The governance agenda of Climate and Water Resilient Cities
Durk KROL Executive Director
About Water Europe WE are the recognized voice and promotor of water-related RTD and innovation in Europe. Recognized by the EC as European Technology Platform for Water Mission: Improve coordination and collaboration in the water sector and water using sectors; Enhance performance of the European water sector and water using sectors; Contribute to solving societal challenges through RTD&I. WE Strategy: WE Water Vision: ‘The Value of Water: towards a future-proof Water-Smart Society’.
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The Value of Water: Towards a Future-Proof Water-Smart Society Challenges: • Water efficiency • Pollution • Preparedness extreme events Uses: • Industrial • Domestic • Agricultural • Environmental Innovation concepts • Multiple Waters • Digital Water • Value in Water
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CUSTOMER Enduser
Living Labs concept Living labs are defined as “user-centred, open innovation ecosystems based on a systematic user co-creation approach in public-private-people partnerships, integrating research and innovation processes in real-life communities and settings” (ENOLL, 2013). Living Labs in Europe
Living Labs Principles
Cross-border cooperation across living labs have been strengthened by ENoLL/Nordic, NordForsk, Central European IberNoLL, and LL4WIDE. Between 20062011, many living labs related FP7-financed research projects documented living-lab set-up strategies by experimentation: CoreLabs, CLOCK, Collaboration@Rural, CoSpaces, Ecospace, Labornova, WearIT@Work, OpenFutures.
Openness – cross-fertilization, different levels of openness, and collaboration Distributed – distributed knowledge base, transparent distribution of values Influence – involvement of competent partners and domain experts Continuity – trust building and context-unique knowledge over projects and innovation cases Realism – testing and evaluation in users’ real-world environments Value –economic value of innovation outcomes and activities and ‘value in-use’ concept Sustainability – viability of a living lab Empowerment of users – motivation and creative ideation capabilities of user communities Spontaneity – spontaneous interaction, reaction, and ideation
Main Characteristics of European Living Labs Not separate legal entities, but entities hosted by commercial or non-commercial bodies. Collaborates with users who are mostly located in urban areas, not with communities. Operates on a project basis, without involving prolonged engagement with communities. Technological readiness of living labs is low to high maturity; whereas, commercial maturity of innovation in development is lower. Embedded in real and/or realistic environments, with ‘in-vivo’ monitoring of experimentation setting. Lack of standardization in organizing user involvement. Operational difficulties, i.e. network efficiency, sustainability, engagement with diversified community of users, fragmented service providers.
Water-Oriented Living Labs Definition of European Wateroriented Living Labs (WoLLs) 1
Demo-type and platform-type research and innovation settings, with context specific needs and enabling conditions
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Water-oriented interventions with a cross-sector nexus approach in real-world and/or realistic environments
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Proactive learning and innovation ecosystem with R&D continuity and reproducibility
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Open and local multi-stakeholder governance structure with democratic control systems
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