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November news from ENoLL
Your monthly update on Living Labs, events, calls for funding, papers or experts, EU Projects & of course ENoLL member activities.
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NEWS AND STORIES FOR THIS MONTH
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Your chance to join the largest community committed to citizen driven innovation. The 10th wave is now open!
Public and private organisations from across the world actively committed to engaging and empowering users and citizens to take part in sustainable innovation processes are invited to apply for membership of the European Network of Living Labs from today as a part of the 10th Wave. Completed applications must be sent by March 8th, 2016 at 12:00 CET.
ENoLL counts today over 170 active Living Labs members worldwide (395 historically recognised over 9 years) are looking forward to your application and welcoming your Living Lab to our ever-growing community of innovation actors where you can share, connect, learn from and collaborate with Living Labs from across the world. Read more about the process & criteria for 10th Wave membership here.
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Pre-announcement : Call for papers on Living Labs for OpenLivingLab Days 2016 & special collaboration with the TIM Review
We are pleased to announce that the call for papers on Living Labs will launch on Thursday 3rd of December. We are also launching a collaboration with the Technology Innovation Management Review (TIM Review) in order to offer the best papers submitted to OpenLivingLab Days the opportunity to be published in a special TIM Review dedicated to Living Labs due for publication in December 2016. Deadline for full paper submission: 11th April 2016 with the Research Day at OpenLivingLab Days taking place on 23rd August 2016. More details, topics and submission details on the call for papers can be found on our website on Thursday: www.openlivinglabs.eu
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ENoLL & Living Labs at Smart City Expo & CitiSense
As in previous years the Barcelona Smart City Expo and World Congress (17-19 November 2015) attracted many urban stakeholders and innovators from all over the world. This event is also becoming one of the reference points for innovation communities co-creating digital open and sustainable urban solutions with cities and citizens. Both the conference and exhibition showed an increased participation of Living Labs, Living Labbers and interest in Living Labs. A specific session featuring Living Labs was proof of the important shift in both the public and private sector putting citizens and local digital entrepreneurs at the heart of city innovation.The CitiSense 2015 Event (16-17 November), organised by the World Bank in parallel with Smart City Expo, also featured Living Labs, open services platforms for cities (with the presence of FIWARE), and the Open and Agile Smart Cities movement. The CitiSense event supports cities in emerging countries to deal with the new technological paradigm combined with 21 century challenges embracing Citizen Driven Innovation as one of its main pillars.
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Living Labs at the center of Urban and Regional Innovation
ENoLL and Living Labs will play an important role in the high level conference: "Connecting Regions and Cities: Making the Digital Single Market work for Europe" organised by the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and held in Brussels tomorrow on December 2nd. The conference brings together representatives from the Committee of the Regions, the European Parliament and the European Commission, as well as high-level specialists from the academia and industry, to discuss how to make the Digital Single Market work in Europe's regions and cities for its citizens and businesses. The ENoLL President, Dr. Tuija Hirvikoska, will give an important contribution about Living Labs in the session "Active Citizens, Digital capabilities: Building eSkills for a Digital World." Find more information on the event website here.
Living Labs is part of the Digital Agenda Toolbox for RIS3 (tools for ICT uptake) helping regions to develop their research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3).
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Remembering Bernhard Katzy: founding member of ENoLL & dedicated researcher
The European Network of Living Labs was deeply saddened to have learned about the recent death of Bernhard Katzy, a founding member of our network and the ENoLL community. Bernhard had been very active in the beginning of ENoLL in 2006 before the ENoLL Secretariat had been established. As a past member of the ENoLL Council his commitment to the network helped establish the community you see before you today. He was, until recently, active on research topics related to Living Labs and Open Innovation through his position as Professor for Technology and Innovation Management at LIACS, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science and as Director of CeTIM Center for Technology and Innovation Management. He spent his professional life advancing Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurial Innovation as a profession around the world and to establish the field as academic discipline. ENoLL would like to send its condolences to Bernhard's family, friends and colleagues.
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Strengthening Guadalinfo Living Lab Ecosystem
The Guadalinfo telecentre network, (project managed by the Consorcio Fernando de los Ríos Living Lab) has launched its new website www.guadalinfo.es. Guadalinfo was born 13 years ago as a telecentre network working for free and public access to the Internet and ICT. Today, Guadalinfo is a perfect Living Lab ecosystem demonstrating the potential of open innovation, composed by Rural Labs and Urban Labs (more than 800 in total – and more than 1.000.000 users) citizens are actively contributing to cocreating their future. Now, a new website has been launched to serve the new and its current users needs. More Infomation (in Spanish) here.
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Barcelona GameJam Fair with Citilab & Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Happening today in Barcelona is the 2015 edition of the GameJam Fair hosted by our Living Lab, Citilab. Applied games do more than teach or train and have other goals, such as persuasion, exercise, and (physical) therapy. JamToday project’s GameJam participants made over 100 games this year aiming to solve health related issues and to teach to adopt healthier lifestyles. Additionally ENoLL president Tuija Hirvikoski is chairing a panel discussion and Laurea University of Applied Sciences will be represented by Bonfire team with the Hungry Cells App prepared during the Laurea GameJam. It's great to see such a great collaboration between research projects and Living Labs in action! See what is happening live at the event via Twitter.
