Day 1 starts with Welcome Words
Panagiotis Bamidis
Assoc. Prof., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Panagiotis Bamidis
Assoc. Prof., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Panagiotis Bamidis is currently Assoc. Prof. in the School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 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. Co-creation and Living Lab approaches are within his active interests. He is the co-ordinator of six large European projects, and the principal investigator for many national and international funded projects. He is the President of the Hellenic Biomedical Technology Society, the international Society of Applied Neuroscience, a member of the Administration Boards of other societies and patient associations, the Chairman/Organiser of some 14 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 candidate 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 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 Best overall high/extra-ordinary academic performance (AUTH Dean of Health Sciences 2018, 2019).
Zsuzsanna Bodi
ENoLL Director
Zsuzsanna Bodi
ENoLL DirectorAs former Living Lab practitioner and current Association Director, Bodi has worked with ENoLL’s 170 active Living Labs. She is also actively following the European Commission’s DG CONNECT’s OISPG group’s activities. Working with and for these valuable networks has allowed Bodi to gain a keen appreciation for and a deep insight into the most recent research findings and future aims of the Living Lab and Open Innovation phenomena. Bodi holds a French MBA-MAE degree in Management and Business Studies (Université Jean Moulin, Lyon). Previously she obtained a M.Sc. in Engineering and Management degree at the Technical University of Budapest and has strong focus on User Centered Product Design. Throughout her 10 years’ experience as a Project manager, she gained knowledge from her work on 15+ national and European projects focusing on the multi stakeholder and end-user engagement, citizen driven and co-creation aspect of the following topics and areas: Future Internet; Smart Cities and Mobility; Cross-border, Cross-sector Collaboration, Game design & serious gaming; STEM Learning Analytics; Big Data; Climate Change; Design and Creative Industries.
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
Leader of Assistive Technologies
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
Leader of Assistive TechnologiesDr 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)
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Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab
Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab
Fernando Vilariño is Associate Director of the Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor of the Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is currently lecturing in Robotics and Multimedia Systems. His research has been linked to diverse areas of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and Robotics. His current research is focused on the development of the link between physical and digital objects. He has led different projects related to citizen science through the implementation of a model for Living Labs in the context of Open Innovation. He has participated in the different workshops and invited talks in the context of ICT and culture. Dr. Vilariño has been awarded with the Spanish Gov. Ramon y Cajal Grant (2010), and Google Academy Award (2014) for his research. As Associate Director for the CVC he has contributed to the technology transfer of Computer Vision technology with setup of a number of start-ups in the field of Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He is co-leading the implementation of the Regional Computer Vision Ecosystem, the regional economic driver of AI. He has developed a model for innovation based on living labs that allows for multi-stake holder user centric approach. Fernando Vilariño is the current Chairman of the European Network of Living Labs.
Nikolaos Papaioannou
Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Nikolaos Papaioannou
Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Professor Nikolaos Papaioannou received his diploma from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) in 1988, where he also completed his PhD thesis on the areas of Histopathology, Immunohistopathology, Electron microscopy in 1991. To utilize the knowledge in General and Anatomic Pathology and research effort he improved diagnosis and treatment of Animal Diseases and Laboratory Animal pathology. Also, one of his main academic goals has been to initiate and train young talents in this area with neuropathology, occular pathology and discovery pathology as his core research interests. He has been an academic staff of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 1991. He has been the Dean of the AUTH School of Veterinary Medicine since 2017 and Head of the Department of Pathology since 2012. He has presented as speaker or invited speaker 60 scientific papers in national and international congresses and symposiums. He has published more than 195 original scientific papers in state and international journals (Total IF=197,543), while his scientific work is cited by 1956 researchers. In order to expand his training and research experience, Prof. Papaioannou has taken sabbatical to the Departments of Pathology in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Zurich and Utrecht, as well as to the School of Veterinary Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He participated as research team member in 16 research projects, while he was the coordinator of four other European and national funded projects. He is a prominent member of the Greek Veterinary Society, the Greek Microscopy Society, the European Society of Veterinary Pathologists and the European Society of Veterinary Neuropathologists. Prof. Papaioannou has been elected new Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) in June 2019.
Apostolos Tzitzikostas
Governor of the Central Macedonia Region
Apostolos Tzitzikostas
Governor of the Central Macedonia RegionApostolos Tzitzikostas was born on September 2, 1978. He studied Government and International Relations at Georgetown University, in Washington DC. After graduating in 2000, he worked as an intern at the Office of the President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States Congress. In 2002 he obtained a Master’s Degree on European Public Policy and Economics from the University College of London. After his studies he created his own company in Thessaloniki on the field of production, processing and standardization of dairy products, based on organic standards, by the name AGROKTIMA VRACHIAS. He was elected Member of the Greek Parliament, at the National Elections of September 2007, with the “Nea Dimokratia” Party, in the First District of Thessaloniki. In the Regional Elections of November 2010 he was elected Vice-Governor of Central Macedonia and Head of the Metropolitan Area of Thessaloniki. In the Regional Elections of May 2014, Apostolos Tzitzikostas was elected Governor of the Region of Central Macedonia, obtaining 71.03%- one of the highest percentage ever recorded in regional elections in Greece. In July 2017, he was elected Vice-President of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union and Head of the Delegation to the Commission. In the Regional Elections of the 26th of May 2019, he was re-elected Governor of the Region of Central Macedonia, obtaining 62.04%.
