Open Living Labs – The European Network of Living Labs

GNSS Living Lab Prize: a 10.000 euro opportunity!

2010-03-08T07:01:50-08:00

The GNSS Living Lab Prize (supported by the GNSS Supervisory Authority through the GAINS project) has been launched during the Galileo Application Days 2010 event, held in Brussels on 3-5 March 2010.

The GNSS Living Lab Prize calls for developers and users, engineers of research institutes, and development departments but also from new ventures, to submit proposals for GNSS-related products and services ready to be tested and ideally implemented in suitable Living Labs.Submissions of the ideas to the prize shall focus on the following themes: health, energy and media.

Each theme will produce a winner, whose owner will be awarded with 10.000 EUR.

As part of the prize, the winning ideas will undergo to an experimentation in those Living Labs, who will demonstrate to offer the best testing infrastructure, the most suitable users communities and the most attractive implementation and exploitation potential.The opportunity for Living Labs is that both financial and consulting support will be available for selected Living Labs to facilitate and support the implementation of winning ideas in Living Labs context. The timetable for the GNNS Living Lab Prize is as follows:

3-5 March 2010: Official launch of the European Satellite Navigation Competition;
1st May to 31st July 2010: Ideas submission;
1st August to 30 September 2010: Ideas evaluation;
3rd week of October 2010 (TBC): Award ceremony in Munich;
1st December 2010 to 31st January 2011: Submission of proposal from Living Labs, for adopting and implementing the winning ideas;
1st of April 2011 (TBC): Start of the trials in the selected Living Labs.

Take this opportunity! Visit www.galileo-masters.eu and discover how to participate.

Additional information can be also found at www.gsa.europa.eu.

Welcoming Commission’s MEUR 300 investment on Future Internet, the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) offers its unique capacity to be the European entry point for user involvement in Future Internet experiments

2009-11-10T09:08:17-08:00

On October 28, 2009 the European Commission published a Communication on the Future Internet addressing the ambition to develop world-leading internet-powered infrastructures for domains such as healthcare, energy and traffic management. To meet this challenge, a budget of €300 million additional EC funding is allocated for the coming three years in the form of Future Internet Public-Private-Partnerships (FI PPP).

The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) welcomes the Commission’s initiative for the concrete implementation of Future Internet technologies in cities, regions and countries. ENoLL stresses that the Commission’s objective of “smart infrastructures” that bring economic and social benefits to all citizens is not likely to be reached through an exclusively technology-driven process. This is why living labs, that enable open and user-driven experiments and tests, are the necessary complement to technical testbeds for Future Internet technologies.

Living labs are open platforms to involve user communities as contributors of innovations. They provide real-life user testing facilities offered by local Public-Private-Partnerships. ENoLL currently coordinates 129 benchmarked European living labs, and has recently opened a call for new applicants. Together, the ENoLL members support the "Innovation Lifecycle" for all actors in the system: end-users, SME´s, corporations, public sector and academia (http://www.openlivinglabs.eu).

To help making the Commission’s initiative into a success, ENoLL commits to provide the European entry point for user involvement in Future Internet experiments. Starting today, every interested party can contact the new ENoLL entry point future.internet@enoll.org. This will provide direct access to the 129 members’ competencies related to the Future Internet. ENoLL is also establishing domain-specific networks of Living Labs, in conjunction with the European Apollon project (www.apollon-pilot.eu). These networks (in domains such as healthcare and energy efficiency) will allow innovators, and especially SMEs, to perform user tests of Future Internet systems and services on a European scale. With all of this, ENoLL hopes to mobilise the entire living lab community and to avoid any fragmentation of efforts.

