European Network of Living Labs Effective Members
iMinds iLab.o (BE) Flemish Living Lab Platform (BE) Northern Rural-Urban Living Lab (NorthRULL) (FI) Laurea Living Labs Network (FI) Human Tech Living Lab (FI) Suuntaamo Tampere Central Region Living Lab (FI)
Forum Virium Helsinki (Helsinki Living Lab) (FI) Ways of Learning for the Future (Wolf Living Lab) (FR)
eLiving Lab espaitec (ES) BIRD Living Lab (ES) Consorcio Fernando de Los Rios (ES)
Telecommunication Networks and Integrated Services Laboratory (TNS Living Lab) (EL)
Botnia Living Lab (SE)
Lightning Living Lab (PT)
City Lab Coventry (UK)
i2Cat Catalonia Digital Living Lab (ES)
Trentino as a Lab (IT)
Manchester Living Lab (UK)
1. Highlights from the year 2012 During the year 2012, ENoLL has worked both to continue its stable record of policy influencing, organizing events and creating networking opportunities, promoting Living Labs and explored new initiatives into ground breaking new areas of creativity, open data and in the mean time reinforcing already established linkages to areas such as health, active aging, social innovation and future internet. ENoLL has also enhanced web-based community building, and driven further national and international collaboration and joined into several new EU-funded project initiatives bringing benefits to its members. Much of the work of ENoLL, has had an impact in the EU debate and the report in your hands highlights just a few of these occasions when an event, policy paper or other initiative or activity has been a catalyst for further public debate or acted to support a new policy or funding initiative, all this in order to offer new opportunities to European Living Labs, SMEs and not forgetting the impact that Living Labs can have on the wider European research, development and innovation community.
IPR for Living Labs Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues are of growing importance to Living Lab environment, and therefore it was timely to organise an open workshop dedicate to these issues on January 27th. The workshop was organized jointly between ENoLL and the Apollon -project, which involves many ENoLL members. Some of the most pressing questions on IPR were identified as follows: • How do you deal with user-generated applications based on open data for smart cities? • How can you guarantee the sustainably? • How to facilitate idea ownership in a bottom up approach?
• How to deal with IPR in a cloud-service based environment? • How to protect SMEs and large industries sufficiently to collaborate together? How to deal with the results?
ENoLL Office
As experts, ENoLL had the pleasure to invite Ms. Catarina D'Araujo, who has extensive experience in IP in the framework of EU funded projects (e.g. FP7 and CIP) from the IPR Helpdesk. and Mr. Hans Bracquené, with extensive knowledge on the negotiation and drafting of R&D agreements, license agreements, creation of spin-offs, with a special emphasis on the rules applicable to international and national government funding of innovation (EU Framework Program, ESA, Eureka).
Networking Support
The workshop was recorded and published on the ENoLL Vimeo channel. Presentations are available on openlivinglabs.eu.
ENoLL Office supports its members by organizing networking events, thematic workshops to exchange information and best practice. The office also engages in different activities that promote ENoLL network members to external partners.
Policy Influencing ENoLL signs an MoU with the World Bank On July 10, the ENoLL signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Bank. The agreement was signed by Jose Luis Irigoyen, World Bank Director for Transport, Water, and Information and Communication Technologies, and Álvaro Oliveira, representing the ENoLL President, Jarmo Eskelinen. The agreement between the World Bank and ENoLL will bring unprecedented global expertise in the area of ICT to help the World Bank and its clients improve public services, increase civic participation, advance public administrative capacity, and drive green growth. And it will help the two institutions further in their shared goal of finding new approaches to improving the public services that affect the everyday lives of millions of people in developing countries. The collaboration agreements can be found at openlivinglabs.eu.
ENoLL Office supports to influence EU policies and engages in debate with EU institutions and takes part in EU Consultations. Office also acts as a partner in EU-funded projects of strategic importance and benefit to the whole network.
EU-funding for Innovation ENoLL Office supports to influence EU policies and engages in debate with EU institutions and takes part in EU Consultations. Office also acts as a partner in EUfunded projects of strategic importance and benefit to the whole network.
