OpenLivingLab Days

OpenLivingLab Days 2017 3.5

Since 2010, OpenLivingLab Days (OLLD) has become the annual gathering of the global Living Lab community. A space for public officials, companies, entrepreneurs, academics and innovators to connect and work together: To create new products and services, to set the basis for debate and exploration of theories, and to discuss and process policy recommendations within the practical elements of open and user-driven innovation. Through interactive panel discussions, hands-on workshops with leading experts and site visits to our local partners, OLLD offers an exclusive networking and knowledge sharing experience. The theme for 2017 was “Multiple Helix Innovation without Boundaries”

OLLD factsheet Edition: 8th Location: Krakow, Poland Local Host: Krakow Technology Park Dates: 29 August - 1 September Number of participants: ~300 Number of workshops: 27 Best paper award: Dropout in Living Lab Field Tests: A Contribution to the Definition and the Taxonomy

Pictured: (left) KTP Director giving a speech to the audience (right) during the opening session of OpenLivingLab Days

OpenLivingLab Days highlights

ENoLL signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Future Center Alliance Japan (FCAJ) based in Tokyo, Japan. The agreements seeks and carries out mutually beneficial activities for the advancement of social good and economic growth, open innovation and better collaboration among the companies, research organizations, universities, cities and regions and public sector organizations represented by the two organizations. ENoLL Council accepted a new innovation partner – Vandejong, a creative agency based in Amsterdam.

Welcoming new Vice Presidents to the ENoLL executive board. ENoLL Council members, Wim de Kinderen (Brainport Eindhoven) and Anna Ståhlbröst (Botnia Living Lab) have been elected as Vice Presidents. They will join Artur Serra (i2CAT) in their new role. The three Vice Presidents support the activities of the ENoLL President Tuija Hirvikoski. Veli-Pekka Niitamo award for best research paper was given to Abdolrasoul Habibipour, Annabel Georges, Dimitri Schuurman, Birgitta BergvallKareborn for their paper on “Drop-out in Living Lab Field Tests: A Contribution to the Definition and the Taxonomy”.

Main lessons learnt from OLLD17: • Never neglect the user knowledge • New mechanisms for co-creation processes such as Blockchain • Service design or design thinking are quite new approaches in Living Labs • Living labs are a vibrant international community • Living lab’s methodologies aim to create different outputs (product, service, business, process, cities), however, they are still perceived as a homogenous group • Living Labs can be seen from many different perspectives and might have different meaning for different people • Interaction and idea development and collaboration make OLLD participation and ENoLL membership worthwhile.

Learning Lab Launch

The ENoLL Learning Lab programme was officially launched at the OpenLivingLab Days in Krakow. The Learning Lab is an offering of training programmes and consultancy services for all stakeholders interested in Living Labs. Attendees in the Learning Lab programme do not require membership at ENoLL.

The three types of Learning Lab offerings are: 1) The Learning Lab programme: the Learning Lab programme brings together a “classroom” of Learning Lab mentees in learning more about Living Labs. The learning materials include also tailor-made content created in accordance with the current needs and wishes of the mentees. Day 0 – one-day training at OLLD is also included in this package. 2) Learning Lab consultancy: one-day event hosted by the client at a premise of their choice. The training is built together by the ENoLL office and a Living Lab expert from the network, answering to the needs of the client identified through a pre-consultancy interview. 3) Learning Lab consultancy: mentoring programme brings together an expert Living Lab and the client in a one-on-one mentoring programme. The client provides a brief upon which Living Lab experts from the network are forming their applications. The client may choose an applicant of their choice as a mentor for the programme.

In 2017, there were seven Learning Lab Mentees: 1. EPFL (Switzerland) 2. AREA (Italy) 3. Linnaeus University (Sweden) 4. Kamakura Living Lab (Japan) 5. ToBeVerona Living Lab (Italy) 6. ARIES Transilvania (Romania) 7. CMTO - Citta Metropolitana di Torino (Italy)

The Learning Lab training programme at the OpenLivingLab Days, deisgned by experts from Botnia Living Lab, included the following topics: - understanding what is a Living Lab - how to start and sustain a Living Lab - methods and tools in a Living Lab project - practical work with ENoLL applications