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ENoLL Activity Report 2017
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Highlighted Events ENoLL Community at the Connected Smart Cities Conference
ENoLL President jury member at the EYIF Inno Apps Challenge
On 12 January, ENoLL joined the Connected Smart Cities conference, not only as a participant and an exhibitor but also as an organiser of the session on Innovation Ecosystems. The session was split into four thematic groups - each led by a Living Lab expert. Representatives of the following Living Labs facilitated the sessions: imec, Eindhoven, Botnia and Basaksehir Living Lab.
Tuija Hirvikoski was one of the jury members at the pan-European competition to develop innovative apps for Smart Cities. The challenge encourages young people to build groundbreaking solutions to improve social inclusion and foster the development of decentralised innovation ecosystems in Europe. It took place on 9 February in Brussels, Belgium.
Bristol as a city-wide test bed for Workshop series “Bridging European digital innovation and living Urban Transformations” In February 2017, ENoLL President Tuija Hirvikoski spoke at the introductory session of the workshop titled “Experimenting with Urban Living Labs (ULLs) beyond Smart CityRegions”. ULLs exemplified by networks such as ENoLL, foreground projects that present active user involvement, real-life settings, multi-stakeholder participation, multimethod approaches and co-creation. As a President of ENoLL, Ms Hirvikoski weighted in on the Urban Living Labs of ENoLL and cocreating methods developed in Living Labs.
At the ‘Creating a city-wide test bed for digital innovation’ workshop hosted by the City of Bristol City Council and the University of Bristol in the capital of Europe, Association Manager of ENoLL has spoken about “Cities as Living Labs and Large Scale experimentations for Digital Innovation” and Bror Salmelin from OISPG about “Ecosystems and value constellations as innovation enablers”.
