enoll activity report

Activity Report

2013

Time to Look Back at the

ENoLL Activities throughout

the year 2013

Content

2 Word from the President

3 2013 Year in review

4 Highlights 2013

6 Living Labs & Research

6 Collaboration

7 Projects

8 Concluded projects

9 Policy

10 Publications

11 Key events in 2013

14 Highlights from ENoLL members

16 2014: Whats up?

2 ENoLL Activity Report 2013

Word from the President

Fellow ENoLL members, friends and supporters,

As you may know 2013 has represented for us all a crucial year. With over 330 Living Labs today our network is increasingly recognized as a worldwide community with members coming from the 6 continents. One third of the 25 new members accepted during the 7th wave come from non-European countries.

Notwithstanding this, an 8th wave has been already launched and new members will be introduced during the 2014 ENoLL Summer School. Our organization is showing a worldwide capacity to adapt to different localities and cultures while providing strategic support to its members.

Apart from increasing his presence in key countries all over the world ENoLL made important agreements that position us well for future growth. The strategic alliance with the World Bank for instance is running on and the preparation of the ENoLL-World Bank toolkit for cities was successfully announced during several international events (CitiSense, World Summit for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Smart City Expo) and it will be published during 2014. New opportunities will also be guaranteed by Horizon 2020: the European Framework Programme covers thoroughly the user and citizen driven approach and different H2020 areas will offer funding for projects coping with open innovation and user-centered innovation.

Looking back at this busy and productive year we can confidently say that we have been moving in the right direction: building a stronger, more open and worldwide network of Living Labs. The challenges ahead are many and the ENoLL Executive board is working to define the right steps to build a sustainable community able to embrace, cooperate and co-exist with other Living Lab and similar innovation initiatives at regional, national, European and International scale. The activation of the strongest and most advanced Living Labs in Europe in joining these conversations is crucial now.

I would like to sincerely thank all our members as well as the ENoLL Secretariat and Office for their support and generous contribution. Its now time to peruse the ENoLL Activity Report, which offers an overview of last years network activities and achievements. I also encourage you to browse through our website to learn more about further news and initiatives.

Jarmo Elukka Eskelinen

Chair of the European Network of Living Labs


How to Join Us

2013 Year in Review

The European Network of Living Labs

(ENoLL) is the international, non-profit

association of benchmarked Living Labs

in Europe and beyond, founded in

November 2006 by 19 Living Labs, today

grown to an extensive network of 330

accredited Living Lab members.

2013 was a special year for ENoLL for many reasons. The network has grown both in terms of new members and global reach. During the 4th Living Lab Summer School in Manchester (August 2013) ENoLL welcomed 25 new network members in its 7th Wave. This growth shows a continuing reinforcement of ENoLL both in Europe and throughout the world. ENoLL also elected its new leadership board at the annual General Assembly on August 27th, 2013.

During the year ENoLL has taken part in a number of EU-funded initiatives, all of strategic importance to its members in fields such as smart cities, Future Internet, open innovation, cross-border collaboration, design and creativity. ENoLL and its active members have hosted events and workshops across Europe, and participated in first-rate digital technology events such as ICT 2013 in Vilnius, FIA Dublin, Smart City Expo, Eurocities the Conference and many others.

Once again the ENoLL community came together to hold the yearly main event

on Living Labs, the 4th ENoLL Living Lab Summer School. The four-day-long event gathered more than 150 international experts and enthusiasts to share and gain expertise on a wide set of initiatives related to Living Labs, Future Internet and smart cities.

The enhanced collaboration on Open Innovation with the World Bank has also to be spotlighted. The agreement aims at bringing unprecedented global expertise in the area of ICT to help the World Bank and its clients increase civic participation, advance public administrative capacity and drive green growth.

The results of the ENoLL survey were announced by Piotr Krawczyk during the Research Day of 2013 Summer School. The outcomes gave an insight into Living Lab practices and new tendencies with regard to possible future cross-border R&D matchmaking initiatives across the network.

The Secretariat based in Brussels dealt with multiple projects and activities while guaranteeing efficient and continuous support to the members. During the last year the staff has also welcomed two new employees, Song Song from China and Paolo Aversano from Italy.

All this work would not have been possible without the enthusiastic support of our members. The concept of Living Lab was well promoted on a local, regional and national level thanks to the community members who helped disseminating tools, methodologies and best practices.

ENoLL Governance

Elections for the new ENoLL Council took place at the annual General Assembly of the association held in Manchester (UK) on August 27th, 2013.

