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[edit] ENoLL and Future Internet

13-14 April 2010, Valencia, Spain

Public announcement of the 4th wave of new Living Labs members by the European Commission and the Spanish Presidency. ENoLL event for linking Future Internet and Living Labs communities.

More information and registration...

[edit] CO-LLABS workshop ICE 2010 Living Labs Fostering SME Innovation in Regions

21-23 June 2010, Lugano, Italy

The final CO-LLABS workshop will take place at the ICE 2010 Conference in Lugano. During the first day, 21st June, CO-LLABS will host a scientific session related to Living Labs, Entrepreneurship and SME innovation. A call for papers will be issued. On the second day, 22 June, the actual workshop will take place. More information will follow soon.

[edit] Smart Cities Networking

26 January 2010, Brussels, Belgium

EUROCITIES, Living Labs and Future Internet Communities Networking for CIP-ICT-PSP proposals development

The objective of this meeting is to facilitate EUROCITIES, Living Labs and Future Internet communities networking to discuss upcoming project opportunities related to the Smart Cities call of CIP (ICT-PSP). For more information see the draft 2010 Work Programme, Theme 4 Objective 4.1: Open Innovation for Future Internet Enabled Services in Smart Cities.

More information and registration...

[edit] FIRE week

1-3 July 2009, Lulea, Sweden

The FIRE week (FIRE: Future Internet Research and Experimentation initiative, http://www.ict-fireworks.eu) will take place from 1st to 3rd July 2009 in Lulea, Sweden. According to the emphasis given to the role of experimentally-driven research, the FIRE week will dedicate specific discussion spaces to Living Labs: a tentative programme is available (http://www.future-internet.eu/uploads/media/CDT_FIREweekLivingLabs_20090701.pdf) with Living Labs workshops foreseen to allow the FIRE community, the Living Labs community, the EC and other subjects to meet and exchange experiences and get new knowledge in a creative and innovative environment.

For more information:


click here for an overview on Living Labs workshops at the FIRE week in Lulea

[edit] ICE 2009

22-24 June 2009, Leiden, The Netherlands

Event theme: Collaborative Innovation: Emerging Technologies, Environments and Communities

The International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising (ICE conference) is a premier forum to enable practitioners, researchers as well as tool vendors to present, demonstrate and share the results and achievements of their work in the broad domain of Concurrent Enterprising.

The 15th edition of the ICE conference takes place in Leiden (NL) from 22nd to 24th June 2009 and it is focused on the following topics:

Information about the ICE 2009 Workshops:


ICE2009 Conference website

ICE2009 Conference workshops click here for an overview on Living Labs track at ICE 2009

ICE2009 Conference registration

[edit] High Level Event on ICT for Energy Efficiency

19th-20th March 2009, Brussels, Belgium

Venue: Charlemagne Building, 170 Rue de la Loi (Wetstraat), BE-1049 Brussels | click here for how to get there

The High Level Event on ICT for Energy Efficiency (ICT4EE), organised by the EC's Information Society and Media Directorate-General in cooperation with the Czech Presidency of the EU, will take place at Brussels' Charlemagne Building from 19th to 20th March 2009.

A broad attendance is expected from policy and business decision-makers in the field of ICT for Energy Efficiency as well as from researchers, engineers and Living Labs members.

The User Driven Innovation methodology Living Labs are based on allows to experiment and co-create new solutions and working partnerships: ICT-based innovations are essential to provide the tools that enable business and citizens to really begin the process of reducing their energy and carbon footprints, nevertheless the ICT sector cannot do it alone. A systematic involvement of citizens and stakeholders is necessary, as outlined by ENoLL (the European Network of Living Labs) in the various initiatives carried on in the recent years, to reach concrete results and outcomes.

The presence of Living Labs and ENoLL at ICT4EE includes a demonstration space (Stand N21, Second Floor - Exhibit Area).

For more information: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict4ee/2009/index_en.htm

Registration: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict4ee/2009/register/index_en.htm

[edit] Open System of Living Labs Communities Foundational Meeting

Friday, 16th January 2009, 09:00-18:00 hrs, Brussels

Venue: IBBT iLab.o, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium | click here for how to get there 


       Foundation of the ENoLL legal entity as a non profit International 
       Association under Belgian law (AISBL).
       