Theodoros Dardavesis
Dean of School Medicine, AUTH
Theodoros Dardavesis
Dean of School Medicine, AUTHDardavessis I. Theodore, Professor of Hygiene and Social Medicine, Dean of Faculty of Health Sciences: The scientific interests of Prof Theodore Dardavessis concern the fields of Hygiene, Social and Preventive Medicine. His scientific work includes 200 papers, published in peer-reviewed Greek and international scientific journals with more than 1000 citations. He has also completed the editing of 11 scientific publications and has written chapters in scholarly writings as well monographs and books. From December 01, 2017 to the present day, he holds the position of Dean of Faculty of Health Sciences and he has been Head of Department of Biological Sciences and preventive Medicine. He is Member of Editorial Board of six Scientific Journals, Reviewer of papers for Scientific Journals and Conferences, Reviewer of Research programs, Member of Scientific Committees of five Associations and twenty-nine Medical Conferences, Member of Organizing Committees of six International and forty-two Pan-Hellenic Conferences, Member of Executive Boards on five Scientific Societies and nine Medico-social Organizations. He has participated in more than 284 Conferences, Symposia, Round Tables and other events as Rapporteur or Speaker. He has been teaching various subjects such as Hygiene, Social Medicine, Geriatrics-Gerontology, Health Population, Epidemiology, Public and Personal Hygiene, Ethical and legal rules governing the exercise of the medical function, Occupational Health at Undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses at the Medical School AUTh, Alexander Technological Educational Intitute of Thessaloniki and National School of Public Health. He has participated in more than 10 funded by the Greek State research programmes/studies.
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Maria Rosaria Ceccarelli
Chief, Trade Facilitation Section - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Maria Rosaria Ceccarelli
Chief, Trade Facilitation Section - United Nations Economic Commission for EuropeMaria Rosaria Ceccarelli has more than 21 years of experience in Trade & Transport Facilitation and electronic Business within UNECE where she is Chief of the Trade Facilitation Section and OiC Director of the Economic Cooperation and Trade Division. She is responsible among other of the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and electronic Business (UN/CEFACT). She manages a group of some 800 experts working on Trade Facilitation and eBusiness projects to produce Trade Facilitation Recommendations and eBusiness standards, that can foster growth in international trade and related services and that is actively working on Blockchain, Internet-of-Things applications. In her former position in the UNECE’s Transport Division, where she has been working for 12 years, she has organized and delivered training to promote the development of border-crossing and transport facilitation and provided advisory services on customs questions affecting transport.
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Geraldine Barry
Adviser to the Deputy Director General, DG Joint Research Centre - European Commission
Geraldine Barry
Adviser to the Deputy Director General, DG Joint Research Centre - European CommissionGeraldine Barry is Adviser to the Deputy Director General, DG Joint Research Centre - European Commission. She has long-standing experience in the promotion, management and exploitation of research. As Head of Communication at the European Commission's science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre, she was responsible for all aspects of communication with a special emphasis on corporate image and branding, managing a communications team spread across the JRC's six sites. Prior to this, Geraldine was Head of Unit for Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at the JRC, where responsibilities included management of the European Communities; intellectual property portfolio. Her current role as adviser to the Deputy Director General focuses on organisational development issues, engagement and outreach and policy communication.
Svetoslav Mihaylov
European Commission - DG Connect
Svetoslav Mihaylov
European Commission - DG ConnectSvetoslav Mihaylov is a Policy Officer in Unit H5 – Smart Mobility and Living at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. His areas of responsibility are interoperability and standards for Smart Cities, smart appliances - smart home, smart energy, data centres/ICT sustainability, etc. In this position he has lead the creation of the SAREF ontology for smart appliances and its extension in other IoT areas and he is leading the work on urban platforms under the European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and Communities. In the period 1999-2013, Svetoslav Mihaylov held different positions at the largest telecom operator in Belgium Proximus and was responsible for introducing new technologies, creating network solutions, defining the strategy and roadmap, etc. Prior to this he worked on a contract for the European Commission’s DG XIII Telecommunications and several other organisations/companies. He has an MSc in Telecommunications from Technical University of Sofia (plus Technical University of Denmark), postgraduate diploma in Wireless Telecommunications from Oxford University and postgraduate credit in Political and Economic Systems from Georgetown University.