ENoLL Council 2013

Chair Jarmo Eskelinen

(Forum Virium)

Treasurer Lauri Tuomias

(Finnish Network Living

Labs)

Secretary Pieter Ballon

(iMinds)

Council members

Alvaro Oliveira (Lightning Living Lab)

Artur Serra (i2Cat Foundation)

Dave Carter (MDDA)

Esteve Almirall (ESADE)

Piotr Krawczyk (JAMK)

Joanne Dobson (Coventry City Lab)

Juan A. Bertoln (eLiving Lab)

Hanna-Greata Puurtinen (TAMK)

Juan F. Delgado (CFR Living Lab)

Jokin Garatea (BIRD Living Lab)

Mark De Colvenaer (Flemish LL)

Tuija Hirvikoski (Laurea Living Labs)

Roberto Santoro (EsoCe-Net)

Ger Baron (Amsterdam Living Lab) *

Marco Combetto (Trentino as Lab) *

Adam Olszewski (Poznan LL) *

Annika Sllstrm (Botnia LL) **

New Council members

* Ger Baron, Marco Combetto and Adam

Olszewski were elected to the Council at

the General Assembly in August, 2012.

** Annika Sllstrm replaced Mikael

Brjeson as Council Member.

The ENoLL Office, Brussels

Ana Garcia

Paolo Aversano

Song Song

The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is a community of Living Labs with a sustainable strategy for enhancing innovation on a systematic basis. The overall objective is to contribute to the creation of a dynamic European innovation system, with a global reach. ENoLL aims to support co-creative, human-centric and user-driven research, development and innovation in order to better cater for peoples needs.


Highlights

The pitching and networking session was opened to all participants of the Summer School with the opportunity to pitch during the networking session.

During the ENoLL Summer School, 13 Workshops were organised to explore the initiatives in relation to smart cities, creativity, open data and reinforcing already established linkages to areas such as e-health, e- education, social innovation and future internet. In combination with the workshops, the ENoLL community organised 6 strategic meetings covering different themes and focused on further exploring the links between living labs and the academic community, SMEs, Regional Innovation Strategies and Smart Specialisation. The unique on-site visits organized on the 3rd and 4th day of this years summer school gave participants a wider insight about models, theories and technologies related to living labs. The participants also gained hands-on experience from leading experts on the subject and got to network with other living lab enthusiasts.

All the reports and materials for the research day are available on the Summer School Website. A selection of videos showing keynote speeches and deepening Living Labs methodologies/best practices is available here

4th ENoLL Summer School

ENoLL, together with the Manchester City Council (MDDA), organized the 4th European ENoLL Living Lab Summer School in August 2013, hosted by the Manchester Metropolitan University. The Summer School was a big success with a diverse mix of more than 150 international participants coming from universities, the private and the public sector to share and gain expertise on a wide set of initiatives related to living labs and smart & creative cities.

The first day of the ENoLL Summer School combined the Living Lab Research Day with the Horizon 2020 Matchmaking and Pitching session. During the Research Day, various topics were covered and grouped in three themes: Living Lab methodologies, concepts and tools; Urban and territorial innovation with Living Lab; and Case studies in Living Lab application domains.

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Highlights

ENoLL New Members 7TH Wave

As of August 30th, the 7th Wave of ENoLL brought twenty-five additional network members. Most of the new 7th wave ENoLL members come from European countries with representation from Cyprus, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain and Switzerland. Over a quarter of the new members are from non-European countries with a strong representation from Canadian Living Labs. Asia, Africa and the Caribbean countries were also represented. The result show a continuing reinforcement of ENoLL both in Europe and throughout the world, setting the stage for a stronger role of the Living Lab movement in the context of EU 2020 Innovation Union and other relevant European Union policies. The Wave process, dating back to 2006, has up to today result in over 340 accredited ENoLL Living Labs.

ENoLL - Re-election of leadership board

ENoLL elected its new leadership board at the annual General Assembly of the association held in Manchester (UK) on August 27th, 2013. Mr. Jarmo Eskelinen was re-elected at his second term as President and Chair of the Council. Prof. Dr. Pieter Ballon, Director of iMinds Living Labs was re-elected as the International Secretary of the Association and Dr.Lauri Tuomias as Treasurer. Three new council members have been elected: Mr. Ger Baron (Amsterdam Living Lab), Mr. Marco Combetto (Trentino as Lab living lab) and Mr. Adam Olszewski (Poznan Living Lab). Finally, BSc. Annika Sllstrm replaces Mikael Brjeson as council member (Botnia Living Lab). More info maybe found here

The Creative Ring at FIA Dublin and ICT 2013

2013 has been an intense year for the SPECIFI project and the Creative Ring. SPECIFI first participated in the Future Internet Assembly 2013 held in Dublin (7-10th May 2013) organizing two different activities: The 1st Creative Ring open session and the Creative Ring demo (Watch the video). The Creative Ring then joined ICT 2013 in Vilnius (October 6-8, 2013) showcasing three different applications: a paper prototype of the forthcoming Belgian CreaCity App, an interactive, annotated video for tourism made in Trento (Italy) and an Internet-assisted music performance (watch the video). ENoLL concretely supported SPECIFI during both events dealing with proposals, communication activities and exploitation of results.

Why Living Lab?