       The objective of this meeting is to facilitate the transition of the 
       current Living Lab Community in an Open System of Living Labs 
       Communities, centered around the ENoLL legal entity as a non profit 
       International Association under Belgian Law (AISBL). The specific 
       objective is to share the Mission and Charter for Network Services, 
       Governance and Sustainability of the European Network of Living Labs and 
       to invite all current ENoLL members to become founding members of the 
       ENoLL AISBL.
       click here for the agenda

The Open System of Living Labs Communities Foundational Meeting is co-organised by ENoLL (the European Network of Living Labs) and CO-LLABS.

ENoLL and CO-LLABS have also organised on 15 Jan the Living Labs Community Networking and CIP/FP7 proposals development event (see below).

For registering see ENoLL and CO-LLABS Events January 2009.

[edit] Living Labs Community Networking and CIP/FP7 proposals development

Thursday, 15th January 2009, 09:00-18:00 hrs, Brussels

Venue: IBBT iLab.o, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium | click here for how to get there 


       The objective of this meeting is to facilitate Living labs community 
       networking and discuss upcoming project opportunities related to living 
       labs methodologies in the calls of CIP (ICT-PSP) especially Theme 8 Open 
       Innovation, user experience and living labs and FP7/ICT Future 
       Internet Experiment Facility and Experimentally driven Research 
       (coordination and support actions).
       click here for the agenda

The Living Labs Community Networking and CIP/FP7 proposals development event is co-organised by ENoLL (the European Network of Living Labs) and CO-LLABS.

ENoLL and CO-LLABS have also organised on 16 Jan the Open System of Living Labs Communities Foundational Meeting (see above).

[edit] LL Information Event

Wednesday, 14th January 2009, 10:30-17:30 hrs, Brussels

Venue: European Commission, Conference Center Albert Borschette (CCAB), room 0A, rue Froissart 36, 1040 Brussels

The European Commission (Information Society and Media Directorate-General, New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities) is organising a Living Labs Information Event, to be held in Brussels on Wednesday, 14 January 2009. This event will provide opportunities to exchange Living Labs related information, potentially relevant in the context of the 7th Framework Programme (4th and 5th Calls for Proposals) and for the 3rd call of the ICT Policy Support Programme, all foreseen for 2009. Registration to the event is mandatory.

Details on programme, venue and registration are available at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/livinglabs/index_en.htm

For more information:

http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/2008/11/ll-information-event.html http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/news.cfm?redirection=1&item_type=calendar&tpa_id=150

[edit] Industrial Forum 2008

1st December 2008, Conference Centre, NH Leonardo Da Vinci, Via Dei Gracchi, 324, Rome

Event theme: Open Innovation in advanced service-product development & in Collaborative Clusters

Open/Collective Innovation is being recognized as the crucial competitive leverage for European industry sustainability and the only feasible approach to address the societal challenges of the global competition and markets.

The ESoCE-Net Industrial Forum 2008 event aims at offering an opportunity to Industrial players from different market sectors and from different European Regions to Regional Development Agencies and local Government Bodies to discuss and learn how to mix the three main ingredients for regional success: Collaboration, Competitiveness and Innovation. The idea is to confront challenges, strategies and experiences, to discuss emerging issues and opportunities from the deployment of new methods and approaches for Regional Innovation, starting from space based technology sectors and extending the available practices to other economic and industrial contexts. The ESoCE-Net Industrial Forum 2008 is a one day event, organized into two sessions:

  • a morning session, built around a panel of representatives from major international enterprises, SME’s Clusters, Professional Associations and Policy makers, providing their own view on the emerging practices for Open-Collective Innovation
  • an afternoon session, organised in 3 parallel workshops:
* Demand Creation Mechanisms in Space Based Technology Clusters [1]
* Enterprise Interoperability and Collaboration Vision and Barriers [2]
* Living Labs and relevant innovation ICT enabled processes [3]

The event will be closed by a plenary session, aiming at summarising findings and discussing opportunities of launching joint initiatives.