Simon Bensasson
OK!Thess President
Simon Bensasson
OK!Thess President
Simon Bensasson has a degree in Architecture from the University of Thessaloniki and another in Computer Science from the University of London. After a period of advising and training companies in the UK in the use of computer applications in 1980 he set up a software house in Cambridge (Bensasson & Chalmers Ltd) developing novel Database Management Systems. In 1989 he joined the European Commission in the then ESPRIT programme where in 1991 he became head of the Basic Research Unit. In that capacity, he conceived and promoted the concept of NoE (Networks of Excellence) which could be considered a very early form of living labs. Compulog, ELSNet, i3 are some examples. Around the mid- nineties he conceived the FET programme of which one component (FET Open) is still “alive”. Following a period as HoU for international cooperation, he retired and moved to Greece. Elected member to the Thessaloniki City Council where he currently serves as its president, he set up OK!Thess, an incubator/accelerator for start ups in the region as well as a home to all activities that catalyse the creation of a innovation ecosystem.
Patrik Kolar
Head of Department ‘LIFE and H2020 Energy, Environment, Resources’ in the EU Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Patrik Kolar
Head of Department ‘LIFE and H2020 Energy, Environment, Resources’ in the EU Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized EnterprisesPatrik Kolar studied chemistry and obtained his PhD in chemistry at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1995. From 1997 to 1998 he worked as Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. From 2004 to 2007 he was a "Science attache" at the Permanent Representation of Slovenia to the EU in Brussels. He joined the European Commission in 2007 and worked as Head of Unit in several Directorates (Health, Bioeconomy and Industrial Technologies). During his work for the Commission he contributed to designing and implementing EU Research and Innovation (R&I) policies – in particular the Framework Programmes for R&I (the 7th Framework Programme and Horizon 2020). In October 2017 he was appointed Head of Department B (LIFE and Horizon 2020 Energy, Environment, Resources) in the Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises (EASME). His Department is responsible for implementation of the LIFE programme as well as the Energy efficiency part of the "Energy Challenge" and the "Enviroment/Climate Challenge" of the Horizon 2020. During his scientific career he co-authored over 20 original scientific and review papers and he also wrote several papers on EU R&I policy.
Jean-François Aguinaga
Head of Unit D2 Future Urban and Mobility Systems - DG RTD
Jean-François Aguinaga
Head of Unit D2 Future Urban and Mobility Systems - DG RTDJean-François AGUINAGA is Head of Unit at the European Commission. He was trained at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, one of the leading French business schools, has a PhD in roman languages and civilisations from the University of Paris, as well as a grade in public administration. He joined the European Commission in September 1994, within a team in charge of economic co-operation with Latin America. In 2002, he joined the Directorate General Enterprise and Industry where he was the sherpa drafting the financial instruments for SMEs (2007-2013). Between 2006 and 2010, he was first responsible for the EIC network, then for the phasing-in of the Enterprise Europe Network, the biggest network of business and innovation services ever set-up with the support of the European Commission. Since May 2011, he has been in charge of the Unit dealing with “textiles, fashion, design and creative industries”. Since 2017, Jean-François Aguinaga leads the Unit for surface transports in DG RTD, which added future urban systems in June 2019.
Seth Schultz
Founder/CEO at Urban Breakthroughs
Seth Schultz
Founder/CEO at Urban BreakthroughsThe work I am currently focused on is developing a space-race-era mobilization of research and innovation on cities and climate change. This is being done through the first-of-its-kind, cities focused, research and innovation agenda recently launched as the #Innovate4Cities initiative at the Global Covenant of Mayors. I am a cross-disciplinary enthusiast with a penchant for climate-driven, problem-solving urban development solutions that can be taken at a global scale. In order to combat climate change, we need solutions at the speed and scale required at the local level. During my more recent work experience in the non-profit sector at the US Green Building Council, the Clinton Foundation, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and now the Global Covenant of Mayors, I have planned and executed organizational and operational change focused on urban sustainability. Using my consulting background, and my ongoing research on cities, governance, adaptation and mitigation, I have delivered world-class analysis and insight; raised millions in fundraising; built consensus among local and global stakeholders; been a frequent speaker on cities and climate change; managed staff and budgets; and developed programs, projects and organizations that make a real impact. I love encountering “unsolvable” problems. The bigger the problem, the more interested I am. Big believer in the power of collaboration and networks in order to accelerate the knowledge transfer that leads cities to take action and implement solutions. Proven track record in spearheading the development of new processes, frameworks and methodologies to collect data and drive urban innovation and efficiency through helping cities cultivate a deeper understanding of their challenges and mapping clear paths to solutions.