Living Labbing is fun! Living Labs provide communities and enterprises with tools to engage people in the creative design of solutions to the problems that they face.

Living Labs and Smart Cities. The work of Living Labs and emerging smart cities are recognized as having the potential for disruptive societal innovation as larger scale developments are supported and new value creation models are enabled.

Living Labs and Ambient Assisted Living. Living labs are becoming more prominent innovation instruments for addressing societal challenges and improving the quality of life of elderly people.


Living Labs & Research

Living lab on TIM Review

The Technology Innovation Management Review published two issues (November and December 2013) about Living Labs. The guest editors of these two issues are both from the ENoLL community: Seppo Leminen from the Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Effective Member), and Mika Westerlund from Carleton University (Adherent Member). Most of the selected articles are contributed by ENoLL Members: Laurea University of Applied Sciences, iMinds, Lule University of Technology, Carleton University. Read more.

Collaborative Research in the Real World - Review of Living Laboratories

This review was undertaken by Dr Robert Salter of Curtin University (Australia) with Dr Stephen White of CSIRO on behalf of the CRC for Low Carbon Living, as part of the Living Laboratories Framework Project (March 2013). This review included descriptions of a number of Living Labs (particularly European ones) and of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). Information was collected from European Living Labs and ENoLL as well as from academic and web-based literature. Read more.

A Collection of Proceedings from the Research Day Published

ENoLL published a collection of Proceedings from the Summer School Research Day on August 27th, 2013. The Living Lab Research Day was structured in a plenary session & two breakout sessions in the morning and Horizon 2020 matchmaking and pitching session in the afternoon. In total 33 abstracts were received and 19 approved with 6 full papers delivered. Various topics were covered in the accepted papers grouped in three themes: Living Lab methodologies, concepts and tools; Urban and territorial innovation with Living Lab; Case studies in Living Lab application domains. Find the whole proceedings here on Scribd.

Collaboration

Enhanced cooperation between ENoLL and France Living Labs (F2L)

On February 19, 2013 the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) and the France Living Labs (F2L) signed a partnership agreement (MoU). Find here the presentations by Ms. Brigitte Trousse, President of France Living Labs and Mr. Jarmo Eskelinen, President of ENoLL so as to discover the agreed joint initiatives.

Announcement of the Living Lab Toolkit at CitiSense

On November 17 and 18, 2013 Barcelona hosted the CitiSense conference, organized by the World Bank, with the aim to enable cities from all over the world to exchange knowledge and information about smart cities, open innovation, efficient mobility and energy saving. During the CitiSense event the World Bank and ENoLL publically announced the common production of a Living Lab toolkit, which is planned to be published during Summer 2014.

Partnership with European Youth Award (EYA)

ENoLL is a network partner of the European Youth Award! EYA aims to select and promote best practices in e-Content for young people and students under 30. It demonstrates young Europeans potential to create outstanding digital and social projects and serves as a platform for promising talents to stimulate and start social business ventures.

Mr. Jarmo Eskelinen during the 2013 ENoLL Summer School


Projects

The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)'s participations as an association in several EU-funded projects are strategically important for the whole network.

CitySDK is creating a toolkit to enable a more efficient utilization of the expertise and know-how of developer communities to be applied in city development. The toolkit comprises of open and interoperable digital service interfaces as well as processes and usability standards. To collect more info about the project, its news and achievements please visit

the official website. You also find CitySDK on Twitter via @CitySDK

The SPECIFI project aims at demonstrating the positive impacts of a European Creative Ring of Smart Cities and Regions, with real-life Future

Internet (Fiber-totheHome and wireless) infrastructures, with real-life users and producers, and in 5 real (certified) Living Labs active in 3 smart cities and their surrounding regions. Follow the SPECIFI project on Twitter: @SPECIFI_project

MyNeighbourhood aims at creating a new and smarter conception of the Smart City that focuses on people and their well-being rather than

just ICT infrastructures and dashboards. In so doing, MyNeighbourhood uses new technologies and user data to help recreate a lost sense of neighborhood that is rooted in local place, common ties and personal interaction. More information can be found on the projects website. Follow MyNeighbourhood on Twitter: @MyN_EU

Fusepool crosses borders to provide data for better product/ service development

and research. Fusepool enriches data using common standards and tools for analyzing and visualizing data to get timely, context-aware and relevant information. Learn more here

CONCORD is a Coordination Action for

facilitating and supporting the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership programme (FI-PPP). The 5-year project provides structures and processes for collaboration between all FI-PPP projects. Access the website and follow us on Twitter: @FI_PPP

The FIspace project, which is one of the second-phase FI-PPP projects, aims at developing and validating

novel Future-Internet-enabled solutions to address the pressing challenges arising in collaborative business networks, focusing on use cases from the Agri-Food and Transport & Logistics industries. Check out the official website or follow the discussion on Twitter: @FIspace_eu

