B. Scheduled pilots As all the remote lab setups across the partnership deal with different subjects, the piloting and evaluation of each may differ. The piloting will for the most part follow the same general style in that participants will evaluate the process while perhaps inadvertently assessing the infrastructure or particular technologies, but each partner will certainly require an individual focus on subject specific issues. Many of the RIPLECS project partners for instance have used the participatory design approach, a popular method in software design, when developing their individual remote labs. This method involves the use of stakeholders in the design process and is cyclical requiring evaluation, analysis and re-design or re-development.