On the 27th (afternoon) we will organise a special Living Lab Speed Dating session for Research & Development & Innovation Matchmaking with an eye on the Horizon 2020 of the European Commission. Find out more…

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Why Manchester? Obvious choice, as Machester is notable for its architecture, culture, music scene, media links, scientific and engineering output, social impact and sporting connections. Manchester was the site of one of the world’s first railway stations, and the place where scientists first split the atom and developed the first stored-program computer. The City is served by two universities, including the largest single-site university in the UK, and has one of the country’s largest urban economies. Last but not least, Manchester is also the third-most visited city in the UK by foreign visitors.

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What is a Living Lab? 

It’s simple, a Living Lab is a real-life test and experimentation environment where users and producers co-create innovations in a trusted open ecosystem that enables business innovations.

 

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European Network of Living Labs is the international federation of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and worldwide. Founded in November 2006, the network has grown in ‘Waves’ up to this day. To this date, 6 Waves have been launched, resulting in over 300 accepted Living Labs. Summer School features the publication of the results of the 7th Wave! See more here.

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What is the Summer School about? ENoLL Living Lab Summer School includes several sessions, workshops, lively discussion panels and  on-site visits with the aim of giving the participants a wider insight about models, theories and technologies related to Living Labs and the opportunity to gain hands-on experience from the leading experts on the subject and to network with other Living Lab enthusiasts. On the final day of this years’ Summer School, we welcome the 7th Wave of new ENoLL members to the network, and hold a special plenary session on the World Wide Community of Open Living Labs, with the special participation of the World Bank.

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Connected Smart & Creative Cities is the theme of the 4^th ENoLL Living Lab Summer School 2013. Here you’ll meet with a wide set of initiatives that support the development of Connected and Creative Smart Cities in Europe such as EPIC, combining cloud computing with Future Internet technologies to provide cities with tools and possibilities for the creation and sharing of ‘smarter’ city services and the Creative Ring, bringing together wikipedians, digital artists, local media producers, fablabbers, arduins, new designers with universities, local authorities and ICT companies in European cities and regions. 

 

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What is the Research Day? We are pleased to invite submission of abstracts for presentation among other themes on Bottom-up Living Labs, Living Labs for Social Innovation, Service Design and User Experience, Tools and Methodologies for Living Labs, Living Labs and Smart Cities, Impact Assessment for Living Labs at the upcoming ENoLL 4th Living Lab Summer School Research Day on August 27th 2013 as part of the main programme of the Summer School. Read more…

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2 FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR!

Bridging the gap between RDI results and their use from micro to the most macro level through Living Labs.

The III ENoLL Summer School took place in Espoo and Helsinki from August 21th to 23rd, 2012. On Monday the 20th August there was a pre- summer school day for participants who wanted to present their research papers on Living Labs.

The theme for the pre-summer school was “Bridging the gap between RDI results and their use from micro to the most macro level through Living Labs”.

 

See the presentations here.

The Summer School provided participants an opportunity to test and develop the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators introduced “The Innovator’s DNA”:

• Associating – making connections across seemingly unrelated questions, problems, or ideas
• Questioning – a passion for inquiry
• Observing – carefully watch customers, technologies, firms, etc.
• Networking – find and test ideas through a diverse network of individuals
• Experimenting – try out new experiences and ideas

The event accommodated around 170 participants from Living Labs, enterprises, SMEs, municipalities and educational institutions around the World. The summer school therefore welcomed entrepreneurs, innovators, designers, consultants, researchers, local politicians, civil servants, professors and students to participate.

The Summer School had a multilevel approach to Living Labs, exploring both the micro level product development as well as the needs for designing macro level societal innovations and transformation. The summer school participants identified together, compared and developed methodologies and implementation toolkits used in Living Labs. The summer school highlighted the development and future opportunities of the Living Lab movement in bringing together the regional actors with the users, citizen communities, researchers and companies. The Europe 2020 strategy and its flagships such as the Digital Agenda and Innovation partnership were also the focus of the 3^rd summer school. Moreover, the summer school co-created methods and strategies on how the regions and the renewal of industries could benefit from the Living Labs approach and how the Living Labs, at the same time, can develop their business models and benefit from the EU funding instruments. For this purpose, practical Living Lab cases such as eHealth/eCare were elaborated during the Summer School.

In order to activate the use and commercialisation of Living Labs results and innovations, the Summer School invited participants to introduce their overlapping innovations to the companies and other Summer School participants. The participants were provided an opportunity to share and explore their experiences related to topics such as building a thematic Living Lab, building a territorial Living Lab, transforming a research organisation in to a Living Lab, building cross boarder Living Labs, or becoming a smart city.

During the three-day summer school, selected experts conducted different learning and innovation sessions. Presentations from previous Living Labs experiences and user driven cases were heard and opportunities for consortium building to address the EU funding instruments were organised. As a part of the Learning method in this summer school, excursions to the Living Labs related sites in the Helsinki metropolitan region were organised. In addition, the participants got familiar to the World Design Capital 2012 programme.

Laurea Living Labs Network was the host of this event with the support of its partners Aalto University and Forum Virium Helsinki. Laurea organised the III Summer School in collaboration with the European Network of Living Labs, Citilab Cornella, the AMI communities, ESoCe NET, Asian Smart Living Summer School.

0 LIVING LAB SPEED DATING

On the 27th (afternoon) we will organise a special Living Lab Speed Dating session for Research & Development & Innovation Matchmaking with an eye on the Horizon 2020 of the European Commission. Find out more…

0 WHAT DO WE DO?

European Network of Living Labs is the international federation of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and worldwide. Founded in November 2006, the network has grown in ‘Waves’ up to this day. To this date, 6 Waves have been launched, resulting in over 300 accepted Living Labs. Summer School features the publication of the results of the 7th Wave! See more here.