The overall aim of the ACE project is to deliver targeted cross border services to highly innovative entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs in the ICT sector in order to accelerate their growth. The ACE programme is supported by cross border finance experts and European innovation support networks EBN and ENOLL. Follow

us on Twitter: @EU_ACE

InnoMatNet is a project funded under the NMP (Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies) theme of the EU 7th Framework Programme, with the overall goal of promoting collaboration, knowledge transfer,

and the creation of new alliances between materials researchers, designers in industry, and others involved in innovation. Check out the website and follow the Twitter account @Innomatnet

The Integrating Design for All in Living Labs, or IDeALL, project, which is financed by the Directorate General of Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission, aims to bring together the Living Lab community with the design community through Design for All. Follow the discussion on Twitter:

@User_Centred


Concluded

projects

The EC-Funded European Platform for Intelligent Cities (EPIC) Project is a recently ended project combining innovation ecosystem processes, fully researched and tested e- Government service applications and new cloud computing technologies to create the first truly scalable and flexible pan-European platform for innovative, user-driven public service delivery, along with a user Road Map.

In order to conclude the project, over 2 years of research and experimentation was shared during the 2013 ENoLL Summer School providing attendees with a crash course in how using the EPIC platforms Smart City in a Box can revolutionize the way to create, procure and operate smart city services locally. The EPIC project results had a relevant impact during the

Summer School and two white papers were shared with all Summer School attendees: The roadmap for Smart Cites (EPIC) and the Smart City Service Creation and the Living Lab Approach:Benefits & Challenges. EPIC also announced the launch of the post-EPIC community. To get an insight into the project and its results check also the following video:

To confirm the quality of these results it was said that: "Tirgu Mures has consistently found EPIC services easy-to-use, intuitive and highly practical. Tirgu Mures also found EPIC services very easy to adapt to our citys unique needs, offering us a simple, ready-to-use Smart City solution. In summary, Tirgu Mures would gladly recommend the EPIC solution to any city wishing to take the next step to achieve their Smart city Goals. Dorin Florea (Mayor of Tirgu Mures).

The idea of the SMARTiP project was to take the experience developed by a wide

range of existing user-driven initiatives in Europe, particularly those developed through Living Labs, and to apply this experience to the challenge of transforming public services by empowering smart citizens who are able to use and co-produce innovative Internet-enabled services within emerging smart cities. The aim was concretely to enable to adoption of open platforms for the co-production of citizen-centric Internet-enabled services in five test-bed sites, Manchester, Gent, Cologne, Bologna and Oulu. The objective is to enhance the ability of the cities to sustain a smart city ecosystem that can support new opportunities emerging for a dynamic co-production process resulting in more inclusive and efficient public services, which can then be made replicable for cross-border deployment on a larger scale. As such, a series of pilot projects covering three thematic areas: Smart engagement, Smart environments and Smart mobility.

The objective of PERIPHRIA was to deploy convergent Future Internet (FI) platforms and services for the promotion of sustainable lifestyles in and across emergent networks of smart peripheral cities in Europe. The developed Open Service Convergence Platform, an Internet by and for the People, extends and enhances the Save Energy projects Social Information Architecture,

integrating key new components sensor networks, real time 3D and mobile location-based services with the FI paradigms of Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS) and Internet of People (IoP). Pilot projects in the five PERIPHRIA Partner Cities Malm (SE), Bremen (DE), Athens (GR), Genoa (IT) and Palmela (PT) used Serious Games to stimulate social interaction of people in places, cross-city linking of Arenas and discovery-driven platform convergence. Discover the project results on the website and watching the video.


Policy

It is argued that the Living Labs concept conventionally based on the user driven and open innovation principles has the capacity to boost the current set of tools and methods for innovation policies. During 2013 a number of policy-oriented publications, conferences and Action Plans focused on open innovation and user-centered design were debated and the relevance of Living Lab methods was frequently highlighted. We propose you an outline of the most captivating policy-focused initiatives of the year.

Innovation Union Conference

The Committee of the Regions discussed the regional and local impact of the Innovation Union Flagship Initiative on a conference on 27 November 2013. The event was the seventh in the series covering the Europe 2020 Strategy and focused on four core areas: Smart specialization strategies; Innovation, enterprises and jobs; Networking across borders and Open Innovation 2.0. More information available here

The Digital Agenda for Europe as a platform

The Digital Agenda Assembly (DAA13) offered the opportunity to discuss the themes of the Digital Agenda for Europe review and brought together all the key stakeholders to go through the progress so far and the challenges ahead. Several online actions have been launched: (1) a new community platform to prepare the discussion of each DAA13 workshop, also making use of third party platforms such as Quora, Twitter, LinkedIn and more. Then (2) a large scale gathering exercise of inspiring high-impact initiatives that help achieving the goals of the DAE. Check more information here

Plan I(nnovation) for Europe

The Plan I(nnovation) for Europe: Delivering Innovation-Led, Digitally-Powered Growth sets out a seven-point plan for making Europe one of the leading places in the world to innovate, a region where entrepreneurs, visionaries and optimists could more easily tackle the challenges of the future. It was launched in Brussels in the presence of European Council President Herman Van Rompuy. The Plan is available online

FI-PPP EVENT

EC: Implementing an Action Plan for Design-Driven Innovation

The European Commission published a Staff Working Document "Implementing an Action Plan for Design-Driven Innovation" on 23 September 2013. This document describes current and upcoming actions endorsed by the Commission and relating to promoting design-driven innovation in different policy fields.

