Apollon Final Report
9 Sustainability 9.1 Community and thematic networks In terms of dissemination and sustainability, the project has as overall objective to inform and network the relevant stakeholders in Europe (Living Labs, SMEs, large enterprises, government agencies) for each specific domain. The project had to ensure dissemination among Living Labs, public organisations, industry and SMEs on a European-wide and even global scale and to create sustainable networks of cross-border Living Labs in Europe, that together can address the common challenges in their specific domain, based on a solid governance model for thematic cross border networks of Living Labs. Building on a steadily growing number of APOLLON support partners (i.e. non-consortium members who signed a letter of support, indicating willingness to support the project goals and gain privileged access to networking and dissemination events) of 154 organisations (58 at the project kick-off; 89 at M12) in 23 countries, committing to one of the APOLLON vertical domains, a large amount of both generic as well as thematically specialised, and Living Lab-oriented as well as SME-oriented activities, an SME portal implemented on the APOLLON website, and the survey results of specific online surveys for each of those domains, the APOLLON thematic networks have been created.
Support Partners Government 2%
Industry 3%
University 10%
Living Lab 53%
SME 32%
APOLLON Support Partners These networks of Living Labs were then created based on the establishment of an effective dialog with the communities that represent the global ENoLL Open System namely LL-
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