Mieke Nieuwdorp is coordinator of the Care Living Lab InnovAge. This is an interdisciplinary network of experts where every partner contributes his expertise. She graduated as commercial engineer at KU Leuven. After some experience in the private sector she worked several years as project manager and supervisor of the “lifetime learning service” at KU Leuven where she started multidisciplinary collaborations and educations. As coordinator of LUMOS she was responsible for the university medical development cooperation. For this, people from UZ Leuven, KULeuven and UCLL volunteer to commit themselves to projects in Africa. In 2015, after years of expertise in connecting people across sectors, she founded Engage4 which stimulates cooperation between companies and non-profits, through skills based volunteering projects where social engagement, formation and innovative thinking are combined.

Katleen Boschmans graduated as a master in commercial sciences at Vlekho Brussels. For her thesis she studied the efficiency of E-health in Belgium. The start of her passion for innovation and the health sector was set. She worked at Manpower as a recruiter and as an HR consultant for Arcelor Mittal and BASF. In 2009 she joined UNIZO as a project assistant for guidance of jobseekers who want to start their own business. In that period she followed part of the nursing course at the Catholic College Leuven and a training in health promotion at the Flemish Institute for Healthy Living. After completing the ESF project at UNIZO, she sought a job close to all her interests: innovation, entrepreneurs, project work, IT and of course health care. This, she found at iMinds (integrated in imec in 2016) as a project coordinator for health care innovation (Zorg Proeftuinen Vlaanderen).

Since March 2017 Katleen has been working half-time for the Leuven Care Experiment Garden InnovAge, where she manages the entrepreneurial trajectories of the Crosscare program.