European Commission seeks "Capital of Innovation"

The European Commission is in the process of searching for the first European Capital of Innovation, or iCapital. The prize will reward the city that is building the best innovation ecosystem, connecting citizens, public organisations, academia, and business. An independent panel of experts will select the winner in spring 2014, with the city chosen receiving 500.000 towards scaling up its efforts. More information may be found here

(Source: EU Press Release)

The Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan

The Entrepreneurship Action Plan is a blueprint for decisive action to unleash Europe's entrepreneurial potential, to remove existing obstacles and to revolutionize the culture of entrepreneurship in Europe. Investments in changing the public perception of entrepreneurs, in entrepreneurship education and to support groups that are underrepresented among entrepreneurs are indispensable if we want to create enduring change. Read the draft report by the European Commission here


Below you can find relevant publications from ENoLL members and our Living Lab community. This includes original research and project white papers, as well as other relevant and interesting publications of Living Labs:

Handbook of the Living Lab Methodology by Nordic cross-border Living Lab project SmartIES.

Collaborative Research in the Real World- Review of Living Laboratories by the CRC for Low Carbon Living, as part of the Living Laboratories Framework Project involving two ENoLL members Botnia and Wireless Trondheim.

How to set up cross-border Living Labs by Alcotra Innovation strategic project.

Living Lab Manual for Universities of Applied Sciences by Network of Living Labs of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences (Neloskierre).

Living Labs in regional Smart Specialization strategies by GAIA (Bird Living Lab).

CoCo toolkit for adapting co-creation activities by Laurea Living Labs (SID Unit - Service Innovation & Design).

Living Lab Handbook: Race to Scale & People's Voice by CDT-Centre for Distance-spanning Technology and Soacial informatics at Lulea University, Sweden.

Let's talk about Smart Citizens by FutureEverything.

Proceedings 4th ENoLL Summer School - Research day by ENoLL.

Events

Publications

Why Living Labs?

Living Labs empower citizens, as end-users, to influence the development of innovative services & products that eventually will

benefit the whole society.

Living Labs allow industry to develop, validate and integrate new ideas, to partner with other companies and to increase their

chances of success during product and/or service launches.

Living Labs facilitate the integration of technological innovation in society and increase return on investments in ICT.


Key events in

2013

ICT 2013

ICT 2013, the ICT event organized by the European Commission, took place in Vilnius (Lithuania) from the 6th to the 8th of November and gathered more than 4.000 participants. During the four days ENoLL supported the Creative Ring in showcasing three different applications (see highlights section). We then participated in the following project networking sessions:

CitySDK: Shaping Open Innovation for Smart Cities (Nov 6th)

Connected Smart Cities and Future Internet (Nov 7th)

Fi-PPP: SMEs and web-entrepreneurs as drivers for Future Internet Ecosystem (Nov 7th)

FIspace: How Future Internet enables agile Business Collaboration (Nov 8th).

FIA Dublin 2013

ENoLL and the SPECIFI projects participated in the Future Internet Assembly 2013 event, which was held in Dublin (7-10th May 2013). In order to make the Future Internet community aware of the Creative Ring initiative and invite them to participate, two different activities were organized: The 1st Creative Ring open session and the Creative Ring demo. Especially the demo demonstrated the potential of the Creative Ring in the field of performing arts. Watch the video and discover more.

The Fire Forum

The first FIRE Forum, organized with an open workshop and networking event, was held at iMinds in Ghent on October 24, 2013. The Living Lab community was presented by Jarmo Eskelinen, Chair of ENoLL, and Dave Carter from Manchester Digital Development Agency. Presentation and media files can be found here

InnoMatNet Workshop on Materials and Design-driven innovations The workshop was held on the 31st October 2013 in Guimares (Portugal) during the PORTUGAL SB13 Conference. The fifth workshop of InnoMatNet provided the necessary ecosystem for networking and promoting new alliances and collaborations between materials researchers and industrial entrepreneurs.

ENoLL at the Smart Grids, Smart Cities Conference The 3rd Annual Smart Grid Smart Cities Forum 2013 was held on March 20-21st in Nice, France, and brought together experts from both public and private sectors to discuss the future outlook of Smart Cities. Ana Garcia from the ENoLL office was invited to give a presentation on the vision for the future of Smart Cities while introducing some of the European initiatives in which her network has been working on: Future Internet PPP, CitySDK, and SPECIFI European Creative Ring.


