The range of participants was wide, to the particular satisfaction of MoRe-Lab’s director, associate professor Steven Schmidt.
‟MoRe-Lab is open to everyone, including non-academic partners, because our ambition is to solve complex scientific issues and challenges which mostly require collaboration between several academic disciplines, as well as other parties outside academia”, Schmidt explained. He continued:
‟We are therefore very happy about the diversity among participants that include representatives from five of LU’s faculties, LU Innovation, Malmö University, Region Skåne, various funding bodies, industry and the City of Lund.”
There are already plans for several follow-up meetings with some of the participants in the inauguration to further develop ideas into new projects.
‟Considering the high attendance of potential new users at the inauguration, we are convinced that MoRe-Lab will constitute a strong infrastructure for interdisciplinary research in experimental health sciences over the next few years”, said Steven Schmidt.
Erik Renström, vice-chancellor of Lund University, agrees with him.
‟The future will bring even more individualised technical products that, if well-designed, can enrich people’s lives. In this field, universities, the public sector and private business need to increase their levels of expertise in collaboration, so as to make the right investments. MoRe-Lab offers excellent conditions for this.”
Three integrated platforms
MoRe-Lab includes three integrated platforms. The movement platform contains equipment for movement analysis and assessment of muscle strength, power and activation. The reality platform consists of a two-room apartment equipped and furnished to simulate a real living environment. And the mobile platform includes portable versions of the equipment from the two first platforms, among other things.