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December news from ENoLL
Your monthly update on Living Labs, events, calls for funding, papers or experts, EU Projects & of course ENoLL member activities.
2014 has been a great year and thanks to those who have been a part of it - we can't wait to see what the next 12 months have to bring! We're looking further to building stronger relationships with you over the course of 2015 and collaborating on new projects, initiatives and events on Living Labs & Open Innovation.
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Call for Papers on Living Labs for OpenLivingLab Days 2015
OpenLivingLab Days will take place in Istanbul in August 2015, and for the 5th year running we're pleased to launch a call for papers on Living Labs. 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. Within this call for papers, we welcome both conceptual and empirical papers. Accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings of OpenLivingLab Days 2015 with an ISBN number. Deadline for full paper submission: April 27th 2015 with the research Day at OpenLivingLab Days 2015: 25th August 2015. More details, topics and submission details here.
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Connected Smart Cities Conference, January 22nd, Brussels
Organised in Brussels on January 22nd, 2015, with the contribution of several European initiatives, this public workshop is set up as a space for sharing and debate about technology, ecosystem and toolkits for open and connected smart cities. The Connected Smart Cities Conference is supported by the CIP Smart City portfolio projects, FIWARE, OrganiCity (new H2020 FIRE project), some of the cities and city innovation agencies involved in those initiatives together with both ENoLL and and Eurocities KSF. The conference will cover topics such as Interoperability, harmonisation of APIs, solutions portability, avoid vendor lock-in and many other. The conference is free of charge but registration is compulsory and spaces very limited. You can register here.
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Official opening of Adelaide Living Lab for Low Carbon Living
Officially having opened their doors on December 1st 2014 Adelaide Living Lab became a member of ENoLL during the recent 8th wave. The unique Living Lab program in place will help provide better understanding of low carbon living. It allows industry and the community to draw their research from current development sites to help shape the future of low carbon living and design both in South Australia and across the country. Read more about Adelaide ‘Living Laboratory’ here & discover their website here.
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JamToday Fair 2015, February 11th, Brussels!
The JamToday Fair 2015 is the first in a series of annual events supporting the creation, implementation and deployment of educational games. Organised by the JamToday Network, JamToday Fair 2015 will focus on ICT skills and healthy living, with professionals and keynotes speakers from both areas. Our aim is to bring you up-to-date with applied games and how to run a game jam. And we will show exactly how to do this! Come and join in! Join the event on the 11th of February in Brussels, registration here. Discover more about the project on the JamToday Website
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Europeana Creative Design Challenge closes January 15th!
The aim of the Europeana Creative Design Challenge is to engage designers, artists, developers and entrepreneurs to explore and experiment with with cultural heritage content available in Europeana. We welcome a wide range of works for the Challenge, and appreciate contemporary and creative approaches to the digital cultural heritage materials. For example, including but not limited to results of digital fabrication, media art, design objects, web/mobile applications and services. The challenge opens on the 30th October and online submissions are welcome until the deadline: 15th January, 2015 at 20h00 CET via ecreativedesign2015.istart.org To find out more on the challenge, entry criteria and discover more support please visit the Europeana Creative website here.
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First meeting of the Quebec network of Living Labs
In December 2014 Communautique hosted the first meeting dedicated to living labs based in Quebec, Canada. The meeting, held in Montreal, included a first part of formal work followed by a knowledge-sharing session. This assembly was attended by local Living Labs and representatives of Quebecois research centres, centres for youth and centres for social innovation in agriculture. The newborn network of Living Labs is the result of close collaboration between different stakeholders. It has the support of ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) and France Living Labs. The Quebec Network has already defined a plan for the coming three years and aims to organise shared initiatives as well as strategic local and international events. Discover more here (in French).
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ACE Accelerator launches 2nd call for funding for ICT start-ups
Does your business has what it takes to go international? After a successful 1st call the ACE Acceleration program has now opened a second call for applications aiming at selecting the final top 50 ICT start-ups and SMEs in Europe helping them to internationalize. The call is open until the 25th of January and offers a great chance to accelerate and test your business in a foreign market in 2015 with involvement of local Living Labs! Find out more on the call via the ACE website and apply here now.
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FIWARE Accelerator Programme
If you are an start-up, web-entrepreneur or SME don’t miss this opportunity currently offered under the FIWARE accelerator programme. The calls are currently grouped into 8 thematic areas – Smart Cities, eHealth, Transport, Energy & Environment, Agrifood, Media & Content, Manufacturing & Logistics and Social & Learning. Via these calls you could enjoy the €80 million euros of direct funding, mentoring and networking to create your innovative Internet application with FIWARE technologies. There are currently several accelerator projects still with their calls open right now. The list of projects with open calls arranged by thematic areas are visible here.
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Upcoming events for your calendar
- European Creative Hubs Forum, January 13-15, Lisbon
- Connected Smart Cities Conference, January 22nd 2015, Brussels
- JamToday Fair, February 11th 2015, Brussels
- Shaping the Future of Digital Social Innovation in Europe, February 17th, Brussels
- Future Everything Festival, February 26-28, Manchester UK
- European Summit on Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing, March 9-10, Brussels
- The 9th Biennal Internationale Design Saint-Etienne March 12 to April 12th 2015, France
- Net Futures 2015, March 25-26, Brussels
- 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization, April 13-17 2015, London UK
- THE URBACT CITY FESTIVAL, May 6-8, Riga Latvia
- OpenLivingLab Days 2015, August 25-28, Istanbul Turkey
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