The first open European Network of Living Labs A Living Lab is an open innovation environment in real-life settings in which user-driven innovation is the co-creation process for new services, products and societal infrastructures. Living Labs encompass societal and technological dimensions simultaneously in a business-citizens-government-academia partnership. As of 20 November 2006, a “First Wave” of nineteen Living Labs across Europe joined forces as a network, to develop and offer a gradually growing set of networked Living Lab services. As of 17 October 2007, a “Second Wave” with thirty-two additional Living Labs, and as of 25 November 2008, the “Third Wave” respectively brought to the consolidation of the network by means of sixty-eight additional network members. Finally, the “Fourth Wave” concluded on April 14, 2010 embraced eighty-three new members into its network: ENoLL is now based on a total of 212 Living Labs (the figure includes also 25 affiliated Living Labs from non European Countries).
Moving the Goal Posts - a vision of open innovation This vision is about moving the goal posts from a position where the user is seen as a traditional stakeholder and consumer of industry led innovations, to a position where the user and user communities are contributors and co-creators of new innovations.
In order to make a move towards this future, a network of Living Labs is looking at the “Innovation Lifecycle” {figure above} and beginning to offer and create specialised services for all necessary actors in the system; end-users, SME’s, corporations, public sector and academia. Services The Living Lab sites will already from the beginning offer site specific services such as: Need-finding services, Public Innovation services, Test & Validation services, Business Incubation support services, Collaborative Mediation services and Innovation externalisation services. The emerging new services include: Services to empower users, personalisation & customisation, Idea Generation services, Professional
Community services, Pervasive expertise sharing and Lead User community services
Roadmap The network is led by the Living Labs Portfolio Leadership Group and is composed by the Living Labs selected in the four waves. This development uses a joint Living Labs roadmap 2007-2010 process, facilitated by the EU Coordination Action projects CoreLabs and CLOCK and the Thematic Networks CO-LLABS and APOLLON, focusing on development of Europe wide multi-site Living Labs Pilots. The network development roadmap is, and will continue to be, coordinated with EU Presidencies as appropriate, and the roadmap currently includes the following main milestones: Date November 2006 October 2007 November 2008 April 2010
Milestone Finnish Presidency: ENoLL "First Wave" launch event in Helsinki Portuguese Presidency: ENoLL "Second Wave" launch event in Brussels French Presidency: ENoLL "Third Wave" launch event in Lyon and consolidation of the network Spanish Presidency: ENoLL “Fourth Wave” launch event in Valencia
How can I take part? Partnership Typically, a Living Lab site is based on a sustainable BusinessCitizens-Government-Academia Partnership and all sites welcome new organisations for discussion about partnership extension. If you consider yourself mainly as end-user (individual citizen) you may consider joining the site-specific end-user community. If you represent a private company, university, regional authority or other government organisation, you may contact the ENoLL Secretariat (info@enoll.org) for a discussion on how to join as a Living Lab partner with the objective to become sustainably engaged in its development and operations. Open Community - Let’s Meet Up! The Living Labs Open Innovation Community is the open forum for development of Living Lab services, supporting the Lisbon strategy for Growth and Jobs. Whether or not you belong to the network (as a Living Lab site) you are warmly welcome to join. Just click the “open innovation community” link at the web-site (www.openlivinglabs.eu/community.html) and follow the instructions. Being a true open community, we will organize and develop our community activities together. Let’s meet up!
