Launching European Network of Living Labs
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The Finnish Presidency has launched a European Network of Living Labs on 20th November 2006, as a step towards a new European Innovation System (EIS). The initiative aims to set up a new European Innovation Infrastructure where users play an active role in the innovation and can influence this to better serve their needs. A European Network of Living Labs is a business-citizens-government partnership. At the same time a Living Labs Open Innovation Community was launched to bring together all interested individuals for information sharing, dialogue and co-creation.
Are you interested in Living Labs? What is your personal interest and contribution? What is your initial Living Labs vision for 2010?
To support this network and community launch, the CoreLabs Coordination Action and the COMIST Specific Support Action EU projects have announced: A Living Labs expression of interest
Describe briefly (max. 200 words) your personal Living Labs interest and contribution, as well as vision for 2010 Living Labs. Join the Living Labs Open Innovation Community.
- For your expression of interest to be taken into account in planning the Network and Community activities in 2007, kindly enter it latest 31st January 2007. The results are used at the different stages of the Network and Community launch.
How to enter your expression of interest?
- If you have earlier registered yourself at www.ami-communities.eu, please click directly here. You also will then see, what others have said already and you always can modify your text.
- If you have not registered earlier, kindly enter here, welcome onboard!
This expression of interest is for interested individuals. There will be in March 2007 a separate open call for Living Labs willing to enter the "2nd wave" of the European Network of Living Labs, to be launched in Portugal in October 2007.
The results of this expression of interest will be publicly available, under the Creative Commons conditions of www.ami-communities.eu
They can be quoted provided that the source is mentioned. As a Living Labs Open Innovation Community member, you will receive key messages about future European Living Labs development. It is only allowed to use the contact details of the contributors of this expression of interest for purposes directly linked to the European Network of Living Labs and Living Labs Open Innovation Community.
Thank you in advance for your contributions!
Yours sincerely,
Mikael Börjeson
Coordinator, CoreLabs Coordination Action
CEO, Centre for Distance-spanning Technologies (CDT), Luleå University of Technology
Dr Seija Kulkki
Policy WP Leader, CoreLabs Coordination Action
Living Labs Coordinator, Collaboration@Rural Integrated Project
Director, Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR), Helsinki School of Economics
Dr Álvaro Oliveira
Main Organizer of the Portuguese Living Labs Events, Spring 2007
Managing Director, Alfamicro Lda
Roberto Santoro
Coordinator, COMIST Specific Support Action
Chair, AMI@Work family of communities
President, European Society of Concurrent Engineering (ESoCE-Net)
Prof Dr-Ing Klaus-Dieter Thoben
Main Organizer of the German Living Labs Days, September 2006
Director, Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science at the University of Bremen (BIBA)
