

Importantly, the LKL is not a static knowledge database. Its value lies in its “living” nature, shaped by ongoing contributions from the field and animated by interactions between diverse actors. It encourages experimentation and iteration, and supports the co-production of knowledge in a way that aligns with the participatory ethos of the project.

In the coming months, the LKL will continue to grow integrating policy briefs, deliverables, community feedback, and pilot monitoring outputs. It will also play a central role in preparing the ground for policy engagement and the scaling of successful models. As TRANS-lighthouses deepens its focus on systems transformation, the LKL offers a transparent, inclusive, and open-access mechanism to ensure that the knowledge generated not only circulates but also inspires action far beyond the pilots themselves.