Introduction Programme Venue Registration

[edit] ICT 2008

25-27 November 2008, Lyon, France

Event theme: "I"s to the future: invention - innovation - impact

ICT 2008 is Europe's biggest research event for information and communication technologies. Event themes are:

Inventing the Future: ICT technologies for the future
Innovative Europe: new markets, new sectors, new players
Impact through Policy

ICT 2008 Conference website

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ICT 2008 Workshops

Room: Saint Clair 3B

European large scale Living Labs Pilots and Best Practices

Collaborating LL can create critical mass and impact to address societal challenges. Emerging pilots will cover several areas identified by CO-LLABS as the most promising ones to care about needs of today’s and tomorrow’s citizens: among them, e-Health and sustainable energy & intelligent traffic are lead markets that deserve a special attention. The results coming from the experience of the currently active Living Labs (51 LLs have already joined ENoLL in the two waves launched so far) have been analyzed and, further to the identification of the winning factors and of the critical points, Best Practices have been derived and proposed specifically to the Living Labs community (the current ENoLL members plus new emerging entities) and to the Open Innovation communities in general.

  • 3. Networking session (N.79) - Day 2, 26 November, 16h00-17h30

Room: Saint Clair 3A

Living Labs Policies and Future Infrastructures

Living Labs are becoming a significant Europe-wide initiative. A Living lab Roadmap 2007-2008 has been developed, focusing on policy, infrastructure and research priorities to create networked systems for open, user driven research, development and innovation across Europe. This session aims to engage a thorough reflection on how to support further necessary developments, in particular establishing policy conditions for European Living Labs innovation and initiating next initiatives to strengthen the living labs infrastructures to enable user centric research and innovation, in order to ensure a consistent growth and sustainability of such living labs innovation environments across Europe. This session will be a wide debate inviting key stakeholders from the policy side, namely from all relevant DG's from the EC, as well as from the LL side, in order to present their own view from their specific responsibility domain, with the concern of addressing the issue from a global perspective.

[edit] OPEN DAYS 2008

6-9 October 2008, Brussels, Belgium

Event theme: Innovating regions, Sustainable development, Cooperation and networking, Looking forward

OPEN DAYS 2008 "European Week of Regions and Cities" is the biggest annual gathering of EU and regional policy-makers, experts and representatives of banking, business and civil society groups operator in the regional policy sector.

OPEN DAYS 2008 Conference website

OPEN DAYS 2008 Workshops

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Open Innovation Living Lab Community is organizing a strong presence animating with real life demonstrations the Creative Knowledge Society Village :

  • 1) Northern Rural-Urban Living Laboratory, FI
  • 2) Slovenia Living Lab, SI
  • 3) TRAIL Living Lab@ University of Ulster, UK
  • 4) TLL Sicily, IT
  • 5) Wirelessinfo, CZ
  • 6) eHealthLL: eHealth Living Lab for Teleassistance & Home Hospitalization, ES
  • 7) Frascati Living Lab, IT
  • 8) Arc Labs Waterford, IE
  • 9) Nutrition & Biotech Kainuu LL, FI

[edit] ENoLL 2008

21-22 August, 2008, Kainuu Living Lab - Snowpolis, Vuokatti, Finland

First Annual ENoLL meeting

A two-day seminar with highlights the latest trends in eHealth, wellbeing, sport, and tourism will be held at Kainuu Living Lab - Snowpolis on August 21st-22nd, 2008. Snowpolis, the conference venue, is an international technology park, a member of ENoLL: main fields are sport, nutrition and winter technologies. In wellbeing technology, several product development and testing projects are going on. Physical condition check-up station is a good example.

In Snowpolis, there are several university units doing research in sport technology. The units are part of University of Jyväskylä and University of Oulu. 28 different companies have their offices in Snowpolis including the wellness hotel where the conference participants have their accommodation.

First Annual ENoLL meeting - Snowpolis

www.openlivinglabs.eu

[edit] ICE 2008

23-25 June 2008, Lisboa, Portugal

Event theme: A new wave of innovation in Collaborative Networks

The ICE conference is a premier forum to enable practitioners, researchers as well as tool vendors to present, demonstrate and share the results and achievements of their work in the broad domain of Concurrent Enterprising.

