ULALABS creates collaborative spaces where various stakeholders, such as researchers, community members, industry representatives, and local governments come together to address urban challenges. Their focus areas are fighting against climate change, promoting interconnected higher education systems, and supporting innovation and entrepreneurial skills of students.

ULALABS aims at creating a network of living labs and urban experimentation spaces such as testbeds, citylabs, and fablabs, and seeing how they fit together in various stages of ideation, experimentation, and specialisation.