LaborLab is a project aimed at encouraging innovation in employment strategies. To this end, LaborLab proposes a shift in concept. In the 21^st century – and in the knowledge economy – it is not about finding work, but about creating it.

LaborLab does not help people find work or be more efficient in their job search. Instead, it helps them develop the drive, idea and initiative needed to create their own work, the tools they require, and the end result.

LaborLab is about encouraging efforts to embark on for-profit projects. It is about inventing new jobs, new work spaces, new professional profiles, new ways of working and of designing and presenting the curriculum vitae of cultural capital that knowledge-based workers have.

Under the LaborLab model no one needs to wait for someone to give them a job. Everyone who participates learns how to share abilities and knowledge and how to create original and appealing projects.

One of the tools that the LaborLab model at Citilab-Cornellà uses to create innovative employment strategies is the work-centred LivingLab. A space for research and exploration, this lab focuses on identifying new professions and designing new jobs and tools.

The LaborLabs facilitate communication and interaction between people with different interests, who learn how to create jobs by working. LaborLab fosters a culture based on initiative and personal effort. The thinking at LaborLab is that in times of crisis, it might be easier to create a job than to find one.

You can visit Laborlab's blog (http://www.citilabpro.eu/laborlab/) or get in contact with the team through their e-mail address: laborlab@citilab.eu.