ICE2008 Conference website

ICE'2008 CWE track special sessions and workshop sessions 24 and 25 June 2008

[edit] Slovenian Living Labs Event

7-8 April 2007, Brussels, Belgium

Upcoming Slovenian Presidency event organised in Brussels. More information you will find here.

[edit] Industrial Forum 2007

3rd December 2007, Conference Centre, Jolly Hotel Leonardo Da Vinci, Via Dei Gracchi, 324, Rome

Event theme: CO-CREATIVE INNOVATION IN SERVICE-PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

The Industrial Forum event, to be held in Rome on December 3rd 2007, aims at offering an opportunity to Industrial players from different market sectors and from different European Regions and to Regional Development Agencies and local Government Bodies to discuss and learn how to mix the three main ingredients for regional success: Collaboration, Competitiveness and Innovation. The idea is to confront challenges, strategies and experiences, to discuss emerging issues and opportunities from the deployment of new methods and approaches for Regional Innovation: Living Labs and Professional Communities supporting cluster’s creativity and innovation.

The Industrial Forum is a one-day event, structured into two sessions:

  • a morning session, built around a panel of representatives from major international enterprises, SME’s Clusters, Professional Associations and Policy makers, providing their own view on the emerging practices for Open-Collective Innovation
  • an afternoon session, organised in 3 parallel workshops, one on best in class solutions for Governance, Business models and enabling ICT in collaborative clusters, the second focusing on the technologies and solutions for enhancing the co-creativity in Living Labs in real life business cases, and the third on Intercluster collaboraton for space based technology services.

The event will be closed by a plenary session, aiming at summarising findings and discussing opportunities of launching joint initiatives.

Introduction Programme Venue Registration

[edit] First Annual Leiden Workshop on Open Innovation

29 November 2007, Leiden, The Netherlands

Free Discovery (Hogeschool Leiden) and Living Lab Leiden are very pleased to invite you to the First Annual Leiden Workshop on Open Innovation, which will take place November 29th, 2007 (from 10.00H to 17.00H).

This event, which will be held at Hogeschool Leiden, will convene many interesting people, such as local and regional SMEs, other companies, participants from the Free Discovery projects and the Living Lab IPC project, local and regional policy makers, academics, the European Network of Living Labs and many others.

The Workshop on Open Innovation will be a very interesting chance to meet all these people working on the same topics. And together share, discuss and work on concrete projects that happen in the Leiden region and on capabilities for open innovation. Many interesting speakers are invited as well. This event will provide you an exceptional opportunity to learn more about and take part in innovative activities taking place in The Netherlands and particularly in the region of Leiden.

Come to Leiden the 29th of November and see what Free Discovery and the Living Lab Leiden can do for you! You can:

The number of seats is limited so please register before November 15! You will receive more information together with the final program during November. We hope to welcome you in Leiden the 29th of November!

Costs: Free but (online) registration is compulsary

Nbr of Seats: 120

Community: Living Lab, Leiden Author: Benoit Dutilleul benoit.dutilleul@livinglab.nl

[edit] European Network of Living Labs & Open Innovation mid-October events

16-17 October 2007, Brussels, Belgium,

The registration is now open for the key Living Labs events of this autumn, on 16th & 17th October 2007 in Brussels. More information you will find here.

[edit] ISL2007 - 12th International Symposium on Logistics

8-10 July 2007, Budapest, Hungary

More information is available here "ISL2007 - 12th International Symposium on Logistics"

[edit] "FP7 - ICT partnering event"

5 July 2007, Budapest, Hungary

More information is available here "FP7 - ICT partnering event"

[edit] 2nd EACE "e-Working Environments" Workshop

22 June 2007, Berlin, Germany

The EACE European project develops policy recommendations for the European Commission to expedite the adoption of collaborative working environments. Towards this end, EACE evaluated existing collaboration patterns and tools, and consolidated research results by identifying best practices, developing a theoretical framework of human collaboration and verifying the policy recommendations in pilot applications.

The workshop will discuss the findings of the project and present viewpoints and experiences from the industry, the research community and other stakeholder in order to stimulate discussion on the identified gaps between technological advancements and their practical application. The objective is to agree on a number of challenges and policy recommendations for expediting the further acceptance, development and implementation of e-Collaborative Environments.