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Antti Ahlava
Professor, Vice President (Campus Development), Aalto University
Antti Ahlava
Professor, Vice President (Campus Development), Aalto University
Dr. Antti Ahlava, architect SAFA, is full professor in Emergent Design Methodologies and Vice President of Aalto University (Campus Development), Helsinki, Finland. He has been responsible for the regeneration and construction of Aalto University campus at one of the biggest technology and design clusters in Europe. He has been a visiting professor in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Vienna and Shanghai and was recently a visiting fellow at Harvard GSD and Head of Architecture Department at Aalto University. Ahlava’s expertise is cross-disciplinary campus development, urban ecosystems and sustainable architecture and urban design. His other current projects include Aviapolis Centre at Helsinki airport and the urban renewal of Espoo and Finnoo centres in Finland. Ahlava's earlier commissions include Munktellstaden housing development in Eskilstuna, Sweden and the urban design of Helsinki City Hall quartiers. Ahlava has won prizes in international architecture competitions, including first prize in Andermatt city centre competition and in Espoo City Hospital competition (with K2S Architects) and second prizes in Katara Hills competition in Qatar, Kouvola centre regeneration and Helsinki Housing reform competition 2019. He is one of the authors of the educational and social innovation School as a Service.
Dasy Papathanassopoulou
National Coordinator of the WHO Hellenic Healthy Cities Network Project
Dasy Papathanassopoulou
National Coordinator of the WHO Hellenic Healthy Cities Network ProjectDasy Papathanasopoulou is the National Coordinator of the WHO Hellenic Healthy Cities Network Project, and has been Chair of the Advisory Committee, WHO Europe for the National Networks, since 2013. She is a Sociologist and a Social Worker. From 1982 until 2010 she worked for the City of Athens as Head of various departments within the Social Sector. She was involved in the Healthy Cities Project in 1993. She worked for the implementation of the Healthy Cities Project in Athens, as the Coordinator from 1993 to 2010. In addition she worked towards founding the Hellenic Healthy Cities Network and served on the Board of Directors from 1994 to 2010. She has been a WHO temporary consultant on several occasions and in a number of missions. Since 2014 she is also the CEO of the company City & Region Planning, consultants for Local Authorities.
Linden Farrer
Policy Officer - European Commission - DG Research & Innovation
Linden Farrer
Policy Officer - European Commission - DG Research & Innovation
Linden Farrer is Policy officer in Unit RTD-G4 ‘Open Science’ of DG Research & Innovation (European Commission). Before joining the Commission he worked at civil society organisations in Brussels, primarily on European research projects, and for local government in the south-east of England on employability. His background is in the social sciences and humanities.
Nicos Komninos
Professor -URENIO Research, Aristotle University & Intelspace Technologies
Nicos Komninos
Professor -URENIO Research, Aristotle University & Intelspace Technologies
Nicos Komninos is professor emeritus at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is the founder of URENIO Research and has coordinated numerous projects under the European research and territorial development programmes. Currently he is CEO of Intelspace Technologies SA, a company doing research on technologies and software platforms for smart cities. Alongside to research he took part as an expert in the development of smart cities, technology parks, and innovation strategies in most EU countries; in UNIDO activities for innovation in developing countries; in the group of experts that drafted the OECD Innovation Strategy; in evaluation of research in the EU, Nordic countries, Asia and New Zealand; and in research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3) in many regions of Europe. He holds a master’s degree of Architecture-Engineering (AUTh), post-graduate studies in Semantics, and a PhD from the EHESS Paris. His expertise is on two interrelated areas (1) intelligent / smart cities and (2) cyber-physical systems of innovation. He has published about 170 papers, including and 12 books, that received several thousand citations. More at https://www.komninos.eu/
Marc Duponcel
Head of sector Research, DG for Agriculture and Rural Development Research and Innovation (AGRI B-2)
Marc Duponcel
Head of sector Research, DG for Agriculture and Rural Development Research and Innovation (AGRI B-2) Marc Duponcel is an agricultural engineer and holds a PhD in economics. Prior to working at the. European Commission Marc was FAO staff, posted at the FAO sub-regional office for central and Eastern Europe in Budapest. In recent years, Marc has been heading the research team in the unit “research and innovation” in DG AGRI. Among other responsibilities he follows the discussions of the G-20 Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientist and participated in the working group on agro-ecosystem living labs chaired by Canada and the USA.
Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab
Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab Fernando Vilariño is Associate Director of the Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor of the Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is currently lecturing in Robotics and Multimedia Systems. His research has been linked to diverse areas of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and Robotics. His current research is focused on the development of the link between physical and digital objects. He has led different projects related to citizen science through the implementation of a model for Living Labs in the context of Open Innovation. He has participated in the different workshops and invited talks in the context of ICT and culture. Dr. Vilariño has been awarded with the Spanish Gov. Ramon y Cajal Grant (2010), and Google Academy Award (2014) for his research. As Associate Director for the CVC he has contributed to the technology transfer of Computer Vision technology with setup of a number of start-ups in the field of Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He is co-leading the implementation of the Regional Computer Vision Ecosystem, the regional economic driver of AI. He has developed a model for innovation based on living labs that allows for multi-stake holder user centric approach. Fernando Vilariño is the current Chairman of the European Network of Living Labs.