Key events in

2013

The Participatory Innovation Conference The Participatory Innovation conference was held in Lahti in Finland on 18-20 June, 2013. This conference brought together researchers, artists, designers and practitioners. The innovative 3-day programme included presentations by leading keynote speakers, research paper sessions, applied theatre, a hands-on innovation session with industry cases, and artistic interpretations of research. More info maybe found here (blog of Tim Tompson, one of the participants).

The ICE & IEEE-ITMC Annual Conference

The ICE & IEEE-ITMC Annual Conference was held in the Hague (Netherlands) on 24-26 June 2013. The motto of the conference was Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Several scientific, experts and practitioner networks met to discuss technology and innovation management topics while presenting papers and participating in workshops.

The 26th annual Bled eConference

The 26th annual Bled eConference was organized from the 9-13 June and featured the theme of eInnovation. It attracted speakers and delegates from business, government and universities. This year four different sessions related to Living Labs were organized giving the possibility to deepen themes such as Living Labs governance and user-driven innovation.

PERIPHRIA Final Conference PERIPHRIA organized the project final conference in Rome from the 29-30 May and saw the participation of the ENoLL office. This conference was organized during the ForumPA 2013 event and was mainly focused in enriching the impact of the project and leveraging the Human Smart City vision to global scale involving in this movement a selection of the main thinkers of Smart Cities and representatives of cities like Lisbon, Barcelona, Milan and Rio de Janeiro.

The XXIV ISPIM Conference

The conference entitled Innovating in Global Markets: Challenges for Sustainable Growth took place in Helsinki, Finland on 16-19 June 2013. This conference brought together 480 innovation experts from 41 countries. In addition to the invited speakers, the conference included 250 academic and practitioner presentations, 46 'hot topic' roundtable sessions, a PhD student lab and visits to innovative Finnish companies such as Rovio Entertainment. (Source: ispim.org)

EPIC final event

During the 4th ENoLL Living Lab Summer School the EPIC final workshop took place (August 28). The discussions focused on EPICs roadmap and practical advice on using the platforms offering Smart City in a Box to create and run smart city services. The main attraction of the workshop was the interactive presentation, which used Manchester itself as an example of EPICs Smart Environment Service.


The Living Labs model benefits citizens, industry and research

- Living Labs empower citizens as end-users to influence the development of innovative services & products that will benefit the whole society. - Living Labs allow industry to develop and validate

new ideas and to increase their chances of success during product and service launches.

Key events in

2013

Skills and Post-Secondary Summit 2013: Developing the Talent We Need for a Competitive Nation (6-7.11.2013). Presentations: Global Best in Post-Secondary Education: How the Worlds Top-Ranked Countries are Making Post-Secondary Education a Priority and Succeeding as a Result; Concurrent Dialogue Sessions: Series AExploring International Best Practices, Toronto, Canada Open Info Day - Horizon 2020 'Health, demographic change and wellbeing' first funding round, Brussels, Belgium, 22.11.2013 Setting the Scene for Learning Regional Living Labs presentations and consultation for Puglia Region DHITECH, Italy, 18.6.2013 Sustainability of Living Labs presentation and consultation for Rivire-du-Loup in Quebec, Canada, 6.6.2013 From Digital Literacy to Innovation Literacy, at Spark 2013 conference - 4th Global Forum on Telecenters, 28.5.2013, Granada, Spain Social Innovation and Impact Assessment, at European Union JRC-IPTS MIREIA Experts' Workshop: Measuring the impact of e-Inclusion intermediary actors at Spark13 Conference - 4th Global Forum on Telecentres, 29.5.2013 Sustainable development the road to prosperity at DONT MISS THE TRAIN - Managers role in the first

half of the 21st century, Czech Management Association (CMA), 25.4.2013, Prague, Czech Republic Consultation with Korean national innovation agencies and companies, 18-20.03.2013, Seoul, Korea Living lab approach and recent developments of innovative services for older persons living alone, in particular, focusing on applying living lab methodology at Innovations of Social Services for Older Persons Living Alone: Living Lab Approach Conference, Hallym Aging Research Institute (HARI) of Hallym University, 21.3.2013 Chuncheon, Korea Living lab as the engine to animate smart communities at European opportunities looking at our territory: Lecce Smart Community International Workshop, the Living Lab of Puglia@service, Dhitech, 14.4.2013, Lecce, Italy Source: Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland

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City Lab Coventry on Le Monde

A recently Le Monde article was dedicated to the City Lab Coventry describing its latest development and achievements. (READ the article here). The Coventry City Lab uses ICT such as cloud computing, the Coventry City Urban Traffic Management Control System and others to support users to develop and test innovations in Low Carbon Vehicles (Transport) and Sustainable Buildings.