The TOPICS of the workshop are:

  • Current and future policy frameworks aiming at accelerating the adoption of Collaborative e-Working Environments
  • Weaknesses and strengths of the available collaboration tools and platforms
  • Behavioural, organisational, socio-economic and regulatory factors that influence the adoption of electronic collaboration tools at the workplace
  • Role of knowledge management and social networks for improving collaboration

REGISTRATION/LOCATION

There is no fee to attend the workshop, but you must register in advance.

Registration
Agenda
Time: Friday, 22nd June 2007, 10.00-17.00
Location: FOKUS - Fraunhofer Insitute for Open Communication Systems, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589 Berlin, Germany


[edit] Living Labs Workshop

20-21 June 2007, Munich, Germany

More information is available here "Knowledge Work Living Lab"

[edit] ICE2007 Conference

4-6 June 2007, Sophia Antipolis (Nice), France

More information is available here "Concurrent Innovation: an emerging paradigm for Collaboration and Competitiveness in the Extended Enterprise"

[edit] PROLEARN Summer School 2007

27 May - Jun 2 2007, Fréjus (Nice), France

More information is available here http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/summer-school-2007.

[edit] Co-Creative Research and Innovation to Connect the Lisbon Strategy to People: ENoLL Event

21-22 May 2007, Guimarães, Portugal

More information is available here http://www.ami-communities.net/wiki/ENoLL_Event_Guimaraes and here http://www.ami-communities.eu/pub/wiki.cgi/d290246/Guimaraes%20Programme%20two%20day%20event%201805.pdf.

[edit] Rural Living Lab Award

16 May 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

More information is available here http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/RLL_Award_2007.

[edit] 13th European Conference on Information Systems in Agriculture and Forestry (themed Living Labs)

15-16 May 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

More information is available here http://www.isaf.cz/index_en.php?iMenu=10.

[edit] ICBL2007 - 1st International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Blended Learning

7-9 May 2007, Florianópolis, Brazil

More information is available here http://www.icbl-conference.org.

[edit] ECOSPACE eProfessionals Living Lab Workshop and Training

23-24 April 2007, St. Augustin / Bonn, Germany

More information is available here http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/Ecospace_Living_Lab_Workshop_for_Ami%40Work.

[edit] 2nd International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning

18-20 April 2007, Amman, Jordan

More information is available here http://www.imcl-conference.org/.

[edit] 2nd Industrial Day on Collaborative Networked Organisations (CNOs)

12 April 2007, Brussels

Event theme: ECOLEAD impact creation in industry

The 2nd Industrial Day on Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNOs), to be held in Brussels on 12th April 2007, is the second event aimed at providing practical solutions and advices to organizations interested in establishing advanced and innovative collaborative approaches within their business contexts.

The event is supported by ECOLEAD (http://www.ecolead.org), an integrated project funded by the EC IST-FP6 Programme aimed at developing technologies for networks of collaborative enterprises. ECOLEAD foresees that in ten years’ time, most enterprises will be part of one or more sustainable collaborative networks and aims at enhancing the added-value to businesses operating within these dynamic collaborative networks. The project is working closely with regional and international initiatives who act as multipliers for supporting the large deployment of the emerging CNO paradigms. ECOLEAD is developing framework models and ICT solutions to enable the competitiveness and the innovation in Collaborative and Innovative Organizations.

Event Program [4]

Event Registration form [5]

[edit] Living Labs Open Innovation Community and European Network of Living Labs Event

27 March 2007, Hasselt, Belgium

Join Living Labs Open Innovation Community members in Hasselt, Belgium on March 27 2007! more...

[edit] International Conference on Agricultural Economics, Rural Development and Informatics

20-21 March 2007, Debrecen, Hungary

The bi-annual International Conference on Agricultural Economics, Rural Development and Informatics aims at enhancing the exchange of opinions and experiences in the relevant areas.

This year's, 3rd, edition of the Conference is dedicated to strategic approaches and options which Member States could use in their Rural Development programmes. The aims of the conference are in line with the three thematic axes laid down in the new Rural Development regulation: improving competitiveness for farming and forestry; improving quality of life and diversification of rural economy, while focusing on environment and countryside.

