This document summarizes Laurea University of Applied Sciences' work on smart cities and aging populations. It discusses several European projects focused on well-being and independent living for seniors, including initiatives to prevent loneliness, improve access to transportation, and enable people to create their own smart home experiences. It also outlines Laurea's role in areas like eHealth, service innovation, and living labs networks. The document promotes Laurea as an expert collaborator on issues of smart cities, aging populations, and user-driven innovation.

1. www.laurea.fi
Smart Cities – Act 1
European Experiences:
Wellbeing & Aging Population
Laurea University of Applied Science
@Laurea_RDI
Anna Kivilehto Senior
Manager
27/09/2013
Tuija Hirvikoski, Director, Laurea UAS
Rob Moonen, Senior Manager, Laurea UAS

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Wellbeing & Aging Population in Smart Cities
Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Wellbeing & Aging in Smart Cities
Smart City Helsinki
JADE
E2C
COM’ON
Do-It-Your-Self
ISJ Call for papers

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Focus Areas at Laurea UAS
Alignment with and
connections to
international, European
and local HEIs
Attracting top talent to
the Greater Helsinki
region
Attracting financing and
investment to the
Greater Helsinki Region

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Integrating learning, technology and
the HEI’s societal interface
• Learning by Developing (LbD)
system of learning and human
development that mobilizes and
harnesses human creative talent en
masse
• It is a learning system that
integrates education with
research, development and
innovation operations (RDI);
consequently, it fuels our
collective creativity.
• In addition, it provides each
student the tools to develop and
utilize his or her creative talents
fully in order to generate a
livelihood for him or herself and to
foster productivity for society as a
whole

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eHealth at Laurea UAS

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eHealth projects & study programmes at
Laurea UAS building blocks…
Interdisciplinary
Human-driven encounters
(eInteraction & eEncounter)
ICT knowledge
User-driven service innovation
design
eBusiness & User-driven
service planning
eHealth –methods
eHealth learning & coaching

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As a Living Lab, Laurea…
Facilitates R&D projects based on co-
operation with companies, third
sector, public sector & HEIs hereby
working together with end-users and
students
End-users and customers are drivers
and developers from the early
beginning & during the whole R&D
process
Students are developers & creators
of new professional knowledge
together with other actors
To facilitate professional knowledge
creation and rich interaction Laurea
has several development
environments, labs and test beds

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Collaborative RDI-projects
‘Orchestration Tables’
Learning by Developing (LbD)
& Living Labs models
Together with our partners we
aspire to construct a better
RDI results, improve their
usage in companies and within
society
Interesting & Competitive
Learning Environment to boost
carries of both international
and native students

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Laurea Living Labs Network
Service Innovation and Design Lab
BarLaurea
Safety and Security Lab
Smart Hospital
Medical and Care Simulation Centre
CIDE cluster
Ballad – Baltic Region for SMEs
Abrilab / Aalto
NanoLab / Vantaa Innovation institute
Urban Mill / EUE
Sendai Finland Wellbeing Centre / City of
Sendai, Japan
Shuan-Lien elderly care Living Lab / NTU,
Taiwan
European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)

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Wellbeing & Aging Population in
Smart Cities
Unchronical life biography
Wealth of the growing number of
+65 vs. Public sector resources ->
economic potential
“Smart City is a place where people
can live with peace of mind and in
good health in their own homes and
neighborhoods for their entire lives,
while giving retirees the chance to
participate in society using their
abilities and knowledge”
Kashiwa No Wa Smart City project

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Investing in Life & Health (JADE)
5 Regional Research Driven Clusters
connecting universities, research
centers, enterprises and regional
authorities (FI, IT, FR, UK, TR) for
sharing expertise on healthy
ageing, chronic diseases
management, prevention and
independent living
Networking exchange, mapping
analysis, networking
clustering, knowledge dissemination
Partners: i-live RDC (IT), Adebag RDC
(FR), South East Health Technologies
Alliance RDC (UK), Istanbul RDC (TR)
Regions of Knowledge (RoK), FP7
For more information:
www.jadeproject.eu/

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Express 2 Connect (E2C)
Preventing Loneliness & Isolation amongst
Elderly
Collaboration between different Living
Labs Helsinki, Amsterdam, Copenhagen &
Halmstad (and complementary partners)
with access to a part of the puzzle of how
to support people striving to maintain
social connectedness
Storytelling Game for iPad
Development of a so called people value
canvas, indicating the different steps to
take when developing a user driven
prototyping process
Connect: Design for Empathic Society -
How to design for
connectedness, indicating practical tools
such as portraits, co-creation etc. (ISBN
978 90 6369 331 2)
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
For more information:
www.express2connect.org

13. People Value Company
AMSTERDAM – COPENHAGEN – HELSINKI – HALMSTAD

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Confident Motion (COM’ON)
Mobile application (and a service
concept) for elderly in order to
safely & easily use public
transportation
Users involved in the design (through
surveys, ethnographic studies,
workshops & focus groups)
Services concepts being piloted in
each of the partner countries
Partners: Copenhagen LL( DN)
Enthoven Associates (BE), Concept
Factory (LU), XTEL (DN)
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
Laurea responsible for user testing
for the whole of the project including
implementing the pilot in Finland
More information: www.comon.lu

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Do It Yourself Smart Experiences (DIYSE)
Enabling people to easily create, setup
and control applications in their smart
living environments as well as in the
public IoT space, allowing them to leverage
aware services and smart objects for
obtaining highly personalized, social,
interactive, flowing experiences at home
and in the city
Target group: people facing challenges
towards ICT (elderly, children,
intellectually disabled)
User-driven
39 Partners from 7 European countries
ITEA 2
For more information: www.dyse.org

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Other examples...
Loppukiri (Final Spurt)
(www.loppukiriseniorit.blogspot.fi)
Co-production
Co-governance & P2P production of
public services
Taltioni (www.taltioni.fi/en)
Practical & personalised tools for the
maintenance of one’s own health and
well-being
Individuals own their information &
share with other users or healthcare
professionals
Kalasatama Smart City (Living Lab) in
Helsinki (www.forumvirium.fi/en)
Agile experimenting
Use of open data

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Ongoing initiatives..
Future Internet
Smart textiles in hospital context
Supportive APPSelfcare
Plan, implement & evaluate new ways for healthy
living with APPS
New methods with users, entrepreneurs & professionals
for eServices using APPs
Connecting/matchmaking universities with businesses

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Thank You!
Twitter @Laurea_RDI
LinkedIn group: Laurea Research, Development &
Innovation
Call for papers
ISJ -the Interdisciplinary Studies Journal
Laurea Living Labs Network invites professionals within the Focus Areas of Service Innovation and Design, e-
Health and e-Wellbeing, and Security Management to introduce their Research work and results in the ISJ - the
Interdisciplinary Studies Journal. This specific number will include articles that incorporate the focus areas in
respect to Smart Cities, Smart Specializations, and Smart Services. The results of this particular ISJ publication
will be used to create a handbook for the World Bank.
Important dates
Abstract 15.11.2013
Full Text 17.01.2014
Publishing Date 31.03.2014
Contact and Info
Email: isj@laurea.fi
Tuija Hirvikoski, tuija.hirvikoski@laurea.fi
Rob Moonen, rob.moonen@laurea.fi
Anna Kivilehto, anna.kivilehto@laurea.fi