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Living Lab Conference with Cité du design & and France/Quebec Living Labs for the 28e Entretiens Jacques Cartier
Cité du design will host a conference today on Living Labs as a part of the 28e Entretiens Jacques Cartier with the Centre Jacques Cartier This event is also organised collaboration with the France-Quebec cooperation project ( CPCFQ 65th edition) and related to the emergent francophone network of Living labs which is currently supported by France/Francophonie Living Labs. This exchange brings together French & Quebecois Living Labs from different sectors & speakers include some familiar faces from our community. Read more about the event (in French) here.
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ENoLL Member Platform - experimentation period still open
The experimentation and testing period for the ENoLL Member Platform is still open for all ENoLL active members for you to assess the value of the ENoLL platform. Developed by Basaksehir Living Lab, the platform aims to enable ENoLL members to upload projects, community tools and services developed through their Living Labs to facilitate information sharing, ecosystem mapping and knowledge exchange. Check the steps here to start the testing, it only takes 10 minutes!
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3rd wave of the Open & Agile Smart Cites Initative
Last week, at the Smart City Expo World Congress, the Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative announced the third wave of cities adopting de-facto standards that will give a boost to the use of real-time open data and the creation of a sustainable marketplace in which smart cities can collaborate and share actionable plans, experience and technology to transform cities into engines of growth and well-being of citizens. OASC announced recently the addition of 14 more cities since March, making a total of 75 cities in 13 European countries. Cities interested in discovering more about the network can find details here.
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Opening the Data Pipeline for Smart Services – FIWARE and European Data Portal announce their collaboration
Data is the fuel for any smart service. So the new partnership between FIWARE and the European Data Portal is instrumental in opening a fountain of open data sources from European cities and nations able to be used in the design and delivery of new services and applications. Read more.
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The Creative Ring and ENoLL at Smart City Expo 2015
At Smart City Expo 2015 in Barcelona from the 17th to the 19th of November, ENoLL collaborated with the Creative Ring community running a stand in the exhibition area and co-organizing a dedicated session on creative communities. A number of Living Labs like iMinds, Barcelona Laboratori and the EGG participated in this initiative. We met many creative industries, labs and cities hosting creative hubs. Read more here.
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FIRE Forum 2015, 9th December, Brussels
The FIRE Forum 2015 will bring together representatives of FIRE projects, the European Commission and other stakeholders and initiatives to discuss the further development of experimental facilities, research and innovation, and how a federated European experimental infrastructure will drive innovation. This event will also give the opportunity to newcomers to network with key players in the FIRE arena in view of the ICT-2016 Call and will provide information about a number of Open Calls that ongoing FIRE projects will open towards the end of 2015/beginning of 2016.
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7th European Innovation Summit, 7 - 10 December, Brussels
The 7th European Innovation Summit will set the stage for the future of innovation in Europe. Taking place from 7th to the 10th of December in the European Parliament in Brussels, the 4-days event will call for a “Pact for Innovation”. which will develop an ambitious vision of what innovation can do for the EU economy and society. The future-oriented bottom-up approach of the Pact will unite a group of local, regional, national and EU innovation stakeholders. Read more about the event here.
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Internet of Things Event, June 2016 - Call for Speakers
On June 7-8, 2016, the 5th edition of the Internet of Things Event will take place at High Tech Campus Eindhoven in The Netherlands.Big data, wearable technology, connected devices, cloud-based software: the Internet of Things industry is still rising in a high-speed tempo. Which markets are changed or influenced by the growing IoT? How to secure the cloud? And what developments can we expect in the near future? Are you an expert? Call for speakers is currently open until April 2016. Submit your idea here.
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Call for papers at Smart Cities in Smart Regions 2016 Conference
First International Smart Cities in Smart Regions 2016 Conference will take place in May 10 - 12, 2016 in the Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland. A call for papers on the Future Development of Regions is open until January 31, 2016. The call welcomes case studies, methodologies and development results that have applied collaborative and user driven Living Lab practices within urban development. Discover more about the event here.
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Upcoming events for your calendar
- Living Lab Conference with Cité du design & and France/Quebec Living Labs for the 28e Entretiens Jacques Cartier, 30/11 - 1/12, Saint-Étienne, France
- JamToday Fair, 30/11 - 1/12, Barcelona Spain
- 7th European Innovation Summit, 7-10 December, Brussels Belgium
- FIRE Forum 2015, 9 December, Brussels Belgium
- 4th Conference of Partners of the European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing, 9-10 December, Brussels Belgium
- Nordic Health Technology & eHealth Forum. 13-15 January 2016, Helsinki Finland
- Connected Smart Cities Conference, January 21 2016, Brussels Belgium
- Design & the City, 19-22 April 2016, Amsterdam the Netherlands
- Net Futures Conference 2016, 20- 21 April 2016, Brussels Belgium
- Smart Cities in Smart Regions 2016 Conference, 10-12 May 2016, Lahti Finland
- Internet of Things Event, 7-8 June 2016, Eindhoven the Netherlands
- European Conference on Networks and Communications, 27-30 June 2016, Athens Greece
- Open Living Labs Days 2016, 23-26th August 2016, Montreal Canada
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