More information is available here http://www.agr.unideb.hu/ava3/

[edit] European Network of Living Labs Workshop

27-28 February 2007, Brussels, Belgium

The Living Lab workshop overall objective is to plan and activate a coordinated movement of the European Network of Living Labs and Living Lab projects. More information is available here http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/20070227_ENoLL_Workshop.

[edit] Köln 2007: Information Day on European ICT Research & Development "FP7 – ICT Proposers Day"

1 February 2007, Köln, Germany

Köln 2007 was an opportunity to meet other people with similar or complementary research interests who wish to form project consortia.

After a short opening ceremony with speeches from Dr. Annette Schavan, German Federal Minister of Education and Research and Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, the rest of the day has been organised as an information fair, with no formal agenda.

Köln 2007 is essentially unstructured. What you get out of it depends on what you put in; the event has been structured around 40 "networking booths", each corresponding to one of the Objectives of the work programme.

More information is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/koln_2007/index_en.htm

[edit] Industrial Forum 2006

4 December 2006, Conference Centre, Jolly Hotel Leonardo Da Vinci, Via Dei Gracchi, 324, Rome

Event theme: Competitiveness and Innovation in Collaborative Clusters

The Industrial Forum aims at offering an opportunity to Industrial players from different market sectors and from different European Regions, as well as to Regional Development Agencies and local Government Bodies to discuss and learn how to mix the three main ingredients for regional success: Collaboration, Competitiveness and Innovation. The idea is to confront challenges, strategies and experiences, and to discuss emerging issues and opportunities from the deployment of new methods and approaches in Collaborative Innovation Clusters.

The Industrial Forum is a one-day event, structured into two sessions:

  • a morning session, built around a panel of representatives from major international enterprises of different industrial sectors, SME’s Clusters, Value Networks, Professional Associations and Policy makers, providing their own view on the current measures for supporting and improving the competitiveness and innovation capability in collaborative clusters, as well as discussing major challenges and opportunities emerging from the implementation of this scenario;
  • an afternoon session, organised in two parallel workshops, one aimed at identifying current barriers and potential solution for improving the competitiveness and innovation capability in collaborative clusters, the other focusing on the technologies and solutions for enhancing the creativity and productivity of knowledge workers.

The event will be closed by a plenary session, aiming at summarising findings and discussing opportunities of launching joint initiatives.

Introduction Programme Venue Registration

[edit] A-BARD European Broadband for Rural Development Policy briefing

30 November 2006, Brussels, Belgium

Analysing Broadband Access for Rural Development (A-BARD) project invites you to its final dissemination event will bring together policy makers, academics and stakeholders working with broadband and broadband applications in rural areas. During the event, participants will be able to learn about A-BARD's findings and recommendations, as well as to review and discuss their implication on the EC rural policies.

More information is available here: A-BARD Policy briefing Invitation

[edit] IST2006

21-23 November 2006, Helsinki, Finland

IST event gathers together all the key players of European information society technologies. The event concentrates on European policies, strategies, research activities and results in all areas of the Information Society. The Exhibition shows concrete results of research in and beyond Europe made possible by the IST Programme. Networking Sessions complement the conference and exhibition and contribute to one of the prime objectives of the European Commission in the area of R&D - to encourage forward thinking and collaborative initiatives for FP7.

The event is organised by the European Commission in cooperation with Tekes, Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, and the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Finland.

More information is available here http://www.ist2006.fi/ and http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/index_en.htm

[edit] Launching European Network of Living Labs

20 November 2006, Helsinki, Finland

The Finnish Presidency will launch a European Network of Living Labs on 20th November 2006. To support this network launch, the CoreLabs Coordination Action and the COMIST Specific Support Action now announce a Living Labs expression of interest.

[edit] European Day of the Entrepreneur

7-8 November 2006, Sofia, Bulgaria

The European Day of the Entrepreneur (EDE), traditionally organized by Sofia Municipality and Sofia University "St.Kliment Ohridski" has been carried out for the fourth time on 7-8 of November 2006 at the Inter Expo Center, Sofia. All the relevant Ministries and more than 20 important public, non-governmental and private structures were co-organizers of this significant forum. This year the EDE has been held under the motto “European Funds and Regional Development” related to the Bulgaria’s forthcoming membership in EU, and during the forum challenges in front of the business and local authorities for planning and implementing projects under the EC Structural Funds have been discussed.

