The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is an international non-profit organization with over 300 member Living Labs worldwide. Living Labs are public-private partnerships that involve end-users in the innovation process to develop, test, and validate new technologies, services, and products in real-life contexts. ENoLL facilitates collaboration between its members and engages with the European Commission on initiatives related to areas like smart cities, digital technologies, health, and more.

1. European Network
of
Living Labs

2. What is ENoLL?
• European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), Brussels based
international non-profit organization, facilitates the
cooperation and the exploitation of synergies between its
300+ members worldwide.
• Within ENoLL, the whole ‘innovation cycle’ i.e end-users,
SME’s, corporations, citizens, public sector, NGOs, academia
and the wider research communities, form a dedicated
networks of thematically organized Living Labs.
• Linked with European Commission policies and initiatives
and especially recognized value in Digital Agenda for
Europe (through Smart Cities, Future Internet), Design,
Social Innovation, Culture, Health, eGovernance etc etc……

3. • European Commission:
• Living Labs are Public-Private-People Partnership (PPPP)
for creation, prototyping, validating and testing new
technologies, services, products etc in real-life contexts
• Living Labs are bridging the gap between R&D and market
entrance (faster take up of R&D results) and enable SMEs to
tackle efficiently obstacles on local and regional markets
in the fragmented European market place

4. Short history of ENoLL...
• ENoLL was founded in 2006 as an informal network in the
framework of the Finnish EU-Presidency
• Grown into a non-profit international association
representing a diverse community of over 300 ENoLL
certified’Living Labs – globally!
• Association founded in 2010 with ENoLL office in Brussels
facilitating knowledge exchange, joint action and project
partnership ……

6. ENoLL Full members
• IBBT-iLab.o (BE)
• Flemish Living Lab Platform (BE)
• Northern Rural-Urban Living Lab (FI)
• Laurea Living Labs Network (FI)
• HumanTech LivingLab (FI)
• Suuntaamo Tampere Central Region Living Lab (FI)
• Helsinki Living Lab - Forum Virium Helsinki (FI)
• Ways Of Learning for the Future (FR)
• Telecommunication Networks Integrated Services Lab (EL)
• Trentino as a Lab (IT)
• Lighting Living Lab (PT)
• i2Cat- Catalonia Digital Lab (ES)
• espaitec Living Lab (ES)
• Bird Living Lab (ES)
• Consorcio Fernando de los Rios Living Lab (ES)
• Botnia Living Lab (SV)
• Manchester Living Lab (UK)
• City Lab Coventry (UK)
• The European Society of Concurrent Enterprising Network
(IT)
• Aalto University School of Economics (FI)
• ESADE (ES)
• Finnish Living Lab Network of Universities of Applied
Sciences (FI)
• …

7. • But that’s not all
• Check out all the +300 Living Labs on
www.openlivinglabs.eu or search by
country or by keyword…

8. ENoLL Office services
• ENoLL Office in Brussels facilitates knowledge
exchange, joint action and project
partnerships between the members:
• - Organizes networking events, workshops etc. to exchange
information and best practice
• - Disseminates information on EU funding and project
opportunities, supports to build project consortia and
develop joint projects
• - Influences EU policies and engages in debate with EU
institutions, takes part in EU Consultations etc
• - Partner in key strategic initiatives and projects of
strategic importance and benefit to the whole network
• …

9. Living Labs, Smart Cities
& Future Internet
Smart cities: policies,
application pull,
public data, citizens initiatives
[ Citizens ]
Living lab: User-driven
playground for co- creating
Future Internet testbeds as and validating innovative
technology platforms scenarios and services

10. Living Labs, Smart Cities
& Future Internet
[ Citizens ]
Living lab: User-driven
playground for co- creat
Future Internet testbeds as and validating innovativ
technology platforms scenarios and services
20/09/21
20/09//2012

11. ENoLL in projects
• ENoLL is a partner in initiatives and projects of
strategic importance and benefit to the whole network
o EPIC
o SmartIP
o Concord (FI PPP)
o InnoMatNet
o PERIPHERIA
o FUSEPOOL –
o CENTRALAB
o SPECIFI
o CitySDK
o IDeALL
• …

12. Living Labs & Cloud
• EPIC Cloud and the City
• The EPIC project solution combines cloud
computing with 'Future of the Internet'
technologies to provide cities with new
tools and possibilities for the creation
and sharing of efficient, effective and
economic 'smarter' city services.
• …
• …

