Living Labs Open Innovation Community

Welcome to the home page of the Living Labs Open Innovation Community

The Living Labs Open Innovation Community (LL-Open) is open to all individuals, globally, who are interested in Living Labs and Open Innovation. The open community was launched on 20th November 2006 in Helsinki as part of the Finnish EU Presidency launch event of the European Network of Living Labs, including the Helsinki Manifesto launch.

The community of individuals and the network of Living Labs are facilitated by the CO-LLABS Thematic Network. The earlier members of the LivingLabs@Work and Leadership@Work Special Interest Groups have become members of the Living Labs Open Innovation Community.

• If you are a visitor you can register to join the current 1571 members of the Living Labs Open Innovation Community.
• In case you already are a member of the AMI@Work family of communities and would like to join us in the Living Labs Open Innovation Community, you just need to tick the box of our community in your profile in mySpace!

You are invited to fill in your Living Labs expression of interest.

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News

[edit] 21-23 June 2010: CO-LLABS workshop at ICE 2010: "Living Labs Fostering SME innovation and Entrepreneurship in Cities and Regions"

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 short term. On the second day, 22 June, the actual workshop will take place.
More information will follow soon.

[edit] 14 April 2010: ENoLL "4th wave" launch event in Valencia under the Spanish Presidency and consolidation of the network

The 4th Call for new ENoLL members has been launched on 7th October 2009 and closed on 25th January 2010. ENoLL has received 118 membership applications from 36 different countries. On April 14th, 2010 the applicants will enter the network and will be introduced to the other Living Labs.

To know the "new entries" and to discover more about the European Network of Living Labs, visit www.openlivinglabs.eu ..you will be very welcome!

Would like to join? Please register here and take part to the joint event of the European Network of Living Labs – ENoLL and Future Internet Assembly – FIA.

[edit] 27th January 2010: Workshop on Regional Living Lab Policy for the Benefit of SMEs

This workshop was organised jointly by CO-LLABS and PACA. The aim of this workshop was to discuss the role of regional innovation policies and living labs concepts to foster SME innovation in regions. The living labs concept, built upon principles of user driven open innovation, has the potential to enrich the existing set of instruments for regional innovation policy. In order for the living labs concept to become effectively integrated as part of the set of regional innovation instruments, regional policies must adapt and itself innovate, in order to take advantage of its opportunities and guide its adoption.

[edit] 26th January 2010: Workshop on Smart Cities call CIP ICT-PSP

This workshop was organised by ENoLL, supported by CO-LLABS, Eurocities and APOLLON. The workshop was divided in 2 main sections: Networking starting in the morning and Co-creating in the afternoon.
The networking sessions started with 3 presentation: the first one, presented by Mr. Roberto Santoro, focused on the opportunity of co-creating "smart" commons through the Open System of Living Labs Community; Mr. Dave Carter showed then the role of Smart Cities as Creative Cities emphasising challanges and opportunities and the need of a real citizen engagement. In the last presentation Mr. Pieter Ballon offered an overview of the just started APOLLON project (Advanced Pilots of Living Labs Operating in Networks) aimed at demonstrating the positive impacts of cross-border domain-specific Living Lab networks. After the introduction, the networking session was led by Mr. Hans Schaffers where many participants were given the opportunity to present and discuss their experience and ideas with a view towards development of Call 4 Pilot B proposals. On basis of this session, four thematic domains emerged as a basis for Pilot B proposals. A joint co-creating session was organized in four parallel working groups to elaborate the potential Pilot B proposals. The groups elaborated their proposals focusing on three aspects: ideas that make a city "smart", innovative services to be delivered by Smart Cities based on Future Internet technologies and existing platforms made available by involved Cities and LLs.
Workshop presentations and more information about CIP2010 call on Smart Cities You may also visit EUROCITIES website for further information.

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• Call for presentation on Living Lab co-creation practices
• The call for membership application for the 3rd wave of Living Labs joining the network of Living Labs is OPEN!
• Living Labs: From 'Lab' to 'Reality' - European Experiences
• AMI@Work on-line Communities outpaced 2000 registered members!
• Welcome to give your input and ideas for further development of the Open

[edit] New Members

Welcome to the lastest 10 new members:

• René Barsalo
• Ángel Martínez-Cavero
• Thilini Rajapakse
• Jonathan Bartoli
• Agrimi Adriana
• Daniel Labonté
• Ari Aarniovuori
• Eric Legale
• Blandine Lebourg
• Tibor Torok