More information is available here http://www-it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/ede2006/home_en.htm.

[edit] eChallenges e-2006

25-27 October 2006, Barcelona, Spain

e-2006 will provide a forum to showcase the achievements of FP6 and Regional, National and International ICT related initiatives, and look forward to the future by focusing on the thematic priorities of FP7. The European Research Area (ERA) and research priorities and trends for the future will also be discussed.

This year's conference themes include eBusiness, eGovernment, eLearning & ICT Skills, Collaborative Working Environments and International Cooperation on IST. e-2006 will also feature an Exhibition and an attractive Social Programme for partners, delegates, speakers and exhibitors, to enhance networking opportunities both during and after the Conference.

More information is available here http://www.echallenges.org/e2006/.

[edit] Clusters in Poland and New Member States: the role of cooperation and innovation

09 October 2006, Warsaw, Poland

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together experts in the field of science, politics and business in order to discuss the role of policies and strategies in stimulation of the development of value clusters and creation of new opportunities for collaborative innovation in the New Member and Associated States (NMAS). We want to focus on the practice and to learn from the experience of national and foreign clusters. We will present the impact of networks of collaborative innovation on the formation of value clusters, and the way new work and business environments enabled by Information Society Technologies may support these networks. We will try to identify and make out new initiatives of creation of clusters and network of collaborative innovation through strengthening the NMAS innovation system in the area of new work and business environments and building strong integrative networking relations with the IST Programme. (...more)

[edit] Summer University on Information Technology in Agriculture and Rural Development

19-22 August 2006, Debrecen, Hungary

This “Summer University” provides a forum for agriculture related professionals, professors, lecturers and PhD. students to exchange information on education, research, applications and developments of Information Technologies in Agriculture and Rural Development and publish the most recent results. It covers a wide array of topics. These include new applications of well established and understood technologies to innovative and entrepreneurial applications of emerging technologies, in addition to issues related to policy and knowledge dissemination. Contributions from various countries will allow a broadened perspective for all attending.

Topics (Education – Research – Applications)

Education/Training programs and development Information systems Mobile technology applications Information and communication technologies for rural areas E-learning Food safety and traceability Web services, portals and Internet applications Wireless and sensor networks Distributed computing, grid technology Modelling and simulation, Decision Support Systems GIS/RS Precision Agriculture Collaborative working environment IT and innovation in agri-food sector

More information is available here http://odin.agr.unideb.hu/su2006/

[edit] ICE 2006

26-28 June 2006, Milano, Italy

Event theme: Innovative Products and Services through Collaborative Networks

From its outset, Concurrent Engineering has focused on the integrated design of products and processes. For years, this approach succeeded to consider all elements of the product life cycle right from the beginning.

ICE2006 Conference website

ICE'2006 Keynote presentations

ICE'2006 Workshops 27 June 2006

ICE'2006 Communities Forum day 28 June 2006

[edit] 12th European Conference on Information Systems in Agriculture and Forestry

16-17 May 2006, Prague, Czech Republic

The 2006 conference was held under a subtitle 'Through scientific development to prosperity' which suggests its objectives. The topics included: scientific opportunities and directions in European Union, i2010 iniciative, information and communication technologies for rural areas, applications for agriculture and forestry, eLearning for rural areas, human aspects of information society development, food safety and traceability, knowledge based bio economy, and others.

More information is available here http://www.iszl.cz.

[edit] IST-Africa 2006 Conference and Exhibition

3-5 May 2006, Pretoria, South Africa

Regional Impact of Information Society Technologies in Africa ("IST-Africa") is a multi-stakeholder initiative focused on reducing the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa.

IST-Africa 2006 bring together delegates from commercial, government & research organisations across Africa and from Europe, to bridge the Digital Divide by sharing knowledge, experience, lessons learnt, and good practice.

The conference was held at the CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. More information is available here http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2006/.

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