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Dimitri Schuurman
Team Lead Business & User Research - imec.livinglabs
Dimitri Schuurman
Team Lead Business & User Research - imec.livinglabs
Dimitri Schuurman is the Team Lead of the Business model and User Research Team at imec.livinglabs. He holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences from Ghent University in Belgium. Together with his imec colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific living lab offering targeted at entrepreneurs in which he has managed over 100 innovation projects. He is also active in the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and 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.
Breakfast Session with ENoLL Action Oriented Task Forces Coordinators and discussion leaders
Pieter Ballon
Director SMIT imec.livinglabs, ENoLL Secretary
Pieter Ballon
Director SMIT imec.livinglabs, ENoLL SecretaryProf. Pieter Ballon is the Director of the research group SMIT (Studies on Media, Innovation and Technologies). He was appointed the first Brussels Smart City Ambassador and is also the International Secretary of the European Network of Living Labs. Prof. Ballon holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and an MA in Modern History. Since 2009, he has taught Communication Sciences at the VUB (Free University of Brussels). His expertise lies in the Smart City area for both Brussels and the Flanders Region, on the subject of which he has recently published the book “Smart Cities : hoe technologie onze steden leefbaar houdt en slimmer maakt”.
Penny Evans
Assistant Director
Penny Evans
Assistant DirectorAssistant Director, Knowle West Media Centre, Penny Evans works alongside the Director developing programmes that respond to future need, promoting participation, involvement and inclusion in the delivery of the project. One of her key areas of responsibility is strategic planning and development for: The Factory. She currently sits on the Engaged University Steering group at University of Bristol.
Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab
Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab Fernando Vilariño is Associate Director of the Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor of the Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is currently lecturing in Robotics and Multimedia Systems. His research has been linked to diverse areas of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and Robotics. His current research is focused on the development of the link between physical and digital objects. He has led different projects related to citizen science through the implementation of a model for Living Labs in the context of Open Innovation. He has participated in the different workshops and invited talks in the context of ICT and culture. Dr. Vilariño has been awarded with the Spanish Gov. Ramon y Cajal Grant (2010), and Google Academy Award (2014) for his research. As Associate Director for the CVC he has contributed to the technology transfer of Computer Vision technology with setup of a number of start-ups in the field of Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He is co-leading the implementation of the Regional Computer Vision Ecosystem, the regional economic driver of AI. He has developed a model for innovation based on living labs that allows for multi-stake holder user centric approach. Fernando Vilariño is the current Chairman of the European Network of Living Labs.
Joelle Mastelic
Manager
Joelle Mastelic
ManagerProf Dr Joelle Mastelic is the Manager of the Energy Living Lab, professor and research in the Energy Institute of the University of Applied Science Western Switzerland. She holds a phd from University of Lausanne on the role of Living Labs in the energy field. She is also an organiser and moderator of different international conferences.
Artur Serra
i2CAT deputy Director
Artur Serra
i2CAT deputy DirectorArtur 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.
Luis Navarro López
Director General
Luis Navarro López
Director GeneralLuis is a telecom engineer, with more than 15 years of experience in aligning technology and social needs. Managing Director at the Guadalinfo Living Lab network, composed of more than 800 living Labs located in all the municipalities under 20.000 inhabitants all over Andalusia, coordinating an expert group responsible of the LL network support and the Social Innovation and ICTs regional and international strategies, from a Smart Rural perspective. Especially active and interested in the human centered environment, expert on gamification, social innovation, and impact assessment methodologies. Currently involved in the regional certification of Digital Competencies (based on DIGCOMP) and the development of entrepreneurship competencies strategies (based on ENTRECOMP). Responsible of the international affairs with a long track of international projects development. Passionate about intelligent crowd tendencies, open innovation, open science and living labs methodologies and experiences. Long research experience on the optical communications field. At the moment involved in social innovation, smart rural and internationalization strategies Especially active and interested in the human centered environment, expert on gamification, social innovation, crowdfunding and impact assessment methodologies. Responsible of the international affairs with a long track of projects development. Passionate about intelligent crowd tendencies, open innovation and co-creation methodologies
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.
