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Highlighted events
18 ENoLL Activity Report 2018 3.2
To promote the Open Innovation principles and the Living Lab methodology in which users are at the centre of innovation, ENoLL representatives have been busy speaking at key European and global events. In this section, you can find a few highlighted events of 2018. Networking event: Mediterranean Innovation comes to Brussels: bringing creative minds together (May) ENoLL (as a partner in TALIA) with the support of Creative Ring, held a networking event in Brussels aimed at triggering cross-border project collaboration and knowledge exchange between two creative communities of practice: the Med Creative Community and the Belgian Creative ecosystem. Inspired by Kristel Van Ael’s System Design methodology, participants cocreated a set of preliminary project proposals as a first step towards future collaboration. Smart Cities Global Summit Algeria (June) Tuija Hirvikoski (then ENoLL Chairman), joined Mayors, Government Leaders and thought leaders to speak at the Smart Cities Global Summit in Algeria. Creating the smart cities of the future was the focal point of the conference. Moscow Urban Forum (July) In July 2018 Tuija Hirvikoski (Laurea Living Labs) was invited to speak at the Moscow Urban Forum under the title “Megacity of the Future. New Space for Living”. She presented leading Finnish examples as well as good practice examples from ENoLL at the session “City as a living lab. Testing technologies for the future cities”. Next to that, she spoke about urban development and the importance of Living Labs in front of an audience that combined representatives of Russian and foreign city administrations, architects, urban developers, heads of finance companies and investors. iSCAPE Summer School: Air Quality Sensing and Approaches for Mitigation (September) Between 17th-18th September, European research and innovation project – iSCAPE (Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe) of which ENoLL is a partner, has organised a Summer School under the title Air Quality Sensing and Approaches for Mitigation using Smart Solutions and Citizen
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engagement. Aim of the Summer School was to broaden awareness of air pollution and ways to control it. During the event, current and future air pollution mitigation activities were presented, providing an opportunity to participants to interact with the work of iScape.
CoCo Toolkit workshop at the Nordic Edge (September)
ENoLL team was at the Nordic Edge conference & expo, running a workshop within the scope of UNaLab project titled Co-creating smart naturebased liveable spaces – necessary solutions for real life challenges. The workshop which was held on 26th September was co-organised with ERRIN, Eindhoven, Stavanger Region EU Office and Northern Cities Netherlands. We used the CoCo toolkit methodology which was developed by ENoLL Member Laurea University and allowed an interactive session for all participants.
European Week of Regions and Cities (October)
The European Week of Regions and Cities is an annual four-day event during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance. The 2018 edition of the event was held in Brussels between 8-11 October.
ENoLL was actively engaged in several sessions. We co-organised a session on “Crossborder co-creation Living Laboratories for Local development” with the Metropolitan City of Turin, joined “Investing in the economical and digital transition of cities
and communities” as SynchroniCity partners and participated in sessions we identified as relevant for the Living Lab community; such as “How to Support the Participation of Mobile EU Citizens in Local Communities”.
During the session co-organised with the Metropolitan City of Turin the panelists (including ENoLL Chairman Fernando Vilariño and ENoLL Director Zsuzsanna Bodi) discussed how co-creation can improve the definition and implementation of local and cross-border development policies. Living Labs were presented as a methodology which can be used for participative territorial development on multiple levels and the audience was invited to weight in on the challenges they found most important with regards to cross-border cooperation.
TALIA International Seminar in Palermo (October)
The Interreg MED Programme’s Social & Creative Community gathered in Palermo on 19 October to participate in a relevant International Seminar at the CreZi.Plus cultural centre, organised by the European Network of Living Labs within the TALIA (Territorial Appropriation of Leading-edge Innovation Actions) horizontal project. The main objective of the TALIA International Seminar was to increase transnational activities of innovative clusters and networks in the MED area. During the event, Modular Projects shared best practices and joined a co-creation session where they contributed to improve the TALIA Innovation Model for all the Social & Creative Community.
Cluj Innovation Camp (October)
ENoLL Director Zsuzsanna Bodi and Chairman Fernando Vilariño joined the co-creation camp for the city of Cluj in Romania. By using the Innovation Camp methodology, promoted by Hank Kune, Bror Salmelin and others in a two days long sprint three challenges presented by the city of Cluj were tackled: Education for the Future of Work; Impact Romania and Innovation Cluj–Napoca Manifesto. After the two days sprint the groups presented their prototypes calls for action to the Mayor of ClujNapoca Mr Emil Boc. Having a member of ours – Transilvania Living Lab – in the heart of this eager ecosystem, we are keen on supporting by matchmaking and sharing knowledge on a pan-European and transnational level.
