Presentation at the LILAN final conference

1. European Network of Living Labs
(ENoLL)
Mikael Börjeson, Sweden
ENoLL Council
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2. Overview
• ENoLL, history and value..
• CoreLabs 2004-2007 (Launch Helsinki, 2006 – 10 members)
• What is the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)
• Who are our members?
• ENoLL supports the EIP AHA
• ENoLL in Smart City- and Future Internet
Initiatives
• Find out more…
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3. What is (the value of)
a Living Lab?
• Living Lab is a real-life test and
experimentation environment where users and
producers co-create innovations
• Public-Private-People Partnership (PPPP) for
creation, prototyping, validating and testing
new technologies, services, products etc in
real-life contexts
• Empower citizens (end-users) as active co-
creators of value, ideas & innovations that can
benefit the whole society
• Moreover, Policy-makers & citizens can use
Living Labs to design & refine new policies in
real-life scenarios
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4. Where does it come from and how
did it evolve into ENoLL?
• Originated for MIT (US), further developed in
Europe
• Supported by EC as bridging the gap between R&D and
market entrance (faster take up of R&D results) and
enable SMEs obstacles on local and regional markets
in the fragmented European market place
• Linked with EC policies and initiatives EU2020,
Digital Agenda, especially through initiatives such
as EIPs on Smart Cities, Active and Healthy Ageing
(AHA), Future Internet, Design …
• Several Living Lab initiatives supported by the EC
as well as national programmes (FP7, CIP ICT PSP
programme, etc)
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5. ENoLL in short (1/2)
• ENoLL informal network launched in 2006 under the
Finnish EU Presidency, grown into a non-profit
international association representing a diverse
community of over 300 ENoLL ‘certified’ Living Labs
All Living Labs:
www.openlivinglabs.eu/livinglabs
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6. ENoLL in short (2/2)
• ENoLL association is lead by ENoLL effective and
associated members (General Assembly) with elected
management board (Council of 20 members)
• ENoLL office in Brussels (2010) facilitating
knowledge exchange, joint action and project
partnerships between its members:
• Network events to exchange information and best practice
• Disseminates information on EU funding and project
opportunities, supports to build project consortia and
develop joint projects
• Influences EU policies and engages in debate with EU
institutions (consultations, workshops etc)
• ENoLL is also partner to key few EU-funded projects
of strategic importance and benefit to the whole
network
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7. ENoLL full members
• IBBT-iLab.o (BE)
• Flemish Living Lab Platform (BE)
• Northern Rural-Urban Living Lab (FI)
• Laurea Living Labs Network (FI)
• HumanTech LivingLab (FI)
• Suuntaamo Tampere Central Region Living Lab (FI)
• Helsinki Living Lab - Forum Virium Helsinki (FI)
• Ways Of Learning for the Future (FR)
• Telecommunication Networks Integrated Services Laboratory (EL)
• Trentino as a Lab (IT)
• Lighting Living Lab (PT)
• i2Cat- Catalonia Digital Lab (ES)
• espaitec Living Lab (ES)
• Bird Living Lab (ES)
• Consorcio Fernando de los Rios Living Lab (ES)
• Botnia Living Lab (SE)
• Manchester Living Lab (UK)
• City Lab Coventry (UK)
• The European Society of Concurrent Enterprising Network (IT)
• Aalto University School of Economics (FI)
• ESADE (ES)
• Finnish Living Lab Network of Universities of Applied Sciences
(FI)
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8. Living Labs, Smart Cities
& Future Internet
Smart cities:policies,
application pull,
public data, citizens initiatives
[ Citizens ]
Living lab: User-driven
playground for co- creating
Future Internet testbeds as and validating innovative
technology platforms scenarios and services
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9. EIP AHA
European
Innova1on
Partnership
on
Ac1ve
and
Healthy
Ageing
ENoLL Commitment
ENoLL published a commitment to EIP AHA Action Group C2: Interoperable
•
independent Living Solutions
• Active in the Interoperability sub-group in the area of application
interoperability and supporting the socio-economic evidence and
implementation subgroups (mainly in the WPs related to User Empowerment
and involvement)
• ENoLL Commitment is built on following:
• Coordination of a pan-European community of Living Labs in the
domain of Health and AAL that will contribute to the availability
of interoperable independent living solutions with special focus
on application, organizational and service interoperability, and
that will support cross-border development and testing of
solutions, considering contextual factors, business models and
strong involvement of user communities
• Predecessor of this commitment is the APOLLON project, carried out
by many ENoLL members, and that has taken an important role in
networking and harmonising Living Lab approaches throughout Europe
• Results from the APOLLON project have been officially transferred
to ENoLL for open exploitation towards the wider community of
Living Labs, including the Health and Independent Living Thematic
Network
• ENoLL is also involved in the FI-PPP as a partner in the CONCORD
project supporting one of the main FI-PPP pillars: the user driven
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approach

10. EIP AHA
ENoLL Planned Activities
• Based on the concept of community and consensus building and, exchange
of knowledge and experiences, ENoLL carries out projects and relies on
its members while collecting and bringing together knowledge from
multiple projects and actions carried out a local, regional and
European level in the AHA domain.
• As part of its networking activities, ENoLL plans for organising AHA
workshops and networking activities in order to:
• Gather input from many projects about the current usage of
standards, challenges and success stories in the implementation of
interoperable solutions and applications for Independent Living
• Promote the usage in current and future projects of interoperable
AHA solutions aligned with EIP-AHA plan and actions.
• Forster partnerships among the ENoLL members and between them and
the FI-PPP and AALOA community as a platform to design and
implement these solutions and applications involving many SMEs and
many users all over Europe to gather evidence about return of
investment
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11. Find out more…
• www.openlivinglabs.eu
• Follow us on Twitter @openlivinglabs and on facebook
• www.fireball.eu
• http://smartcitiesnetwork.eu/ (beta)
• www.apollon-pilot.eu
• Cross-border pilots on: Homecare & independent living service, Energy
efficiency, eManufacturing & eParticipation
• www.fi-ppp.eu
• http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/
livinglabs
• Technology Innovation Management Review (Sep 2012)
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12.
THANK YOU !
URL: www.openlivinglabs.eu
Mikael Börjeson: mikael.borjeson@cdt.ltu.se
ENoLL Office: info@enoll.org
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