Connecting academia, industry and society to test and scale innovation STAMINA HUB The First Albanian Living Lab and Sandbox Partner with us Digital health, active living, smart agriculture, sustainable food systems Health, Food & Active Lifestyle Innovating Health. Empowering Life Join the Innovation Sandbox AI, GovTech, Industry 4.0, smart mobility, digital infrastructure Digital & Smart Systems Transformation Designing the Digital Future Test & Scale Digital Solutions Decarbonization, ESG, circular industry, smart tourism Green Transition, Industry & Smart Territories Greener Growth. Smarter Territories Accelerate Green Innovation Startups, incubation, acceleration, commercialization, future skills Entrepreneurship, Skills & Social Innovation From Talent to Global Impact Scale Skills & Startups

STAMINA Healthy Lifestyle - Smart Living - Working

The First Albanian Living Lab and Sandbox – Powered by Barleti Group aligned with S3 strategy

STAMINA HUB

A regional platform transforming healthcare, wellbeing, and smart environments through responsible ecosystems, competitive clusters, digital innovation, real-life experimentation, and cross-sector collaboration.

  • Ecosystem building and clustering empower SMEs, startups, research units, and facilitators to co-innovate, scale solutions, and strengthen regional competitiveness.

STAMINA Living Lab

Albania’s first Living Lab integrated Smart Specialization implementation, accelerating transformation in Health, Green Transition, and Digital Innovation through:

  • Co-creating and piloting new services, technologies, and solutions in real-life community environments.
  • Engaging citizens, SMEs, academia, and public authorities to generate impactful, user-driven innovations.

STAMINA Sandbox

Albania’s first Sandbox integrated controlled validation testbed, complementing the Living Lab by:

  • Testing and validating new products, services, and technologies in safe, monitored environments prior to public adoption.
  • Enabling risk-managed innovation scaling, regulatory compliance, and investment readiness.

PARTNERS AND NETWORKS

INNOVATION IN REAL-LIFE ENVIRONMENTS

LIVING LAB

Co-creating and testing solutions in real life.

The Living Lab is a cross-sector Smart Specialization platform that accelerates innovation in Health, Green Transition, and Digital Transformation through real-world experimentation and Quadruple Helix collaboration.

Why LIVING LAB?

Because innovation is most effective when it is tested where life actually happens.

The LIVING LAB ensures that solutions are inclusive, evidence-based, community-validated, and ready for scaling, strengthening regional Smart Specialization strategies and long-term resilience.

Ready to scale?

DO YOU WANT TO WORK WITH US?

TESTING INNOVATION BEFORE DEPLOYMENT

SANDBOX

A secure environment to test, validate, and refine solutions before real-world launch.

The Sandbox is a testbed ecosystem for Stamina Hub integrated with the Living Lab and built on the 5 Pillars Model, enabling innovators to experiment in a controlled, monitored, and compliant setting.

Purpose:

To support startups, institutions, and enterprises in testing and validating products and services before full-scale deployment.

Why SANDBOX?

Because innovation should be tested before it is trusted.

We help you: Reduce risk / Validate impact / Ensure compliance / Accelerate market readiness

SECTORS OF ACTIVITIES

Cross-sector Smart Specialization (S3) implementation platform that operationalizes priority domains in:

  • HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
  • SMART LIVING & WORKING
  • S3 – SMART SPECIALIZATION
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HEALTH & ACTIVE LIFESTYLE

  • Primary & community healthcare
  • Digital health, AI & telemedicine
  • Occupational health & prevention
  • Sport, fitness & active living

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SUSTAINABLE FOOD & NUTRITION

  • Sustainable food ecosystems
  • Agri-health innovation
  • Functional & preventive food
  • Personalized nutrition

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SOCIAL INNOVATION & WELLBEING

  • Preventive health systems
  • Workplace wellbeing
  • Active citizenship
  • Inclusive & migrant healthcare

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SMART CITIES & ENVIRONMENTS

  • Smart buildings & urban systems
  • Sustainable mobility
  • Green infrastructure
  • Environmental monitoring

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GREEN TRANSITION & RESILIENCE

  • Energy & smart utilities
  • Climate adaptation
  • Circular economy systems
  • Sustainable logistics & supply chains

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TOURISM & MOBILITY

  • Medical & wellbeing tourism
  • Sustainable destinations
  • Cultural & eco-tourism
  • Cross-border mobility

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DIGITAL INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

  • AI & advanced analytics
  • HealthTech, GreenTech & UrbanTech
  • Data platforms & interoperability
  • Cybersecurity & SME digitalization

CROSS-SECTORAL - S3 ENABLERS

Digital Transformation

  •  AI, IoT, Blockchain
  • Interoperability platforms
  • Digital twins
  • Data governance systems

Entrepreneurship & SME Scaling

  • Startup incubation
  • Health-tech & smart city acceleration
  • Investment readiness
  • Innovation financing alignment

Skills & Human Capital

  •  Digital & green skills
  • Health workforce training
  • University–industry collaboration
  • Cross-border mobility

PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES

Advancing inclusive, digital, and sustainable healthcare systems through innovation and collaboration.

OUR FOUNDERS

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