Grigoris Chatzikostas
Business Developer
Grigoris Chatzikostas
Business DeveloperMr. Grigoris Chatzikostas is a Business Developer in the field of advanced ICT technologies for the agrifood sector. As Head of the Business Development Department of BioSense, he is building the relationships of the Institute with industry and academia across Europe. His past experience in business consulting and IT start-ups has played a key role in developing the aggressive entrepreneurial mentality of BioSense as a results-driven Center of Excellence. As an expert in European projects, Grigoris is managing multi-national and cross-sectoral consortia, writing proposals for EU funding and coordinating large-scale projects that promote tech-enabled entrepreneurship in the agrifood sector. In the past 15 years he has managed projects exceeding the total value of 95 M EUR. As an engaging public speaker and trainer, he makes complex subjects related to EU funding and technologies accessible and easy to understand. He also offers mentoring and strategic consulting to a small number of carefully selected companies that are aligned with his interests.
Carolyn Hassan
Knowle West Media Centre
Carolyn Hassan
Knowle West Media Centre
Carolyn is the founder and Director of Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) www.kwmc.org.uk and Bristol Living Lab. KWMC is an arts and media organisation that delivers programmes ranging from citizen led housing, citizen sensing, to young peoples’ arts and technology programmes. KWMC works closely with academic institutions including University of Bristol and collaborated with Helen Manchester, Reader in Digital Inequalities and Urban Futures as part of the Horizon 20:20 Lighthouse project Replicate https://replicate-project.eu/. She is currently an International Ambassador for Bristol.
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
Leader of Assistive Technologies
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
Leader of Assistive TechnologiesDr 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)
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Milica Trajković
Certified PMI Project Manager
Milica Trajković
Certified PMI Project ManagerMs. Milica Trajkovic is a certified PMI project manager, experienced in EU funded projects focused on Digital Agriculture and development of ICTs for AgriFood value chain. For the last five years she has been equally involved in numerous proposals preparation (from idea to design and proposal formulation) as well as projects’ implementation. Constant managing of multiple projects resulted in two main specializations – i) liaison between project requests and partners’ needs and Institute’s expertise and resources dedicated to implementation of project tasks; ii) efficient implementation of overall project strategy and assuring sub-projects and pilots are executing pre-defined tasks and activities within time, budget and quality constraints. At the same time, she deeply believes that people are the most valuable asset a company can have. Hence, Milica is very passionate about training and development activities tailored to Institute’s employees needs she is leading. In parallel, Milica is an Operations Manager in Precision Agriculture Living Lab (PA4ALL), where she works on broadening the relations with agricultural producers and maintaining cross-fertilization process between agricultural and ICT industry.
Grigoris Chatzikostas
Business Developer
Grigoris Chatzikostas
Business DeveloperMr. Grigoris Chatzikostas is a Business Developer in the field of advanced ICT technologies for the agrifood sector. As Head of the Business Development Department of BioSense, he is building the relationships of the Institute with industry and academia across Europe. His past experience in business consulting and IT start-ups has played a key role in developing the aggressive entrepreneurial mentality of BioSense as a results-driven Center of Excellence. As an expert in European projects, Grigoris is managing multi-national and cross-sectoral consortia, writing proposals for EU funding and coordinating large-scale projects that promote tech-enabled entrepreneurship in the agrifood sector. In the past 15 years he has managed projects exceeding the total value of 95 M EUR. As an engaging public speaker and trainer, he makes complex subjects related to EU funding and technologies accessible and easy to understand. He also offers mentoring and strategic consulting to a small number of carefully selected companies that are aligned with his interests.
Julia Nevmerzhitskaya
Senior Lecturer
Julia Nevmerzhitskaya
Senior LecturerJulia Nevmerzhitskaya is a Senior Lecturer and a Project Manager (Circ4Life) at Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland. In this position she is responsible for turning ideas into successful research projects, and leading EU-funded projects to successful completion. She has over 14 years teaching experience on Bachelor and Master levels, teaching courses related to service management and marketing. Julia is pursuing her Doctoral Studies at Vaasa University
Aletta Purola
Project Specialist
Aletta Purola
Project SpecialistAletta Purola is a Project Specialist at Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland. In this position, she is responsible for engaging the end-users and other key stakeholders into the development and innovation processes. Aletta specializes in connecting dots, materializing and visualizing ideas and digging out the essential value of services. She has experience in teaching project courses related to Service Design and Customer experience.
Harri Haapaniemi
Senior Manager (RDI)
Harri Haapaniemi
Senior Manager (RDI)Harri Haapaniemi is a Senior Manager (RDI) at Laurea University of Applied Sciences. He has worked in research and development and communication at Laurea since 2004. He has actively been involved in several European projects. Current projects: A circular economy approach for lifecycles of products and services, 2018-2021 (H2020), Product Validation in Healthcare, 2017-2020 (Interreg Baltic Sea region), Boosting innovative Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Regions for young entrepreneurs (Projet Manager, 2017-2021, 20182020 (Interreg Europe), 6-0! Promoting health through recreational football, 2018-2020 (Erasmus+ Sport). Haapaniemi is experienced in co-creation, stakeholder engagement, dissemination and project management.
