APOLLON

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• One of the main strengths of the Living Lab approach is its ability to merge research and innovation processes with the local, real-life context. Over the past years, an increasing number of Living Labs have started operations throughout Europe, and are forming a vibrant and still growing community. It is clear that networking and federation at a European scale is needed in order to fully leverage the strength of these locally embedded labs. Current initiatives focus e.g. on the exchange of general principles and best practices for individual Living Labs.
• The APOLLON project will take the next step in networking and harmonising Living Lab approaches throughout Europe. It will evaluate the positive impact of domain-specific cross-border Living Lab networks. This approach enables SMEs to test and experiment their products and services outside of their home market and gain access to a true European market space, while being supported by large industrial companies, academic centres and other Living Lab stakeholders.

APOLLON selected four domains in which ICT products and services innovation may benefit most from cross-border Living Lab networking: Homecare, Energy Efficiency, eManufacturing and eParticipation through Social Media. The main objectives of the APOLLON project are

• 1. to conduct cross-border Living Lab pilots, aimed in particular at SMEs,
• 2. to harmonise methodologies and tools for cross-border Living Lab projects, and
• 3. to create sustainable cross-border domain-specific Living Lab networks

The APOLLON project is setting up Living Lab thematic networks. The project consists of four cross-border Living Lab experiments, i.e. in the Homecare and Independent Living, Energy Efficiency, eManufacturing and eParticipation domain. These focus on validating the added value of a cross-border Living Lab network, both in terms of SMEs gaining access to new markets, as in terms of achieving collaboration breakthroughs in the development of pan-European domain-specific solutions.

The APOLLON Consortium consists of 28 Core Partners in 10 European member states. It involves Living Labs, SMEs, large ICT companies as well as research partners. Through a close co-operation with the European Network of Living Labs, wide dissemination and involvement of the Living Lab community is ensured.

At this stage, APOLLON has already established a large community of interest, not only within the Consortium itself, but also by involving a large number of supporting partners. At the kick-off of the project, 65 organisations from 23 member states in Europe have signed a Letter of Support, expressing their interest in supporting the project and committing to one or several domain focuses. Now around 100 organizations expressed their interest to be part of this enlarged Consortium.

You too can support APOLLON and gain front row access to the development of the project outcomes : download your Letter_Of_Support

Contents 1 News from APOLLON 1.1 The GNSS Living Lab prize 2011 1.2 April 2011: APOLLON wiki Community on Thematic Domain Networks 1.3 06 December 2010: News:GNSS Living Lab Prize: Open Call for reality Check Pilots! 1.4 GNSS Living Lab Prize: a 10.000 euro opportunity! 1.5 17 November 2010: APOLLON 2nd Newsletter Available 1.6 14 April 2010: ENoLL "4th wave" launch event in Valencia under the Spanish Presidency and consolidation of the network 2 Consortium and Partner Network 2.1 Consortium Overview 2.2 Join APOLLON! Supporting Partners Overview

[edit] News from APOLLON

[edit] The GNSS Living Lab prize 2011

We have started last year by launching the GNSS Living Lab Prize which has been a fantastic success. We collected 57 ideas for innovative services in the Energy, Health and Media domains and we are supporting, during 2011, 3 winners to transform their ideas into business, with the conduction of experimentation pilots in best fitting Living labs and with the support to access venture capital.
You as an individual have the opportunity also this year to submit (deadline 30 June 2011) an innovative service idea combining advanced ICT and satellite navigation technologies to win 10.000 euro.

The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) values knowledge, especially innovative ideas involving satellite navigation. Hence, it gives you the opportunity to present and promote your idea, and eventually, to put it into practice.

• 15th March Kick-Off Catalonia, Barcelona / Spain
• 23rd March Kick-Off Taiwan, Taipei / Taiwan
• 21st - 24th March 16. Münchner Fortbildungsseminar Geoinformationssysteme, Munich / Germany
• 24th March Kick-Off South Holland, Delft / The Netherlands
• 1st April Opening of the ideas database
• 14th April Kick-Off Hesse - "Global Navigation meets Geoinformation", Darmstadt / Germany
• 27th April Kick-Off Brazil
• 05th May Kick-Off Switzerland, Winterthur / Switzerland
• 05th May Kick-Off Czech Republic, Prague / Czech Republic
• 09th - 11th May Global Space & Satellite Forum 2011, Dubai / United Arab Emirates
• 10th - 11th May International Kick-Off, London / United Kingdom
• 10th - 13th May Innovation Forum Telematik / Navigation at the Transport Logistic Trade Fair, Munich / Germany
• 11th May Kick-Off Arab Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Dubai / United Arab Emirates
• 16th May Kick-Off Nice - Sophia Antipolis
• 30st June Closing of the ideas database
• 18th - 20th October sMOVE 360° - 1st International Trade Fair for Smart Car Mobile Communication, Munich / Germany
• 19th October Awards Ceremony, Munich / Germany

[edit] April 2011: APOLLON wiki Community on Thematic Domain Networks

APOLLON project is going to set up of Living Lab thematic networks related to the four cross-border Living Lab experiments (Homecare and Independent Living, Energy Efficiency, eManufacturing and eParticipation) domains.
The working groups for these domain networks will be based on the APOLLON wiki Community, fully open to everyone contribution in a broad collaborative way. In such context not only Living Labs and Testbeds but also individuals and SMEs can contribute to the innovation process.

