Let´s harmonize our Living Labs
Our Living Labs need business models that will enable their sustainability beyond a project’s lifecycle, optimal use of time and resources and maximum exploitation of research results from the local community. A key solution to this challenge is to work together towards a Harmonized proposal of services and procedures.
This session will be inspired by the initial results of VITALISE (H2020 project) in the process of Harmonizing Living Labs. An interactive discussion and workshop will take place, aiming to create a common understanding about the services and tools each Living Lab is using. If you are wondering how we can define co-creation, what is the exact meaning of a workshop and what is the difference between real-life testing and prototyping testing, join us to find the answers together.
AGENDA
Welcome and objectives
Despoina Petsani, Research Associate, Lab of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lab of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Setting the scene – Panel discussion
Dimitri Schuurman,Manager Business & Domain Experts Competence Center, Imec
Tuija Hirvikoski, Director at Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Panagiotis Bamidis, Professor of Medical Physics and Informatics in Medical Education, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Interactive sessions
Silia Petronikolou, Research Associate, Lab of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Despoina Petsani, Research Associate, Lab of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Teemu Santonen, Principal lecturer,Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Take-home messages and closing of the event
Despoina Petsani, Research Associate, Lab of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Teemu Santonen, Principal lecturer,Laurea University of Applied Science
PANELISTS
Despoina Petsani
Research Assistant
Despoina Petsani
Research AssistantDespoina Petsani received her diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2017 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her thesis was part of the iPrognosis project (H2020). She is currently a postgraduate student in Medical Informatics MSc program and Research Assistant in the Assistive Technologies and Silver Science Research Group in the Lab of Medical Physics, Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where she is working in CAPTAIN project (H2020). Her research interests lie in the area of silver science and the intervention for older adults and vulnerable population in the field of serious games and medical decision support systems
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
President, European Network of Living Labs, Thess-AHALL Researcher,
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
President, European Network of Living Labs, Thess-AHALL Researcher,Dr Evdokimos Konstantinidis is the leader of the Assistive Technologies and Silver Science Research Group in the Lab of Medical Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received the Diploma in electronic engineering from the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, in 2004, the M.Sc. degree in medical informatics in 2008 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the Ph.D. degree in the Laboratory of Medical Physics of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2015. His research interests lie predominately in the area of medical informatics, particularly within assistive technologies (silverscience, silvergaming, mobile health)
Dimitri Schuurman
Team Lead Business & Domain Experts imec's Digital Transformation Department
Dimitri Schuurman
Team Lead Business & Domain Experts imec's Digital Transformation DepartmentDimitri Schuurman leads the Business & Domain Expertise Center at imec's Digital Transformation Department focussing on the domains Smart Cities, Mobility & Public Health. He holds a PhD on Living Lab organizations from Ghent University & the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. Together with his imec colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific Innovation Management approach & framework (called Innovatrix) which is specifically designed for multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary innovation projects. He also leads a Special Interest Group on Living Labs in the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and is active in the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) as a Living Labs specialist. His main interests and research topics are situated in the domains of open innovation, user innovation and innovation management.
Panagiotis Bamidis
Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Panagiotis Bamidis
Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Panagiotis Bamidis is a Professor of Medical Physics, Informatics and Medical Education and Director of the Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation in the School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. He designs, implements and evaluates IT and Assistive Technologies systems that improve everyday activities of elderly or other vulnerable groups and improves their health or life quality or improves the education and training of health professionals. He conducts research that attempts to understand how the brain reacts to different stimuli, technological or educational interventions, as well as, the development and evolution of human emotions and sleep transitions. Co-creation and Living Lab approaches are within his active interests. He is the co-ordinator of seven large European projects, and the principal investigator for many national and international funded projects. He is the President of the Hellenic Biomedical Technology Society, HL7 Hellas, the international Society of Applied Neuroscience, a member of the Administration Boards of other societies and patient associations, the Chairman/Organiser of some 19 international conferences and several national Biomedical Technology conferences. Since 2012 he has established LLM Care ecosystem (www.llmcare.gr), the business exploitation of the LLM project, which is a two-star reference site of the EIP-on-AHA. In 2013 he established the Active and Healthy Ageing Living Lab in Thessaloniki (ThessAHALL; http://www.aha- livinglabs.com/) which in 2018 became a full member of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). In 2017, he became a visiting Professor of Medical Education Technology, Innovation and Change for the Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME) of the University of Leeds, UK. He received Prizes for the Best Track Record in funded research projects (AUTH Research Committee 2009; AUTH Dean of Health Sciences 2016) and the Best overall high/extra-ordinary academic performance (AUTH Dean of Health Sciences 2018, 2019, 2020).
Tuija Hirvikoski
Laurea University Director
Tuija Hirvikoski
Laurea University DirectorDr Tuija Hirvikoski is currently a director at Laurea University of Applied Sciences responsible for the University’s strategic stakeholder management. During her Vice-Presidency, Laurea become Finland’s most successful University of Applied Sciences receiving multiple awards. She has held managerial positions at various Finnish higher education institutions and governmental institutions focusing on sustainable regional and societal development. Hirvikoski’s specific area of expertise is related to multi-stakeholder, user-centred innovation design and ecosystem development (Living Labs). She has received a PhD in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystems), MSc in Education and MSc in Administration. As a sought-after advisor, she has provided various audiences with inspirational examples and research results concerning the Finnish education and open innovation ecosystems. Hirvikoski was the President of The European Network of Living Labs between 2015-2018 and has served as a council member in various organisations such as the Uusimaa Regional Coordination Committee, Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Centre R&D Unit, Tech villa Ltd (a Finnish technology centre), Helsinki Information Technology Association, the Talent Cultivation Program for Smart Living Industry in Taiwan, and the Centre for Skills and Post-Secondary Education (SPSE) in Canada.
Teemu Santonen
Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Teemu Santonen
Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Teemu Santonen received his Ph.D. (Econ.) degree in Information Systems Science from Aalto University in Finland in 2005. Currently he is acting as a “Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS)” principal lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Finland. Prior his academic career Santonen was working over a decade as a consult and a development manager in leading Finnish financial, media and ICT sector organizations. Santonen is also a scientific panel member of International Society of Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and is former board member of Finnish Strategic Management Society. In Laurea Santonen has been leading Service Design and co-creation research program. Currently he is managing co-creation and business development activities for three major EU-funded project having a total budget over 10 MEUR and including 41 partners across Europe. The Finnish Inventor Support Association have honored Santonen’s novel crowdsourcing based open innovation platform as the best school related innovation in Finland. As of today he has publish over 60 scientific paper. His current research interest focuses on “Open Innovation management”, “Living labs in context of health/wellbeing and circular economy”, and “Social Network Analysis (SNA)”.
Vasileia Petronikolou
Research associate in the Lab of Medical Physics
Vasileia Petronikolou
Research associate in the Lab of Medical PhysicsMy name is Vasileia Petronikolou and I graduated from the Department of Psychology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2018, and since then I am a licensed psychologist. I have completed my theoretical seminar training in Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and now I am finishing my training in Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy. For the last 1,5 year I work as a research associate in the Lab of Medical Physics, School of Medicine of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at several projects, such as the VITALISE H2020 project, MusicPlast, ADHD360, DeepRaft, InAdvance and LLM Long Lasting Memories.