Juan Antonio Bertolin
Managing Director
Juan Antonio Bertolin
Managing DirectorJuan Antonio Bertolin is currently Managing Director of espaitec (Scientific, Technological and Business Park of the UJI) through the General Foundation of the Universitat Jaume I and additionally Executive Director of XcelQiu Digital Consulting firm. His main role is providing the appropriate mechanisms to connect companies settled in the Science and Technology Park (start-ups, spin-off, tractors) to the Global Innovation EcoSystem, providing strategies of technology scouting, open innovation, hybridization management, project management protocols and strategy management. Juan Antonio is working on the UNALAB project in which he is focusing mainly on the co-creation and Urban Living Lab activities.
Abdolrasoul Habibipour
PhD student
Abdolrasoul Habibipour
PhD studentRasoul is a PhD student at Luleå Tekniska Universitet (host organisation of Botnia Living Lab) where he is focusing on user engagement in Living Lab research, with a particular emphasis on users' motivations and needs. He is working on multiple projects as a Living Lab expert, end user support specialist, user engagement expert and test admin. His role in the UNALAB project focuses mainly on developing the Urban Living Lab framework and co-creation tools.
Katinka Schaaf
Service Designer
Katinka Schaaf
Service DesignerKatinka Schaaf is a Service Designer in the Urban Technology team at Connected Places Catapult (previous Future Cities) London. Her expertise centres around human centred design with an emphasis on citizen engagement and city experimentation. She is eager to apply a hands-on approach to innovation projects and explore new solutions to complex city challenges. Her main focus in the past year has been the Horizon 2020 OrganiCity project. For this project, she developed and delivered the Experimentation as a Service framework in collaboration with 15 other partners. In June 2018 Katinka joined the iSCAPE project where she is responsible for overseeing the management of six Living Labs and training project partners in citizen engagement methods as well as other Living Lab activities. Since September 2019 Katinka is working on a regulatory sandbox project called Alternative Camden (alt.cmd) together with Camden Council and the greater London Authority and other partners they are setting up a testbed for experimentation which fosters collaboration and build solutions to shared challenges. Katinka is a committee member of the UK Service Design Network, the aim is to educate the industry and increase awareness of Service Design through workshops, events and conferences.
Santa Stibe
Project Management Professional
Santa Stibe
Project Management ProfessionalSanta is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with strong international credentials and experience in strategic relationship building and partnership strengthening in cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary environments. Santa has worked across different industries and has managed a number of international, academia-led projects enhancing public- private- people partnerships in such domains as air pollution, nature-based solutions, e-tourism, mobile healthcare, wellbeing, and social innovation. Having also been deeply involved in implementing these projects, Santa has developed a passion for innovation and collaboration at a large and often very complex scale. Santa is currently managing the iSCAPE consortium and project activities.
Spela Zalokar
International Project Manager
Spela Zalokar
International Project ManagerSpela Zalokar, is a Communications Officer and International Project Manager at ENoLL. As a project manager, she is working on the Urban Nature Labs (UNALAB) project in which she is focusing on the co-creation activities and the uptake of Urban Living Labs in several European cities. The game which will be played at the OpenLivingLab Days is a combination of several different areas of work within the project. Using the serious games approach, concepts dealt with in UNALAB (such as Urban Living Labs, co-creation tools and Nature-Based Solutions) are combined in an interesting and playful way and thus accessible to all types of audience.
Anna Ståhlbröst
Chair Professor
Anna Ståhlbröst
Chair ProfessorAnna Ståhlbröst is the Chair Professor in Information Systems at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. Her research interests focus on the possibilities and challenges with the ongoing digital transformation for people, organizations, and society. In particular, she is interested in the citizen perspective when digital service innovations are developed within the context of urban living labs for smart cities and regions. Her research is related to different application areas such as smart cities and regions, crowdsourcing, everyday use, and online privacy. Her research has been published in several international journals, conference proceedings, and books.
Clara Mafe
Junior Project Manager
Clara Mafe
Junior Project ManagerClara is the Junior Project Manager at ENoLL. She supports project management and development activities for the ENoLL Living Lab community in the area of cities. As part of the UNaLab team, Clara is currently putting together our Urban Living Lab Toolkit and contributing in the development of the ULL Playground Game. Her work focuses on finding the best ways to engage citizens in the planning and development of more resilient and liveable places.
Leen Broeckx
Panel Manager
Leen Broeckx
Panel ManagerLeen Broeckx holds a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences from Brussels University. She has an additional Master Degree in Cultural Studies from Leuven University Belgium. Together with her colleague panelmanager she facilitates workshops and real life tests.