[edit] 06 December 2010: News:GNSS Living Lab Prize: Open Call for reality Check Pilots!

18 October 2010, Munich. The GNSS Living Lab Prize (supported by the GNSS Supervisory Authority through the GAINS project ) has been launched during the Galileo Application Days 2010 event, held in Brussels on 3-5 March 2010. From 57 ideas that have been submitted from May to July 2010, ten ideas have been nominated as finalists GNSS_LL_Prize_Finalists and the three winning ideas in the categories energy, health and media have been awarded on 18 October 2010.

APOLLON is supporting this workshop whose objective is to give an opportunity to SMEs to present their business ideas and to interact with appropriate Living Labs willing to support the further development of their business.

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[edit] GNSS Living Lab Prize: a 10.000 euro opportunity!

The GNSS Living Lab Prize (supported by the GNSS Supervisory Authority through the GAINS project has been launched during the Galileo Application Days 2010 event, held in Brussels on 3-5 March 2010.

The GNSS Living Lab Prize calls for developers and users, engineers of research institutes, and development departments but also from new ventures, to submit proposals for GNSS-related products and services ready to be tested and ideally implemented in suitable Living Labs.

     Submissions of the ideas to the prize shall focus on the following themes: health, energy and media.
     Each theme will produce a winner, whose owner will be awarded with 10.000 EUR.

As part of the prize, the winning ideas will undergo to an experimentation in those Living Labs, who will demonstrate to offer the best testing infrastructure, the most suitable users communities and the most attractive implementation and exploitation potential.

The opportunity for Living Labs is that both financial and consulting support will be available for selected Living Labs to facilitate and support the implementation of winning ideas in Living Labs context.

The timetable for the GNSS Living Lab Prize is as follows:

• 3-5 March 2010: Official launch of the European Satellite Navigation Competition;
• 1st May to 31st July 2010: Ideas submission;
• 1st August to 30 September 2010: Ideas evaluation;
• 3rd week of October 2010 (TBC): Award ceremony in Munich;
• 1st December 2010 to 31st January 2011: Submission of proposal from Living Labs, for adopting and implementing the winning ideas;
• 1st of April 2011 (TBC): Start of the trials in the selected Living Labs.

Take this opportunity! Visit www.galileo-masters.eu and discover how to participate.

Additional information can be also found at www.gsa.europa.eu.

[edit] 17 November 2010: APOLLON 2nd Newsletter Available

You can find the second edition of the APOLLON Newsletter available on the APOLLON Portal at: http://www.apollon-pilot.eu/news/item/apollon-2nd-newsletter-november-2010

[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] Consortium and Partner Network

The APOLLON consortium brings together a strong selection of committed partners that lead the current cross-border Living Lab developments on a European and even worldwide scale. These partners include:

• the current European Living Labs and their associated academic and public partners that are arguably among the most prominent and/or promising Living Lab entities in their respective domains, and that have already taken the lead in federating and networking Living Labs throughout Europe
• leading European ICT industrial stakeholders
• innovative SMEs that have or need access to other European national markets.

The Apollon Consortium unites 28 core partners. It includes large enterprises, SMEs, Living Labs, Universities and research centres as well as governments and public organisations (through their (in)direct involvement in the Living Labs). Through a close co-operation with the European Network of Living Labs, wide dissemination and involvement of the Living Lab community is ensured.

Living Labs themselves are designed to create a sustainable ecosystem for large industrial companies, SMEs, governments and citizens to cooperate in open innovation. Therefore, industrial partners and SMEs are equally important to the success of this project. The APOLLON Consortium counts 11 SMEs, located throughout Europe, and actively involved in Living Lab operations today.

On top of that, the APOLLON consortium has major industrial lead market players on board: SAP, as well as Nokia are active participants in their fields of interest, and provide a general support to the project itself. On top of that, large players as Philips have signed a Letter of Support, committing their know-how and feedback to the project.

APOLLON strives to be an open project in which participation with all stakeholders is highly important. Therefore the APOLLON has already established at this stage a large Living Labs basis by not only having the key Living Labs as a corepartner but also by involving a large number of supporting partners. At this stage, 65 organisations throughout Europe have signed a letter of support, committing to one or several vertical domain focuses. Each of these partners are already quite active in the domain of Living labs, user driven development and open innovation.

The two sections below offer an overview of the Consortium composition and the Supporting Partners.

