Highlighted events

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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.

Workshop series “Bridging European 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. 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 digital innovation and living

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”.

ENoLL at Smart City Word Congress, Casablanca

On 17-18 May the second edition of Smart City Expo Casablanca took place under the motto “Cities by all” as a reference milestone to foster a sustainable and innovative urban management for the development of cities in Morocco and Africa. Juan Bertolin (espaitec Living Lab) spoke at the event on behalf of ENoLL during the session titled “Entrepreneurship and Start-up Ecosystems” elaborating on the role of Living Labs in local ecosystems. Living Lab representatives from Gate 21 and i2cat also shared their experience.

Belgian Living Lab Day

On 9 May, the Belgian living lab community together with ENoLL organised the first Belgian Living Lab Day. We have seen interactive workshops and discussions and exchange of knowledge and methodologies during the day. Hosted by Atrium brussels and co-organised by ENoLL, imec, Wallonia e-Health Living Lab and Living Labs in Wallonia the event was a major success and will be repeated. Facebook and LinkedIn communities have been created for those interested in work of Belgian living labs.

Sofia Innovation Camp

ENoLL President and Association Manager were invited to join the Sofia Innovation Camp in Bulgaria in March 2017 and share their knowledge on creating innovative solutions facilitated by and through Living Labs. At the two-day event they were presented with three city, national and global level challenges with the aim to create a model for citizens, firms, civil servants and researchers to define common challenges, co-create and experiment solutions and create a bottom up policy agenda as a legacy for the next presidency.

Open Innovation 2.0 conference

Following the the Sofia Innovation Camp ENoLL President and Association Manager have joined the Cluj Innovation camp and were joined by Council members and ENoLL Office at the Open Innovation 2.0 Conference taking place in June 2017 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. At the conference, Tuija Hirvikoski chaired a session on societal transformation and a discussion table on living labs together with Zsuzsanna Bodi. At the booth area ENoLL presented iSCAPE, EUMACS, SynchroniCity and OrganiCity projects to the visitors who were curious to know more about the role of living labs in society.

Nordic Smart Cities

Teemu Santonen spoked at the Noric Smart City event on belahf of ENoLL President. He also presented the publication “Cities as Living Labs increasing the impact of investment in the circular economy” written jointly by ENoLL and Laurea University.

Reveal of the RISE Book: Europe’s future: Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World

On 15 May 2017, a high level event with Commissioner Carlos Moedas was held where the new book of the high level expert group of Research, Innovation and Science Policy Experts (RISE) was presented. ENoLL Council Member Joëlle Mastelic from Energy Living Lab joined the discussion on mobility - discussing mobility changes from a living lab point of view. Energy Living Lab has been working on a project of autonomous shuttle busses to test and improve traffic and fleet-managing algorithms.

ENoLL President at the Open Innovation & Open Science conference in Barcelona

Tuija Hirvikoski, spoke at the “Open innovation & Open Science” conference organised by Generalitat de Catalunya about the new paradigm of science and open innovation. In the words of Ms Hirvikoski “it was a productive day, learning how the transition from industrial era towards digital citizen centric society takes place. From traditional knowledge transfer towards co-creation, experimentation and open innovation 2.0”.

ENoLL active in Geneva during the IoT week

In June 2017, ENoLL Office representatives participated at the IoT week to present two projects: SynchroniCity, a large-scale pilot on urban IoT-enabled services and U4IoT, a support action on co-creation.

How Living Labs transform cities

At the European Week of Regions and Cities in September 2017 during the session on Urban Living Labs, ENoLL President Tuija Hirvikoski (Laurea Living Lab) presented the possibilities Living Labs offer for transforming complex urban challenges and development through Urban Living Labs.

Responding to the 3Os strategy: a co-creation workshop

This unique workshop taking place in October 2017 brought together ENoLL experts and likeminded organisations to create a roadmap for the future of Europe with the use of Living Labs that is aligned with the 3Os strategy. Result of the workshop was preparation of the Manifesto for Innovation in Europe.

Living Labs at the Global Science, Technology & Innovation Conference Living Labs at the centre of Smart Cities

With Living Labs from Adelaide, Poznan, Taiwan and i2Cat, imec, DigiArt, Laurea Living Lab discussion sessions was held on how Living Labs contribute to Sustainable Development Goals at the GSTIC event in Brussels. ENoLL also had a booth where participants were able to find more information on the network and its activities. Living Labs are at the centre of Smart Cities as it was seen during the Smart City Expo in Barcelona. ENoLL Office representatives spoke about their role to the delegation of Smart Flanders and promoted SynchroniCity the Open Call for SMEs. SynchroniCity is a project for smart cities looking for IoT solutions improving city life in Europe and beyond.

Pictured: ENoLL representatives at the G-STIC with event organisers