On Sunday October 13th, a living lab methodology developed by iMinds Living Lab(iLab.o) went live during the Ghent Film Festival. The Living Lab methodology was used for iCinema project to develop an interactive application satisfying the customers needs. (Source from iMinds)

ENoLL Living Labs on TIM issues

The Technology Innovation Management Review has recently published the November issue with the theme on Living Labs (more info here). The guest editors of this issue were both from ENoLL community: Seppo Leminen from the Laurea University of Applied

Sciences and Mika Westerlund, from Carleton University. Among the five selected articles, four have been written by ENoLL Effective Members. Then in the December issue about Living Labs and Crowdsourcing again 4 articles out of 5 were written by ENoLL members: iMinds (ENoLL Effective Member) and Laurea University of Applied Sciences (ENoLL Effective Member), Aalto University and Carleton University. Discover more!

Living Lab tools presented at the Hannover Messe 2013

ENoLL was invited to attend the InnoMatNet workshop took place on April 11th in conjunction with the Hannover Messe 2013. Our community showcased some tools and best practice examples coming from the ENoLL Living Lab network: ENoLL Living Lab Knowledge Center, Living Lab Methodology Handbook (Botnia Living Lab) and the CoCo Toolkit (Service Design Unit, Laurea Living Labs, Laurea University of Applied Sciences).

Living Labs in regional Smart Specialization strategies

ENoLL member GAIA (Bird Living Lab) has published a working paper on Living Labs in the framework of Smart Specialization policies for regions, also spotlighted in the Publications section. The paper examines the Urdaibai Bird Center as an example of the potential of entrepreneurial discoveries as opportunities within the framework of smart specialization for all territories.


Announcement of the Living Lab Toolkit at

CitiSense 2013

On November 17th and 18th, Barcelona hosted the CitiSense conference, organized by the World Bank, with the aim to enable cities from all over the world to exchange knowledge and information about smart cities, open innovation, efficient mobility and energy saving. CitiSense attracted more than 250 mayors and representatives from the cities and innovators from around a hundred countries to not only share experience and knowledge with 69 experts, but also suggest good practice measures tailored to each city. The ENoLL Living Lab community was very well represented in this event with input and speeches from the ENoLL President Mr. Jarmo Eskelinen and other ENoLL Council members who acted as experts and supported the networking/knowledge exchange activities (see picture). During the CitiSense event the World Bank and ENoLL publically announced the common production of a Living Lab toolkit for Cities that is planned to be published in June 2014.

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Enhanced cooperation between ENoLL and F2L

On February 19, 2013 European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) and the France Living Labs (F2L) signed a partnership agreement (MoU). In this video, you will see the presentation by Ms. Brigitte Trousse, President of France Living Labs and presentation by Mr. Jarmo Eskelinen, President of ENoLL and find out more about the agreed joint initiatives.

An introduction to smart cities

In this short video made during the Creative Media Days held in November 2012 in Ghent, MIT Media Lab's Professor Kent Larson gives a short introduction on how cities are being designed as a Living Lab for businesses to showcase new technologies and to test out emerging smart innovations. Introduction by ENoLL Chair Jarmo Eskelinen.

TEFIS portal for easy testbed and LL access and management of FI Experiments

ENoLL member Botnia Living Lab is proud to launch the TEFIS-platform, which is a new e-service that gives experimenters easy access to forefront testbed infrastructures. The portal includes features to plan for and run Future Internet experiments by using services provided by the TEFIS connected testbeds including Living Lab support - all available via one single access-point individually or in a combination. The services are used today in different experiments in the fields of Mobile media, e-Health, Network performance measurements, e-learning, Collaborative content distribution in mobile networks and SDN. More information maybe found here

Living Lab Manual for Universities of Applied Sciences by Neloskierre

Network of Living Labs of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences (Neloskierre) has come out with a publication which looks into how Living Labs can operate as an model for bringing together RDI-activities and teaching. This document is only available in Finnish. See here for more information.

The announcement of the Living Lab toolkit featuring Jarmo Eskelinen

(President of ENoLL), Edward

Anderson (World Bank), Ilari Lindi (World Bank), Jesse March

(ENoLL)


Events

Innovation Convention 2014. March 10-11, Brussels. Living Lab session (March 10, 14:00 15:15).

Human Smart Cities conference, March 13, Lisbon (Portugal)

FIA Athens, March 18-20, Athens

EDF, March 19-20, Athens

European Conference on Future Internet (OCFI-1), April 2-3, Brussels (FI-PPP)

ACE Project Summit, April 29-30, Brussels

7th InnoMatNet Workshop, May 7, Barcelona

The XXV ISPIM Innovation Conference held in Dublin, Ireland on June 8-11, 2014

IoT week, June 16-20, London

Smart AgriMatics 2014, June 18-19, Paris

OKFestival 2014, July 15-18, Berlin

ENoLL 5th Summer School 2014, September 2-5, 2014 in Amsterdam

Smart City Expo 2014, November 11-13, 2014 Barcelona

The 9th Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne, March 12 to April 12, 2015

2014: Whats up?