13. Living Labs & Cloud
• See the EPIC Cloud and the City
Brussels Pilot : Relocation Service
• https://portal.epic-cities.eu/wps/
myportal
• …
• …

14. Living Labs &
Smart Citizens
• Focus of SmartIP is on the challenge of transforming
public services by empowering smart citizens’ who
are able to use and co-produce innovative Internet-
enabled services within emerging ‘smart’ cities.
• Project aims to take the experience developed by a
wide range of existing user-driven, open innovation
initiatives in Europe, particularly those developed
through Living Labs, and to apply this experience to
engaging citizens as active co-producers of public
services
• …
• …

15. Living Labs &
Open Data
• City Service Development Kit CitySDK
project is being developed to transfer Smart
City applications from city to city using
an open source service developer toolkit to
help make it easier for developers to create
new and innovative applications.
• …
• …

16. Living Labs &
Internet of Things
• Smart Peripherial cities for sustainable
lifestyles
• Periphèria applies creativity and Future
Internet Technologies to address the
sustainability issues of your city.
• …
• …

17. Living Labs &
Future Internet
• The Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-
PPP) Programme brings public and private actors
together to “advance Europe's competitiveness in
Future Internet technologies and systems and to
support the emergence of Future Internet-enhanced
applications of public and social relevance”.
• Industry-led: the PPP is a short-term (i.e. 5 year)
initiative helping competitiveness and growth of
industries in the internet value chain (networks,
services, applications)
• European-focussed: helping to grow the vibrant
European Internet industry – into a European
industrial stronghold; and,
• User-driven: as services and applications become ever
more agile and changing, users play a key role in
driving application led initiative.
• …

18. Future Internet PPP

19. Living Labs &
BIG data
• FUSEPOOL will deliver an intelligent user
adaptive matching tool (partner matching,
funding matching, patent research, and other
possible scenarios). Key asset: information
provided by the user (behavior /
crowdsourcing and uploads). User data credo:
accuracy improves with quantity and
quality of user data while variety (breadth)
increases with number of users
• Open Calls to be published soon to Living
Labs, SMEs and developers – Stay tuned!
• …
• …

20. Living Labs &
Materials & Design
•
InnoMatNet aims to advance the goal of an
innovation society by developing a flexible
approach that establishes teams of
innovators, linking materials researchers
with industry (particularly the creative
industry) and other innovation actors,
providing support to help bring new
products and processes to market
• !
• …

21. Living Labs &
Design for All
•
IDeALL project brings together communities, driven by
user-centred innovation, namely design centres
specialised in “Design for All together with Living Labs.
Focus:
Lack of initiatives aimed to demonstrate the added value of
the integrations between designers and Living Labs,
Lack of operative processes for the collaboration/
integration between the two different communities;
Establishing policy action for permanently integrating
design in the new product / service for SMEs;
Specific action for the Enlarged European Union members
Education, Training and awareness raising initiatives.

22. ENoLL Coopeation
Agreements
o CAISEC (Beijing City Administration Information
System and Equipment Center)
o UNITED (Ubiquitous Network Industry and
Technology Development Forum)
o FAO (The Food and Agricultural Organization of
United Nations)
o LLiSA (Living Labs in Southern Africa)
o EBN (European BIC Network)
o World Bank (Open Development Technology Alliance)
• !

23. Recent ENoLL activities
• ENoLL contribution to the European
Innovation Partnership on Active and
Healthy Ageing (EIP AHA)
• ENoLL response to the European
Commission consultation on Action Plan
for Entrepreneurship

24. Find out more…
• www.openlivinglabs.eu
• Follow us on Twitter @openlivinglabs and on facebook
• Subscribe to ENoLL newsletter!
• www.fireball.eu
• http://smartcitiesnetwork.eu/ (beta)
• www.apollon-pilot.eu
• www.fi-ppp.eu
• http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/
livinglabs

25. See you at the Creative Media Days in Ghent (BE) ?
www.creativemediadays.be
Featuring Kent Larson (MIT Labs, Boston, US),
European Commission with many more
& Launch of the Art&D Call of the iMinds
Want to showcase YOUR Living Lab active in
creativity, media, culture and/or education?

26. !
Anything you want to know more
about?
Contact us at the ENoLL Office
info(at)enoll.org