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ENoLL Activity Report 2017
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Strategic Achievements
Strategic Achievements Tightening collaboration with Australian and Korean peers
Expanding Living Lab movement to Croatia: at the Zagreb forum
ENoLL President Tuija Hirvikoski spoke at the Aging Well Conference in Adelaide and visited Ageing Well Living Lab and residential area. She introduced the European concept of Cities as Living Labs at the Korean Daegu Creative City Forum and thus opened new channels for collaboration.
ENoLL Director Zsuzsanna Bodi presented examples on Living Labs that are supporting entrepreneurship in cities while Bror Salmelin who is leading the Open Innovation movement, spoke on the matter of innovative urban ecosystems and how these are linked to Living Labs.
Collaboration with business sector
Joint Hearing on “Cities as Actors of Open Innovation”
A strategic meeting with a car-manufacturing producer Volkswagen took place in October On 28 June, the Joint Hearing on “Cities as 2017 to explore possibilities of collaboration Actors of Open Innovation” took place in and the potential of mobility Living Labs. Brussels. One of the key presentations of the event was delivered by Teemu Santonen and delved into circular economy and Cities Making new connections at the ICT as Living Labs. Such analysis was based on a proposers day tender work carried out by an international team of experts: Laurea University of The networking event centred on European Applied Sciences, The Council of European ICT Research & Innovation with a special Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) and ENoLL. focus on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme The study “Cities as Living Labs: Increasing for 2018-20. ENoLL representatives searched the impact of investment in the circular for potential partnerships and applicants economy for sustainable cities” is available via for SynchroniCity project’s Open Call. ENoLL EU Bookshop on http://bookshop.europa.eu. Office also met with new potential partners to explore projects ENoLL members can work on.
