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Summer 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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OpenLivingLab Days 2015 Agenda
We are pleased to bring you the first outline of the OpenLivingLab Days Agenda. We will be bringing you more information on individual session speakers and workshops in the coming week. Please find here a more detailed outline of Day 3 and Day 4 of the conference agenda* including the different parallel workshop that will be happening on these days: currently 24 inspiring workshops to choose from! *please note that this agenda is subject to change over the coming weeks. Tickets are selling fast and be sure to get yours here before it's too late!
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Living Lab Fair – Open call for stands at OpenLivingLab Days
The Living Lab fair will run on Day 2 and 3 of OpenLivingLab Days (Wednesday the 26th and Thursday the 27th of August) and offers a great opportunity for you to present your Living Lab or Living Lab project, disseminate your research, conduct Living Lab testing or prototype a new product or service. Directly submit your idea for a stand via the form here. Deadline for expression of interest: July 17th 2015.
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In dialogue with Marco Combetto (Trentino as a Lab)
We have recently interviewed Marco Combetto, Coordinator of our Italian member Trentino as a Lab, on topics including regional Living Labs, open innovation in Italy, Public-Private-Partnerships, regional open data initiatives and more. Here you find a some great highlights of our chat and discover the work happening in Italy now around Living Labs.
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Lecturer from Laurea, Seppo Leminen, Wins ISPIM 2015 Best Paper Award
A research paper on living labs by Principal lecturer Seppo Leminen of Laurea University of Applied Sciences, and his international colleagues, was awarded the Best Paper on Practical Implications for Technology award at a conference for the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) in Budapest, Hungary on Monday, June 15, 2015. The paper entitled Paradoxical tensions in living labs, examines the tensions and paradoxes related to open innovation taking place in living labs. Warm congratulations to the hard work done by the team and their dedication to promoting Living Labs in the global research and innovation communities! Read more here.
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ENoLL Challenge results
The 1st ENoLL challenge aiming at getting a better idea about our members’ needs, wishes and suggestions was launched the end of March in collaboration with the Swiss Energy Living Lab. We received very useful, thought-provoking and constructive ideas that made the decision about the winners difficult. For this reason we asked your help to vote for your favorites. Now we are happy to announce the winners of the challenge! Based on the votes and the criteria: Interest for members, Creativity and Innovativeness the most popular ideas are coming from:
- Eric Seulliet
- Marco Combetto
- Grigoris Chatzikostas
Congratulations to all of them! We are looking forward to hearing their pitches during the 2015 OpenLivingLab Days session. We would like to also thank for all of those who contributed to build ENoLL future and submitted ideas!
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Next steps of MyNeighbourhood
MyNeighbourhood project activities are drawing to a close after 3 years of intense work. This thrilling initiative aimed to energise neighbourhoods by proposing a web platform - www.my-n.eu - where citizens could gather, share information and organise activities both online and offline. The consortium announced final results and next steps during Beyond 2020, an international forum held in Lisbon from the 22nd to the 24th of June, 2015. The platform will continue being used by the the 25 registered neighbourhoods in the years to come, new neighbourhoods are invited to join. Do you represent/work for a city, or a region? Discover how to become part of MyNeighbourhood here: it is easy, value-adding and for free!
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Design for Europe: a e-Learning solutions for Living Labs
Design for Europe is a web platform and programme of events to innovate in business, the public sector and policymaking using design. This platform offers:
- Case studies that demonstrate the impact of good design
- Learning materials and tools to help organisations use design more effectively
- A programme of events and workshops across Europe
- A collection of expert advice on how to implement design-led innovation
Many articles and methodologies are published every month, a number of them can prove to be useful for Living Labs. Check out for instance the opinion piece “Three principles for disruptive innovation” by Rodrigo Bautista, or the Estonian case study “People-centred public services”.
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Register for the ENoLL Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
We have more and more registrations to our recently launched SIGs (Future of Living Labs/Research and Vision, Urban/City Living Lab, Regional Living Labs, Living Lab services for SMEs,Health Living Labs) and exciting discussions are just about to start! Don’t miss this opportunity and join the relevant groups with the first wave!
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Design4Health 2015, 16-16 July, Sheffield
Design4Health 2015, organised from the 13th-16th of July, is an event that encompasses a conference, exhibition & 24 hour design4health challenge. It's a multi-disciplinary conference providing a platform for dialogue between designers, healthcare professionals, funding bodies, researchers and users. Organised by ENoLL member Lab4Living based at Sheffield Hallam University International in the UK, its sure to be a great event for Living Labs active on many health related topics. Check the extensive agenda here.
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Europeana Creative Culture Jam, 9-10 July, Vienna
Europeana Creative Culture Jam is the final showcase event of Europeana Creative, a project that explores ways for creative industries to connect with cultural heritage which ENoLL has been involved with over the past 2 years. Culture Jam, happening in Vienna on the 9th and 10th of July 2015, will mix inspiring keynote talks with lively discussion on topics ranging from copyright to co-creation and from living labs to business models. Everyone with a creative, practical or strategic interest in open data, cultural heritage or digital culture is invited to join us at the Austrian National Library.
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Europeana Creative Culture Jam, 9-10 July, Vienna
Europeana Creative Culture Jam is the final showcase event of Europeana Creative, a project that explores ways for creative industries to connect with cultural heritage which ENoLL has been involved with over the past 2 years. Culture Jam, happening in Vienna on the 9th and 10th of July 2015, will mix inspiring keynote talks with lively discussion on topics ranging from copyright to co-creation and from living labs to business models. Everyone with a creative, practical or strategic interest in open data, cultural heritage or digital culture is invited to join us at the Austrian National Library.
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The #CreativeRing15 workshop in Barcelona
On the 23rd of June a number of creative cities met in Barcelona at the Disseny Hub for the first workshop of the Creative Ring network. Organised by The EGG, i2cat, ENoLL and iMinds, this meeting aimed to present Creative Ring memberships to interested cities and overview network structure. Read more on outcomes and next steps of the Creative Ring on our website!
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Upcoming events for your calendar
- Europeana Creative Culture Jam, 9-10 July, Vienna Austria
- CAPS 2015, 9-10 July, Brussels Belgium
- Design4Health2015 Conference, 13-16 July, Sheffield UK
- OpenLivingLab Days 2015, 25-28th August, Istanbul Turkey
- 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 14-18th September, Poznan Poland
- Global Forum 2015, September 28-29, Oulu Finland
- 8th European Conference on ICT for Transport Logistics, 5-7th October, Bordeaux France
- Open Days: 13th European Week of Regions and Cities, 12-15th October, Brussels Belgium
- ICT 2015 Innovate, Connect, Transform, 20-22nd October, Lisbon Portugal
- Amsterdam Privacy Conference, 23-26th October, Amsterdam The Netherlands. Deadline abstracts Call for papers 15th of March
- Smart City Expo, 17-19th November, Barcelona Spain
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