Join us next Summer - 5TH ENoLL Summer School 2014

Ready to join us at the 2014 ENoLL Summer School? The 5th edition will be held in Amsterdam from the 2nd to the 5th of September 2014. This Summer School will examine Living Labs-inspired methods, technologies and policy implications through workshops and lively discussion panels organized by both European and non-European experts. Come and add your talents, skills and energies to ours: this is the place to be if you want to set up a Living Lab, know the most experienced organizations or just learn more about this research field. Registrations are open on the official website. For more info shoot us a mail at [email protected] or follow us on Twitter!

The 8th wave is officially open!

Public and private organisations from all countries in the world are invited to apply for membership of the European Network of Living Labs as of February 3rd 2014. Completed applications must be sent by May 14th, 2014 at 12:00 CET. Approved new members will be officially welcomed at the 8th Wave Launch Ceremony during the 5th ENoLL Summer School in Amsterdam, first week of September 2014.

The application form can only be obtained through pre-registration with the ENoLL Ofce (please contact [email protected]). Note: All applicants will be informed of the outcome of the evaluation 30 days before the publication of results at the 5th ENoLL Summer School in Amsterdam. More information about evaluation criteria, terms and conditions can be found on the ENoLLs website.

Find out more about ENoLL!

ENoLL uses different social media tools to engage and connect with its members and the wider community. Follow us on Twitter (@openlivinglabs) and Facebook. We also regularly use other social media tools such as Vimeo, Slideshare, Flickr, Scribd and Youtube. In addition ENoLL publishes a monthly newsletter, which has around 2500 subscribers. Find out more about how to join the Living Labs discussion on www.openlivinglabs.eu or shoot us a mail at [email protected]

Word from the PresidentENoLL GovernanceElections for the new ENoLL Council took place at the annual General Assembly of the association held in Manchester (UK) on August 27th, 2013.ENoLL Council 2013Chair Jarmo Eskelinen(Forum Virium)Treasurer Lauri Tuomias(Finnish Network Living Labs)Secretary Pieter Ballon(iMinds)Council membersAlvaro Oliveira (Lightning Living Lab)Artur Serra (i2Cat Foundation)Dave Carter (MDDA)Esteve Almirall (ESADE)Piotr Krawczyk (JAMK)Joanne Dobson (Coventry City Lab)Juan A. Bertoln (eLiving Lab)Hanna-Greata Puurtinen (TAMK)Juan F. Delgado (CFR Living Lab)Jokin Garatea (BIRD Living Lab)Mark De Colvenaer (Flemish LL)Tuija Hirvikoski (Laurea Living Labs)Roberto Santoro (EsoCe-Net)Ger Baron (Amsterdam Living Lab) *Marco Combetto (Trentino as Lab) *Adam Olszewski (Poznan LL) *Annika Sllstrm (Botnia LL) **New Council members* Ger Baron, Marco Combetto and Adam Olszewski were elected to the Council at the General Assembly in August, 2012.* * Annika Sllstrm replaced Mikael Brjeson as Council Member.The ENoLL Office, BrusselsAna GarciaPaolo AversanoSong Song2013 Year in ReviewThe European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international, non-profit association of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and beyond, founded in November 2006 by 19 Living Labs, today grown to an extensive network of 330 accredited Living Lab me...HighlightsHighlightsENoLL New Members 7TH WaveAs of August 30th, the 7th Wave of ENoLL brought twenty-five additional network members. Most of the new 7th wave ENoLL members come from European countries with representation from Cyprus, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain an...Living Labs & ResearchProjectsConcluded projectsPolicyWhy Living Labs?Living Labs empower citizens, as end-users, to influence the development of innovative services & products that eventually will benefit the whole society.Living Labs allow industry to develop, validate and integrate new ideas, to partner with other companies and to increase their chances of success during product and/or service launches.Living Labs facilitate the integration of technological innovation in society and increase return on investments in ICT.PublicationsKey events in 2013The ICE & IEEE-ITMC Annual ConferenceKey events in 2013

Key events in 2013How to Join Us?ENoLL is an open community - anyone can join!1. Become a ENoLL Living LabIf your organization wants to become a member of ENoLL and become a certified Living Lab, contact us in order to discuss how to join through the 8th Wave Call for Membership (Feb-May 2014).2. Become an Associated MemberAre you a university, company, research institution, regional or local authority or other government organisation and you support the philosophy of user-driven open innovation? Contact us on how to become an associated member of ENoLL.3. Become an Effective MemberIf you are an adherent member please remember that you can upgrade to ENoLL effective membership so as to contribute to the definition of its strategy. Contact the ENoLL office for further information.4. Join the ENoLL friends open communityENoLL is on facebook and on twitter @openlivinglabs and publishes a monthly newsletter on all things relevant to living labs and user-driven open innovation.Find out more about ENoLL!

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