Regional Living Lab Summit (October)
“Bridging Innovation Between East & West” was the appropriately chosen theme for the first Regional Living Lab Summit celebrated in Istanbul on the 25th and 26th of October 2018. Hosted in cooperation by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, the Başakşehir Municipality and the Başakşehir Living Lab, the summit provided opportunities to strengthen the innovation ecosystem for the MENA and Balkan region. During the two days, panel discussions on the role of innovation ecosystems in regional development where combined with presentations from successful regional SMEs which benefited or began within a Living Lab environment. The ENoLL network was present officially through the opening conference remarks by its Chairman, Fernando Vilariño. He highlighted the important role that municipalities and
cities can continue to play in fostering innovation ecosystems and the opportunities it presents for connecting as a region.
Lego Serious Play workshop at European Space Agency event (November)
ENoLL teamed up with Transilvania Living Lab at the Phi week event in Rome, organized by the European space agency. The event ran from 12th to 16th November. In this collaborative workshop we explored the potentials of Earth Observation data and other space technologies in better planning the future of our cities. Through Lego serious play, 3D models were built of dystopian cities – which were then transformed to future utopian cities, tapping in to the great amount knowledge of the participants.
For the second consecutive time, ENoLL joined the Global Sustainable Technology & Innovation conference (G-STIC). With the aim to facilitate the world-wide implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), G-STIC helps accelerate technological transitions towards SDGs by promoting collaboration among technology stakeholders and bridging the gap between technology and policy making. As ENoLL is an organisation that is committed to SDGs, ENoLL Director Zsuzsanna Bodi was invited to speak at the closing session of the conference, under the topic “Looking forward to G-STIC 2019”.
Fair of European Innovators (November)
We joined the Fair of European innovators in cultural heritage on 15 and 16 November 2018, in Brussels. The two-day event was organized by the European Commission DG RTD with EAC and DG CONNECT which which we have closely collaborated on several occasions. Aim of the event was to promote the connection between Community of Innovators and to discuss the next steps of the EU Action Plan on Cultural Heritage. Some of the challenges that were highlighted at the event, are the importance to understand the barriers of using tools for municipalities and governments. It is also vital to forge trust between creative organisations and governments, which can be done with new governance models.
Living Labs and Smart Cities workshop in Seoul Korea (November) ENoLL Chairman Fernando Vilariño was invited by the Fredrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), and the Korea Local Information, Research and Innovation Development Institute (KLID) to speak at the Living Labs and Smart Cities workshop held in Seoul, Korea between 28-30 November. The visit strengthened collaboration with Korean Living Lab practitioners and affirmed that the technology driven approach contributing to create test-beds for innovative solutions appear as one of the consolidated mechanisms in Smart Cities all over the globe.
Place-making for Innovation at La Marina Living Lab (November)
On 15 and 16 November, ENoLL was invited to La Marina de Valencia, Spain for the Place-making for Innovation event, a three-day international co-creation workshop were urban practitioners and innovators from all across Europe and beyond came together to explore the role of that Living Labs and place-making can have in the historic harbour of the city of Valencia. The event was part of the broader La Marina Living Lab (LMLL) initiative, an urban Living Lab that seeks to engage citizens in the transformation of the public space. LMLL was born in collaboration with our fellow Australian colleagues from ALLIN. ENoLL Chair Fernando Vilariño opened the three-day session by introducing the ENoLL Community and its vision to La Marina to support LMLL on its Living Lab journey.
Activities and events organised with the European Commission
Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) meetings OSPP is a group that advises the Commission on how to develop open science policy. ENoLL Chairman from 2015-2018, Tuija Hirvikoski, has been representing ENoLL in the group whose mandate is to support European Commissioner Carlos Moedas how to further develop and practically implement open science policy, support policy formulation and implementation as well as provide advice and recommendations on any cross-cutting issue affecting Open Science. In 2018 the group discussed a paper on Citizen science, presented and adopted recommendations for the embedding of open science and prepared an integrated advice on 8 prioritised Open Science ambitions.
European Social Innovation Competition events (EUSIC) is a challenge prize run by the European Commission and supported by a consortium of partners including ENoLL. The 2018 edition of the Competition was titled RE:THINK LOCAL. The aim was to find the most innovative projects, products, services, business models and collaborations that empower young people to participate fully in a changing economy. ENoLL involved several local mentors from Living Labs across Europe to support the semifinalists through their development process and provide them with specialized assistance. Next to that, ENoLL brought on board judges and assessors from the ENoLL community. The final event of the competition was organised in Brussels in November.