[edit] Consortium Overview

• IBBT, Belgium - Pieter Ballon, Koen De Vos

• 3D2+, France - Stéphane Gaultier, Anne-Caroline Abel

• Amsterdam Innovation Motor, The Netherlands - Daan Velthausz, Martijn Kries

• Alfamicro, Portugal - Álvaro de Oliveira, Manuel Collares Pereira

• ESoCE Net, Italy - Roberto Santoro, Olivier Rerolle

• FIAPAL, Portugal - João José Robalo Lopes, António Manuel Pombinho Costa Guilherme

• Forum Virium, Finland - Marianne Dannbom, Mia Uronen

• Home Automation Europe, The Netherlands - Arjen Noorbergen, Ivo de la Rive Box

• Aalto-korkeakoulusäätiö, Finland - Petra Turkama, Patrizia Hongisto

• Hungarian Vehicle Engineering, Hungary - Zoltan Kabacs

• IAVANTE, Spain - Juan Lago Cabrera, Bidatzi Marin Bastida

• Innoviting, The Netherlands - Tim van den Dool

• Intelligent Sensing Anywhere, Portugal - José Luís Malaquias, José Basilio

• Issy Media, France - Eric Légale, Sebastien Levy

• Lisboa E-Nova, Portugal - Miguel Águas, Francisco Gonçalves

• Lulea Energi, Sweden - Erik Lundström

• Lulea University of Technology, Centre for Distance-spanning Technology (CDT), Sweden - Anna Ståhlbröst, Annika Sällström

• Manchester City Council, United Kingdom - Dave Carter, Alan Holding

• Navidis, France - Philippe Perennez, Nils Aziosmanofff

• Nokia, Finland - Veli-Pekka Niitamo

• Stichting Novay, The Netherlands - Mettina Veenstra, Henri ter Hofte

• Process Visoin Oy (PVI), Finland - Simo Makkonen, Rob van Oirsouw

• Paople's Voice Media, United Kingdom - Gary Copitch

• SAP AG, Germany - Carsten Puschke, Anirban Majumdar

• Televic, Belgium - Saar De Zutter, Piet Verhoeve

• University of Maribor, Slovenia - Jože Gričar

• Université de Paris VIII, France - Charles Tijus, Thierry Baccino

• Ydreams, Portugal - Edmundo Nobre, Silvia Santos

[edit] Join APOLLON! Supporting Partners Overview

You too can support APOLLON and gain front row access to the development of the project outcomes.

For expressing your intent to support APOLLON download here your Letter_Of_Support

The following organisations have already expressed their intent to support APOLLON:

• 3D Living Innovation, France
• 83 Degrees South, Ireland
• Adv. Information Modelling Institute, Slovenia
• AF 83, France
• Agilion GmbH, Germany
• Alcatel Lucent, Belgium
• Alcatel Touch-a-Tag, Belgium
• Arches, Romania
• Arquiled, Portugal
• ArraboCAD Ltd., Hungaria
• Bearstech, France
• Bertin Technologies, France
• CENI, Portugal
• Cesbio, France
• Companhia de Desenvolvimento de Vitoria (CDV), Brazil
• Copenhagen Living Lab, Denmark
• Creative Knowledge Center Living lab, Hungary
• Culminatum Innovation Oy, Finland
• Cyber Care Clinique Living Lab, Switzerland
• Digital Spaces Living Lab, Bulgaria
• eHealth Living Lab
• Engelux, Brazil
• ENTAL Research Development and Consulting ltd, Hungaria
• evolaris Mobile Living Lab, Austria
• Fabernovel, France
• Halmstad Living Lab, Sweden
• Homokhati Rural Living Lab, Hungaria
• i2CatLab, Sweden
• ICT Usage, France
• ICT Valle Turkey
• Imeguisa Portugal
• Institu Nokia de Tecnologia (INdT), Brazil
• Laurea Living Lab, Finland
• Lens Living Lab, Slovenia
• Lighting Living Lab
• Living Lab ALL Gyou (Dension)
• Living Labs Cybermoon, UK
• Living Lab Levier, France
• Living Lab Malta
• Living Lab NorthRull, Finland
• Living Lab Thessaly, Greece
• LL for Design and Services, Finalnd
• LL Oresund
• Logica Suomi Oy (Logica Finland), Finland
• Meshining Engineering Kft, Hungaria
• NIK - Nuremberg Initiative for Communication Industry, Germany
• Nuremberg Mobile Applications Centre for Elderly & Disabled, Germany
• PaTHs Living Lab, South Africa
• Philips Applied Technology, South Africa
• Pole d'application des Techniques Satellitaires, France
• Process Vision NL
• Regione Piemonte Liaison Office, Italy
• Rio Nacimiento Living Lab, Spain
• Self Energy, Portugal
• Smart House Madrid, Spain
• Stichting Living Lab, The Netherlands
• Suupohja LL Finland
• TASLAB - LL Trentino, Italy
• The Espoo City Planning Board, Finland
• ubigrate GmbH, Germany
• Universidade Federal Do Esperito Santo (UFES), Brazil
• Varinex Informatics, Hungaria
• Viral Living Lab, Germany
• Virtech, Bulgaria
• Virtual Dimension Center, Germany