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Mobile City Bregenz CEIT Living Lab evolaris Mobile LL iLab.o Virtual Services and Open Innovation Digital Spaces Living Lab Wirelessinfo LL Copenhagen LL Helsinki LL Turku Archipelago Agro LL Kainuu LL Lahti LL Northern Rural Urban LL Laurea LL network Digital LL Owela Open Web Lab HumanTech LL Living Lab for Design and Services Nokiareena LL - NALLI Suupohja LL Tampere Central Region LL TCR-LL ICT Usage Lab Quartier Numérique LEVIER Normandy LL Integrative Usage Lab (IUL) 3D Living Innovation TPMed Lab Issy-les-Moulineaux Medialand Autonom'IS Limousin Territories of Tomorrow Greater Paris Region Living Lab Mobile City Bremen Knowledge Workers LL VDC ViRaL Cooperation Lab Ambient Assisted Living Environment WILL - Workability & Innovation LL Experimental Factory Magdeburg iRegion Karlsruhe - creating the net economy Nuremberg Mobile Application Centre for Elderly & Disabled Lever inThessaloniki Thessaly LL LIFENET Györ Automotive Gödöllö Rural Creative Knowledge Centre LL Arc Labs Waterford Centre for Sustainable Technologies Frascati LL Trentino as a Lab ITL TLL Sicily C.LAB - Piedmont Community Labs FILAS - SPACE2LAND Lunigiana Amica Leaning Lab Telemedicine Living Lab Living Piemonte Euro-Mediterranean Initiative for Technology and Innovation LL Freeband experience lab Amsterdam LL The RECORD online LL Wireless Trondheim LL Madeira LL SJM-ILL Creative Media Lab RENER ECO LivingLab Living Labs Minho Lighting LL FIAPAL LL Slovenia eLivingLab ICT Techn. Network Slovenian automotive i2Cat Catalonia Dig.Lab Cudillero LL Soria LL eHealth LL Zaragoza LL LL Salud Andalucía Río Nacimiento LL InnovaLab Smart-Houses LL Madrid4Inclusion
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SENIORLAB - LL for Robotics in an Ageing Society Segovia Tech Living Lab Citilab Cornellà VILANOLAB. 22@LIVING LAB Barcelona Digital Cluster TIC guifi.net TCM Lab Experimental Centre of Ambient Intelligence Services & Applications Botnia LL Airport LL Innovation Cultures Malmö New Media LL The Swedish Living Lab on Vehicle and Transport ICT Halmstad LL LL Øresund Cyber Care Clinique Rotkreuz Swiss Open Laboratory for E Tourism (SOLET) Ecologies for learning in distributed project teams Manchester EastServe Digital Lifestyles Centre TRAIL Newtownabbey Scottish LL Cybermoor Birmingham Communities Building Capacity (CBC) Sunderland LL ConnectMK - LL for Milton Keynes Hull Service Transformatio Laboratory KWest Research Social Informatics Lab (SILab) Connected Nottingham
Ten non-European Associated Living Labs have been also selected within the scope of the Third Wave: Amazon Living Lab (Brazil), INdT- Well Being and Health Care LL + Mobile Work Spaces LL (Brazil), Inova Unicamp Innovation Agency (Brazil), Espírito Santo Cidadania Digital Living Lab (Brazil), TianJin-China Living Lab (China), Living Lab Maputo (Mozambique), Siyakhula Living Lab (South Africa), Sekhukhune Rural Living Lab (South Africa), Center for Technologies Of Ubiquitous Computing and Humanity, Taiwan (Taiwan), Living Lab Taiwan (Taiwan).
ENoLL Fourth Wave Living Labs Austria Croatia Cyprus Finland Finland France France France France France France France France France France France France France France Germany Germany Germany
Sound of Media LL Rijeka iLivingLab TLL Kypros OULLabs TWICT Digital Ardennes Imaginove’s Living Lab LiveWithRisk Paris Region Lab PATS – E2L e-Care Lab Erasme INNOVASUD RALL La Défense LL Lorraine Smart Cities CESARS DCC- LL New Media PoC LL DaiLL FZI Living Lab AAL Future Care Lab
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SMEDL Iceland LL eGSI EnerLab eToscana TG_LL WB@W IDeACT Prato TELL Research Innovation Centre X-LAB NGL-EN MiPlaza Fanoli Borg Innovation Living Lab TUR-LL Living Lab CDSF Águeda Living Lab Sport LL Lisboa SmartRural LL ISaLL Sustainable Construction A.R.C.H.E.S LENS Living Lab eHealthMadridLL QuesoAndaluciaLL TG Labs ADISMONTA GuadalhorceLL Integral LivingCAR Los Pedroches LL MENDINET (R)LL-País Románico AGDR Sierra de las Nieves Living Lab "La Serena" RuraisLAB Galicia Subbetica Cordobesa New Homes for Health Stockholm Living Lab SOFTEC UALL KarolinskaLL Food Living Lab MIBON ThinkLab RuralConnectNWLL
Fourfteen non-European Associated Living Labs have been also selected within the scope of the Fourth Wave: Amazonas LL (Brazil), Habitat (Brazil), BBILL (Brazil), Rio LL (Brazil), Group InterAction LL (Brazil), EDP/BrasilLL (Brazil), UrbanHub (Canada), MC2 (China), LLCM (China), CINTEL-La-Boquilla-CO (Colombia), ALL ISEG/Unidaf (Senegal), Smart Life Lab (Taiwan), TaipeiCVSLL (Taiwan), RoswellVoicesLL (USA).