Further info

The Commission press release related to its Communication on Future Internet can be consulted at http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1596&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is a community of Living Labs with a sustainable strategy for enhancing systemic innovation. ENoLL aims to support co-creative, human-centric and user-driven research, development and innovation in order to better cater the human needs. ENoLL is a business- citizens-government partnership contributing to the creation of a new European Innovation System. It was established by the EU coordination action project CoreLabs and the network was launched in November 2006 under the Finnish EU Presidency. The network has grown in “waves” up to 129 member Living Labs. Currently, the 4th Call for new ENoLL members is open for applicants to enter the network in the spring 2010. See for more information http://www.openlivinglabs.eu

To contact ENoLL, please call Prof Dr Pieter Ballon (acting Secretary of ENoLL), mobile phone +32-473538527, or e-mail to future.internet@enoll.org

"Trophées de l’Innovation Territoriale 2009" at RuraliTIC 2009 (26-27 August 2009, Aurillac, FR)

2009-06-22T04:48:48-07:00

The Fourth Edition of the RuraliTIC Forum is co-organized by the Auvergne Regional Council (France) and other French insititutions with a strong orientation to innovation in rural contexts and ICT territorial projects.

RuraliTIC 2009 takes place in Aurillac, FR (Palais des Congrès les Carmes) from Wednesday 26th to Thursday 27th August and features a rich programme with 2 Plenary Strategic Meetings, 4 Thematic Discussion Panels and 13 Workshops.

Living Labs and user-centric open innovation paradigms are strongly connected to the Forum objectives: ENoLL members are invited to participate to the "Trophées de l’Innovation Territoriale 2009" (Trophies for the Territorial Innovation - 2009). Detailed participation information are available at the RuraliTIC 2009 website:

Appel à communication PDF

Note de présentation PDF

Candidature PPT

Various themes have been defined as key themes by the RuraliTIC Forum organization and by the Trophy Jury, chaired by Jean-Pierre Euzen (European Commission, DG INFSO): they range from the Digital Connections of communities with citizens and with the main players of the Health domain and of the socio-economic system to e-Democracy on local and territorial basis.

The Trophies will be awarded during the gala evening on Wednesday 26th August at the Castle of Vixouze.

click here for the registration at the Fourth Edition of the RuraliTIC Forum

The BDI2009 Organising Committee awaits to see you in Finland next June!

2009-02-04T11:02:22-08:00

[NEW] "Beyond the Dawn of Innovation" www.laureap2p.fi/bdi brings together future-minded practitioners and academics to co-create knowledge on innovations, innovativiness, and inventions in the spririt of creativity. BDI Conference will be held from 15^th to 17^th of June 2009.

This BDI Conference contains competitive paper presentations, inspiring keynote sessions together with luncheon speeches, interactive panel discussion, and conference tutorial.

Furthermore, special session proposals are welcomed. BDI2009 brings together the great minds of academics, business leaders, and other professionals from both private and public sectors to share and co-create knowledge on innovation-related topics.

Please submit your competitive paper manuscript at your earliest convenience before 30 March 2009 to bdi.papers@laurea.fi

The following distinguished Keynote Speakers have been confirmed: Professor Alan Barrell, Entrepreneur in residence of Cambridge University and Professor Dhrubes Biswas from the Indian Institute of Technology. Members of the BDI2009 Programme Committee include for example Senator Pierre Laffitte, Sophia Antipolis Fondation as Industry Practise Track Chair, Professor David C. Mowery, University of California Berkeley as Technical Track Chair, Professor Ursula Huws, London Metropolitan University as Best Practises and Applications Track Chair, and Professor Ainin Sulaiman, University of Malaya as Research Track Chair.Professor Patrick Wang from Northeastern University facilitates Conference Tutorial. The interactive panel discussion is moderated by CEO Jan-Henrik Johansson, WikiVision. Development Director Jukka Ahtikari from Logica appears as an invited Luncheon Speaker.

Besides sending in your own competitive paper and/or special session proposal, we would like to offer you an opportunity to attend the Conference as a Discussant. You may let us know your availability either via email bdi@laurea.fi or when registering for the Conference.

The BDI2009 Organising Committee awaits to see you in Finland next June!

E-mail: bdi@laurea.fi

URL: www.laureap2p.fi/bdi