100 Regional innovation Valleys: how living labs play an strategic role dealing with multiple transitions (green, digital and social)
TIME
Thursday 21 September
11.00 – 12.30
LOCATION
SUR 9
ORGANISER
DESCRIPTION
The multiple transitions are not happening separately. The climate transition needs the digital one and vice versa and both cannot be achieve without a deep social transformation. Using the EU program 100 Regional Innovation Valleys and other European and international experiences, we will explore transformative innovation strategies from the territorial level in a multiple transition era .
“Superlabs”, “collaboratories”, “regional innovation valleys”, seems social innovations favoring open and inclusive innovation ecosystems in territories at different scales. What kind of challenges, agendas, protocols, forms of actions and governance models are using for building such new societal instruments? What kind of new open and inclusive digital platform and networks can sustain this efforts?
Moderator: Artur Serra, I2Cat and Marta Martorell, i2Cat, Collaboratory Catalunya project
Panel Participants:
- Margherita Bacigalupo. JRC. 100 Regional Valley program.
- Rachel Berthiaume, LLio, Riviere du Loup. Quebec.
- Carolyn Hassan, Knowle West Media Center, Bristol UK.
- Gerasimos Sofianatos, Deputy Head of Unit-investments in high-capacity networks, European Commission
- Aurora Crespo, Innovation program manager, Andorra Living Lab
SPEAKERS
Margherita Bacigalupo
Research Officer in Partnerships for Regional Innovation
Margherita Bacigalupo
Research Officer in Partnerships for Regional InnovationResearcher Officer at the European Commission science hub, the Joint Research Centre working for Partnerships for Regional Innovation. Operate at the intersection of research, policy and practice. Focused on co-creation processes for transformative innovation. Work with stakeholders at all levels, sharing theoretical knowledge and practical tools. Multidisciplinary professional, with public and private sector experience in education and training, food manufacturing, electronic identity, robotics for dementia care, aviation and air traffic control, cultural heritage and advertising. Background in user studies, with a Diploma in Social Sciences, a BSc and an MSc (Laurea) in Human-Computer Interaction, a PhD in Robotics for Dementia Care, and a Post-graduate Certificate in Public Policy and Management. Specialities: Research project management, desk research, qualitative analysis, informing the design of policy measure and technological applications (devices or services). Strong in: Spotting Opportunities, Coping with ambiguity, uncertainty and risk, Working with others and Motivation and perseverance
Josep Maria Salanova Grau
Researcher CERTH/HIT
Josep Maria Salanova Grau
Researcher CERTH/HITJosep Maria Salanova Grau is a researcher at CERTH/HIT and holds a Civil engineering diploma and PhD in transport modelling from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona and a MSc in civil and transportation engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is leading the “Data analysis and modelling” laboratory and he is in the core team of Thessaloniki Smart Mobility Living Lab, which is an efficient member of ENoLL. His scientific interests concern research and developments in transport and mostly in algorithm and model development, mobility, intermodal transport and logistics as well as Data Science and Big Data at the transport domain. Additionally, he co leads with AustriaTech and JRC the ENoll Working Group on mobility.
Carolyn Hassan
Director at Knowle West Media Centre
Carolyn Hassan
Director at Knowle West Media CentreI am the Founder and Director of Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC), an internationally respected media arts charity. KWMC focuses on citizen centric issues ranging from fuel poverty, food production, energy, transport, health and wellbeing, to data and digital literacy, skills and training, business and enterprise development. I am a vocal advocate for communities and I champion approaches that enable smart citizenship (rather than imposing smart technologies on people). I am skilled at delivering projects that Build tools, skills and places with people, Shape the way we live in the future through experimentation and sharing ideas, Make visible the cultural and creative wealth of communities with the aim of building resilient communities that focus on the assets within them. I am experienced at working with citywide projects having been an active contributor towards the development of Connecting Bristol, Bristol’s Future Cities programme and European Green Capital. I have successfully delivered European projects within the European Regional Development Fund, and in the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Policy Support Programme. I sit on the board of Directors for Bristol2015, the company responsible for delivering Bristol’s prestigious European Green Capital Award. From 2009 to 2013 I sat on the regional Arts Council and participated in the transformation of the Arts Council England’s funding programme, ensuring processes were transparent, and fair and that “Great Art for Everyone” was more than a strapline. I have collaborated on many academic research projects with Universities, including those investigating future skills and training for young people, and in 2009 the University of West of England awarded me an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts in recognition of my contribution to community cohesion, social justice and support for education.
Rachel Berthiaume
LLio Riviere du Loup, Quebec. The Caneolabs experience
Rachel Berthiaume
LLio Riviere du Loup, Quebec. The Caneolabs experienceWith a Master's degree in Leisure, Culture and Tourism, Rachel is a recreologist, teacher-researcher and "contamineuse en chef" at Living Lab en innovation ouverte (LLio), a research center for innovative social practices. She is a co-founder and co-coordinator. More than one string to her bow, her contribution takes many forms: community mobilizer, process designer, animator and facilitator. Co-founder of several projects, including the Fabbulle Fablab, the Fabbulleux Mix, the Espace collaboratif ouvert, the Fabrégion du Bas-Saint-Laurent and La Maison des Labs, an international community she still leads.
Artur Serra
i2CAT deputy Director, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights lead
Artur Serra
i2CAT deputy Director, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights leadArtur Serra Hurtado (1954), Alicante (Spain). Deputy Director of the Foundation i2cat Foundation, research and innovation centre about the Internet. PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Barcelona, specialised in technological cultures. In 2006, launched the Cultural Ring, the first experimental network bandwidth for the cultural sector, connecting cultural centers in Catalonia and around the world, including Latin America through the Anilla Cultural Latinoamericana. Interested in the connection between the technology and the citizenry, since 1995 he developed some projects design and launched the first citizen networks in Spain and Europe (BCNet, Ravalnet, …) culminating them in the organisation of the First World Congress Citizens Network (Barcelona 2000). Currently, his line of research focuses on the design and implementation of living labs, new innovation structures open to the entire citizenry. In 2007 he launched the Citilab, the first European citizen lab.
