D.6.7 Report on Extra-European LL Networking
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Extra-European Dissemination activities in Brazil
Energy Efficiency has been a central topic in many Brazilian Living Labs. The APOLLON cross-border activities in the domain of Energy Efficiency have been implemented in the context of the EU-Brazil cooperation for Living Labs. This activity has been developed
with a bottom-up approach involving the main stakeholders of Living Labs –
universities,
research
administration: –
institutes,
enterprises,
funding
organizations,
Information dissemination and awareness. Fostering the interest to the ENoLL Community membership.
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Dissemination Workshops in several Brazilian cities.
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strategic objectives, Federal and State policies opportunities, etc.
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thematic and institutional meetings.
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public
Workshops to support the definition of the Living Lab concept: partnership creation, Mentoring aiming at the preparation of the Living Lab eco-systems. Workshops, Meetings with the main stakeholders at academic, research, enterprise, federal and state governments, municipalities, associations and NGO’s, etc.
And simultaneously a top-down approach at federal, state and regional levels: –
Documents of strategy to the DG Info of the European Commission demonstrating
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the strategic role of Brazil as a partner for the EU.
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Conference in 2008 and 2009 organised by CKIR in Helsinki.
Scientific publications and conference presentations, namely at the Innovation Discussion panels in conferences (e-Challenges, ICE, European Commission events,
etc.) dedicated to present and discuss the EU-Brazil cooperation in the domain of
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innovation focused in Living Labs.
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methodology.
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methodology.
Promote awareness and motivate Brazilian State governments to the Living Labs Promote awareness and motivate Brazilian Federal Government to the Living Labs Steering Committee of the European Commission for the scientific and technological cooperation negotiation.
APOLLON ICT PSP Project
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Final Version
