Darko Fercej: Central European Living Lab for Territorial Innovation - Open days 2013

This project is imolementedthrough the CENTRAL
EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF
www.centralivinglab.eu
Project
presentation
Open days 2013
October 8th 2013
mag. Darko Ferčej
E-zavod, Zavod za celovite razvojne rešitve
E-Institute, Institute for Comprehensive
DevelopmentSolutions

Globalization

Innovation policy
• Innovation = breaking existing rules & taking risks
KICKSTARTER = (US collected 100 mio $ for 25.000 products)
• Public policies = making rules & minimizing risks
• Lack of innovation = result of prudent and sound
policy functioning
• Innovation cannot be done only by individuals =
require imagination, creativity, problem solving,
collective thinking, non-self centrizem
• Policy can do: be open, forget about traditions.

PROJECT PROFILE & PARTNERS
Central Europe Programme
European Territorial
Cooperation Objective
ERDF 2007-2013
Duration:
1.5.2011 – 30.4.2014
(36 months)
LP: E-Institute (SI)
10 Project partners
from 8 EU countries

Living Lab Approach
• User-driven open innovation ecosystems based on
business – citizens – government partnerships
which enable users to take part an active part in:
– Bringing users early into the co-creation process
– Bridging the innovation gap between technology
development and the uptake of new products and
services
– Allowing for early assessment of the socio-economic
implications of new technological solutions
• User-driven methodological framework for R&D,
used for specifying, prototyping, validating and
refining complex solutions in real-life environments
• Promotes co-creative innovation by bringing
together the different stakeholders involved in the
innovation process such as companies, research
centers, public institutions and citizens
• End-users are the core of the creation process!
Co-creation / Exploration / Experimentation / Evaluation

Pilot methodology
• based on SEVEN STEPS TO BUILD UP A
“TRANSNATIONAL LIVING LAB”
1. Localise and identify your stakeholders
2. Establish a Living Lab PPP (Public Private Partnership)
3. Assess the relevance of « transnational » issues
4. Deploy an ICT infrastructure
5. Establish a local and/or « transnational » PPPP community
(PPP+People)
6. Run one or more User Driven, Open Innovation pilots
7. Summarize and evaluate the results

Main Activities
• Pilot Implementation
– Validate the CentraLab hypothesis through
10 pilot LL projects initiatives in 10 policy / thematic fields
– A coordinated set of trans-national pilot projects exploring the
potential for partnership building and policy-related investments
relating ICT R&D to:

Pilot
The pilot concerns the public lighting energy consumption reduction of a small town, Campodenno:
• throughout the utilization of sensors and
• a lighting regulation system that will also enable SMART TOWN
services throughout other services development
Sensore-attuatore
Rete di sensori Rete di reti Risparmio energia
Smart Town
http://climate-change.centralivinglab.eu

Pilot
The motivation is to bring together various actors in the field of
tourism services development in the Gorenjska region,
to create innovative solutions for supporting, promoting and
encouraging development of sustainable tourism in the region and
development of the region itself.
Development of a web-based prototype solution that include geo
location information and social networks in the Living Lab approach.
The result of LL pilot research is a design of a prototype and a critical
analysis of the co-creation process.
http://eco-tourism.centralivinglab.eu

Pilot
Parking Card for Disabled People
• Unified and simple system of management and control
• Simply release
• It’s needed to upgrade the format of the mark so that
it is not that easy to fake and it is in line with a
standardized European one
Objectives
• The creation of a regional central repository for the
state of disability of people
• Administrative simplification: reduction of documents
to be submitted to the P.A.
• Administrative simplification: possibility of release of a
document directly via on-line procedures
• Possibilities for P.A. to have a unified system of control
of parking cards for disabled people checking doctors’
permissions given
http://ehealth.centralivinglab.eu

Pilot
http://energyefficiency.centralivinglab.eu

Pilot
Pilot is focused on providing educational material to the environmental sector. The main target of the pilot is developing the
catalogue of existing education products oriented to environment and its protection. The catalogue will be based on current
metadata standards and geoinformation technologies (e.g. geoportals). The catalogue will integrate the existing solutions as well
as the materials developed in the CentraLab project (the secondary target of pilot). Pilot is intended to represent the clear and
intelligible framework to the environmental information (including maps and spatial data).
http://environment-and-education.centralivinglab.eu
Environment
Data, maps,
metadata,
methodology...
New (created in
CentraLab)
Translations
Existing (e.g. SDI-
EDU, Humboldt,
Metaschool...)
Embedded
Links (Catalogue)

Pilot
Mobile Usability Lab (UseBox) / Usability Living Lab
• User-centred usability-testing of Websites, Web-
applications & Mobile Apps in public space
• Cost-effective usability tests
 Short time-to-market
• Better usability in early project stages
 Better acceptance of potential customers
• Hardware:
 Mobile „Usability Box“
 Applicable at e.g. fairs, company events
• Software:
 Automatic evaluation of data / test results
 Based on Cloud Computing solutions
 User participation portal
http://media-and-creativity.centralivinglab.eu

