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ENoLL Activity Report 2014
ENoLL Activity Report 2014
Report
2014
Contents
2 Word from the President
3 2014 Year in review
4 Highlights 2014
6 ENoLL & The World Bank
6 Living Labs & Research
7 Publications
8 Strategic Initiatives
11 Key events in 2014
How to Join Us
ENoLL Governance
Elections for the new ENoLL Council
took place at the Annual General
Assembly of the association held in
Amsterdam on September 2nd, 2014.
ENoLL Council 2014
Chair: Jarmo Eskelinen (Forum Virium
Helsinki)
Treasurer: Lauri Tuomias (Haaga-Helia
& Finnish Network Living Labs)
Secretary: Pieter Ballon (iMinds)
Council Members
Tuija Hirvikoski (Laurea Living Labs)
Alvaro Oliveira (Lightning Living Lab)
Artur Serra (i2Cat Foundation)
Joanne Dobson (Coventry City Lab)
Adrian Slatcher (MDDA) **
Jokin Garatea (BIRD Living Lab)
Juan A. Bertoln (eLiving Lab)
Marco Combetto (Trentino as Lab)
Adam Olszewski (Poznan LL)
Annika Sllstrm (Botnia LL)
Ger Baron (Amsterdam Living Lab)
Ismael Perea (Consorcio Fdez de los
Rios)**
Esteve Almirall (ESADE) *
Piotr Krawczyk (JAMK) *
Esa Ala-Uotila (TAMK) *
New Council members
* Esteve Almirall, Piotr Krawczyk and
Esa Ala-Uotila were re-elected as
Council Members at the General
Assembly September 2014.
* * Adrian Slatcher replaced Dave
Carter and Ismael Perea replaced
Juan F. Delgado as Council Members
The ENoLL Office, Brussels
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.
Paolo Aversano
Zsuzusanna Bodi
Ana Garcia
Lorna Stokes
Highlights
of our
activities
Highlights
number of academic conference paper submissions so far
(40 submissions with 18 accepted contributions) the 2014
edition of the conference illustrated the continual growth
and diversity in this new and emerging research domain.
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Research
As a rather young and recent phenomenon, Living Labs
create numerous challenges and issues to be tackled by
both scholars and practitioners. It is necessary to add to
both the theoretical and practical knowledge on Living
Labs in order to advance the learning in this field.
During 2013 ENoLL launched a call for abstracts for the
ENoLL Summer School that consolidated in 2014 with a
call for full papers at OpenLivingLab Days 2014. In 2014 a
total of 40 papers were submitted by researchers and
following review from the Scientific Committee (made of
up Living Lab research experts, professors & other
representatives from research institutions) 18 papers
were accepted and published by ENoLL in a collection of
conference proceedings from the OpenLivingLab days
Research Day 2014 (September 2nd, 2014). The Living
Lab Research day was structured in 4 breakout sessions
related to Living Lab case studies and Living Lab theory,
methods and tools and attracted a large and varied
audience interested in discovering more about the
developments in this field. The proceedings can be found
on www.scribbed.com/openlivinglabs.
Additionally, and as part of the ENoLL strategic
discussions taking place in 2014, ENoLL has launched in
2015 the Future of Living Labs: Research and Vision
Special Interest Group, also in the path of consolidating
activities started during the ENoLL Summer School 2013
where Living Lab researchers informally started
organising themselves.
Publications
Strategic Initiatives
In August 2011 the ENoLL General Assembly approved an
internal process called ENoLL project involvement
guidelines that explicitly describes rules for participation
of ENoLL in projects and the benefits for the community.
Through this process a part of the ENoLL Board (ENoLL
project WG) is regularly convened assess proposals and it
makes decisions about ENoLLs participation in different
projects and strategic initiatives. ENoLL participates in
projects (mainly European funded projects) to help
contribute to build ENoLL assets, support joint activities
in-between ENoLL members, and to strengthen
connections between ENoLL and local, regional, European
and non-European governments, policy makers, and other
relevant organisations and communities.
In 2014 ENoLL was involved in 14 different strategic
initiatives, contributing with dissemination, event and
workshop development, knowledge transfer and training,
community building, community management, brokering
activities, stakeholder engagement, project capitalization
and support for exploitation. At a lesser scale, ENoLL can
act as a single entry point to outreach different crosscultural communities at European scale. ENoLL acts as a
neutral and multi-stakeholder platform facilitating strong
synergies among different initiatives.
Europeana Creative enables &
promotes greater re-use of cultural
heritage resources by creative
industries. Europeana Creative sets
the
stage
for
fascinating
collaborations between contentproviding
cultural
heritage
institutions and creative industries stakeholders in the
education, tourism, social networks and design sectors. In
2014 ENoLL collaborated with Living Lab members
Barcelona Laboratori (Spain) and FutureEverything (UK) to
organise events promoting cultural heritage reuse
engaging with local developer communities and creative
entrepreneurs.
More
information
at
http://europeanacreative.eu/ and @eCreativeEU on
Twitter.
ECIM is a flexible cloud-based
solution designed to help support
smart, liveable and connected
cities by fostering and bringing
together state of the art
information at http://www.specifi-project.eu/
@SPECIFI_project on Twitter.
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CreatiFI is a project
introducing
FIWARE
technologies to very
large relevant communities of Creative Industries.
CreatiFI aims to attract a large number of developers to
participate in developing tools and services for creative
communities. This initiative is developing a large amount
of FIWARE prototypes and technically mature
commercial viable FIWARE tools for the Creative
Industries. A group of ENoLL members - Forum Virium
Helsinki, i2Cat, iMinds - are part of the consortium and
fully engaged to support CreatiFI developers and
entrepreneurs. Within CreatiFI ENoLL supports SMEs in
networking activities: building alliances for the future
exploitation of their applications, new products and
services. By doing so, ENoLL establishes a connection
with many creative industries, understanding their
needs and possibly proposing Living Lab methodologies
as a way forward to develop/test/launch innovation.
ENoLL finally links CreatiFI activities to the SPECIFI
project and enthusiastic work done to build a European
Creative Ring of connected, creative and smart
citizens/cities.
More
information
at
http://www.creatifi.eu/ and @creatifi on Twitter.
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12
Key events in
2014
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Europe.
Key
14
events
in
2014
City Innovation Summit in Barcelona. Panel discussion
featuring Waag Society & FutureEverything, November
2014