Hans Lodders holds a Master’s degree in Media and Innovation and has over 25 years of experience as a consultant, project and programme manager. His work focuses on the development of new services, platforms, and organisations at the intersection of innovation, sustainability, education and collaboration. He is specialised in setting up and facilitating broad multi-stakeholder partnerships across public, private, academic, and civil society actors, such as Living Labs.
Hans is currently also a social entrepreneur and co-founder of QXote in 2021, a quintuple helix Living Lab in the rural south of Portugal, that brings together education, research, business, government, and local communities to support sustainable regional development through learning, experimentation, and co-creation.

Agriculture
Education sciences
Information sciences and communication
Management sciences

We are looking to join a project, where we can bring two potential added values:
1) we have an operational Living of 9 hectares in the rural south of Portugal. A place for learning and experimentation for climate resiliency. Projects can be technical, innovative, ecological or social. We embrace whole systems approaches, which means we can support multi.disciplinary projects on our land.
2) we have extensive experience and knowledge in building multi-stakeholder collaborations such as Living Labs, and we also have the knowledge and experience in co-creating functioning business models.

innovation, multi-stakeholder collaboration, climate resilience, business models

Open Living Lab days in Brussels and Antwerp, in October 2026