Pilot
Development of an information system supporting knowledge
management processes and resources of Kielce Technology Park
and the relationship with the incubated companies in the creative
industry.
The participating entrepreneurs – defined as end-users, as well as
citizens, designers, students etc. according to the LL approach
will:
• take active part in the co-design and development process,
• give regularly feedback on usage aspects,
• participate in testing e-platform its usability and
functionalities.
A detailed description of usability of e-platform (based on
existing LabDesign.pl web site) to be included by the CentraLab
pilot project is not finally defined and will be a result of the
cooperation, needs research of the end-users during the Pilot
project (in accordance with the Living Lab approach). The e-
platform will contain tools providing complex support
programme for industry and usability design.
http://micro-sme-network.centralivinglab.eu

Pilot
Conducting a pilot in the e-mobility sector in cooperation
with the electric car trial VLOTTE in Vorarlberg, Austria. The
main goal of VLOTTE is to provide aids for electricity
powered cars.
E-mobility living lab pilot objectives:
• Examine and validate user involvement and
requirements.
• Examine how public aids and funds for e-mobility can
help to innovate and change the people transport
sector.
• Examine how existing electric cars can be used more
efficiently and according to end-user needs and
therefore examine possibilities for new products.
• Bring together public and private interests for
leasing, buying and renting electric cars.
• Create a sustainable ecosystem for innovation in the e-
mobility sector in the Vorarlberg region.
http://mobility.centralivinglab.eu

Pilot
Creating smart procurement environment for
knowledge dissemination and innovation creation in
procurement processes of small municipalities, to
increase the efficiency of their spend management in
order to enhance rural development.
Pilot main components:
• ICT commun. and collab. platform for procurers in
villages for „best practices“ dissemination and
learning,
• electronic procurement tools (e-auctions, e-
tenders, e-catalogues) to execute procurement,
• database of real procurement data for RTDs for
innovation creation,
• network of partners.
http://rural-development.centralivinglab.eu

Pilot
Pilot project aims to find, ground and establish a system where ecological,
economical and public administration requirements can be harmonized.
Goals and ideas:
• To set up a knowledge base regarding the waste management basics.
• To create and manage a special collaboration environment that is
comfortable for all kinds of stakeholders.
• To integrate the main waste management ideas (prevention – disposal –
recovery) and establish standards according to them.
• To provide training facilities to end users on waste management and the
corresponding life cycle approach.
• To provide training facilities to companies on possible ways of protection
of the environment with respect to business interests.
• To promote and share research results and technical developments which
relate to sustainable use of natural resources and help to minimize the
amount of waste by the use of economical materials and renewable
energy sources.
• To take into consideration the national and international directives and
possibly give a helping hand to decision makers in creating new policies
and regulations.
http://waste-management.centralivinglab.eu

Budapest Manifesto - NeSTI
Constitution of a NeSTI, Network of
Cities and Regions for Social and
Territorial Innovation
www.centralivinglab.eu ->> NeSTI
Join us!

NeSTI
• Network for Social and Territorial Innovation
• Open to all regional and local government bodies
and agencies, including EGTCs
• Signatories to Budapest Manifesto
• Commitment to cross-border, transnational, and
inter-regional cooperation to address key challenges
of modern times through social and territorial
innovation
Join us!

Why ?
• Shared strategies are required:
– Innovation as the guiding policy, but improving democratic
governance must also be priority
– Capturing the potential of increasing civic participation
together with Future Internet
– Re-framing the role of the public sector in a demand-
driven perspective
• Too little have been done so far:
– Europe is still in crisis
– Change of the world is not taken seriously in Europe
Join us!

Key Network Activities
• Play a pro-active role in the Smart Specialisation
Platform based on the community-driven Living
Lab process approach
• Commitment to cross-border, transnational, and
inter-regional cooperation to address key
challenges through Social and Territorial
Innovation
• Promote reciprocal learning, transfer and sharing
of good practice within the member organisations
• Develop common and macro-regional strategies
that integrate funding sources bottom-up
(FP, ERDF, ESF, EARDF, EFF, etc.)
• Define concrete goals, success criteria, and
performance indicators through a mixture of
competitive and collaborative benchmarking
Francesco Molinari

Join us - NeSTI
The Budapest Manifesto
for the creation of
NeSTI, Network of Social and Territorial
Innovation
You can sign up to the Budapest Manifesto simply
by completing Budapest Manifesto Signatories form.
Join us!Join us!

What has to be changed?
• definition of innovation is the key for success.
Currently Europe understands innovation as conducting
the cutting-edge technology research in the laboratories.
Consequently FP7 supported mainly basic technological
research with no real impact on the market.
• What should be new definition of innovation? Helga
Novotny defines innovation as finding new ways of
meeting consumer needs.
• success lies in deploying existing technology in the new
ways that meet consumers needs

Europe can develop only if it will forget
traditions and accept open innovation
• Living Labs can not only help to define priorities, but should
be part of implementation process of smart specialization
strategies
• Open innovation should be horizontal priority of smart
specialization priorities... and if achieving this living labs
could play crucial role in the success of Europe’s innovation
and competitiveness.
• Connect and not only protect ideas
• We cannot compete in mass production or lowering prices
• Take advantage of open society in western democracies

Smart territories - policies
• Government – what we do
togather because we can not do
it alone
• Buerocracy – something that we
pay, but it is working against us
• HOW TO MAKE CHANGE ?
Building better world is not about technology but is
about ideas (make change & break rules)

Thank you for your
attention!
CONTACT:
Darko Fercej
• darko@ezavod.si
+386 2 749 32 25,
• www.ezavod.si
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