Sascha Vermeylen
Panel Manager
Sascha Vermeylen
Panel ManagerSascha holds a Master’s degree in Social and Economic Sciences and an additional Teachers Degree both from the University of Antwerp. She joined the LiCalab team in 2018 as panelmanager. Together with her colleague panelmanager she’s responsible for a panel of 1.000 members and more than 400 caregivers and care organisations.
Alessandro Deserti
Full Professor
Alessandro Deserti
Full ProfessorAlessandro Deserti is Full Professor of design at Politecnico di Milano, where he has been chair of the Product Design program (BSc and MSc). He teaches at the School of Design. His research is focused on design-enabled innovation processes, methods and tools, with particular reference to their introduction in new fields and to the ways in which their adoption can be combined with systemic and organisational change | Mail: alessandro.deserti@polimi.it
Francesca Rizzo
Associate Professor
Francesca Rizzo
Associate ProfessorFrancesca Rizzo is Associate Professor in Interaction Design and user studies at the Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design. She has been visiting professor at Aalto University’s School of Design, and Shangai Tongji University Center for Design and Innovation. Currently, she is responsible of the EU Social Innovation Community project, SIC. | Mail: francesca.rizzo@polimi.it
Stefano Crabu
Assistant Professor
Stefano Crabu
Assistant ProfessorStefano Crabu is an assistant professor in sociology at the Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches Theory and Culture of Innovation. His research work explores several facets of social and technological innovation, and draws upon an interdisciplinary training in sociology, and science and technology studies. | Mail: stefano.crabu@polimi.it
Carla Sedini
Adjunct Professor
Carla Sedini
Adjunct ProfessorCarla Sedini, PhD in Sociology. She is adjunct Professor at the School of Design of Politecnico di Milano and she works as Research Fellow at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano since 2012. She has been collaborating in several projects and research on different topics (Creative and Cultural Industries, Urban Regeneration, Social Innovation) both in Italian and foreign universities, research centres and for private clients. | Mail: carla.sedini@polimi.it
Jesse Marsh
Jesse Marsh
Jesse Marsh is an American who moved to Milan in the mid-‘70s to work as an industrial designer, apprenticing in the offices of Marco Zanuso. In fifteen years of professional activity, he confronted a wide range of technologies, processes and product sector, from chairs to artificial lungs. In the late ‘80s he was drawn to information technologies, participating in R&D projects financed by the European Union . First in Milan and since 1995 in Palermo, he first worked with learning technologies, telework and e-commerce and then in projects and policy work on the information society and sustainable development, cultural diversity, democratic participation, social innovation, and business model innovation. He also works with local and regional authorities in Territorial Cooperation projects and programming initiatives, linking his research on innovation with cultural heritage, local development, innovation policy, and Smart Specialisation.
Francesca Spagnoli
Senior Project Manager
Francesca Spagnoli
Senior Project ManagerFrancesca is a Senior Project Manager, a Researcher and a Professor. She is passionate about understanding the impacts of ICT on citizens and the human factor behind technologies, as well as enthusiast about open innovation, end user engagement methodologies and smart cities. She holds a Master Degree in Media and Communications and a PhD in Economics (on Innovation Technology) from the University of Rome La Sapienza (2015), Italy. Francesca has worked as Senior PM and Coordinator of several international projects for governments, research centers and SMEs in different fields). In 2013, Francesca has been appointed as Young Researcher Ambassador from the European Commission. She has been the coordinator of the European Researchers’ Night from 2014 to 2017, organising more than 150 events throughout Italy. In ENoLL she is acting as an external experts on EU funded projects, providing her expertise on end-user engagement, citizen-centred methodologies for co-creation and researching methodologies to enact open innovation in cities.
Francesco Molinari
Project Manager
Francesco Molinari
Project ManagerFrancesco holds a MSc and a MA in public management (Siena University, 2007 & 2005) and a BSc in social and economic disciplines (Milan “L. Bocconi” University, 1990). Currently, he is a research fellow on Frugal Government at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, and visiting professor on Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Ulster Business School in Belfast, UK. Invited lecturer at the Master courses of the Universities of Rome (Tor Vergata), Milan (Cattolica), and Siena, he has authored more than 50 publications in the past decade on topics related to Living Labs, eParticipation, eGovernment, eLearning, innovation policy, pre-commercial procurement, and smart cities / regions. As a freelance consultant and project manager he has worked for about 15 years with several public and private organizations, and engaged in more than 20 ICT-related R&D and innovation projects at EU, national and regional level – often as coordinator.
Damien Gauthier
Lean Innovation Specialist
Damien Gauthier
Lean Innovation SpecialistUser Experience designer and Lean Innovation specialist, Damien started his career with PhD in mathematics and a brief detour through acting and directing, which led him to become curator of TEDxLausanne. Since 2016, he brings together his skills in science methodology, theater acting, UX and Lean Startup to help people solve problems together in a creative way.
Isis Gouédard
Mum-preneur and Senior IT Project manager
Isis Gouédard
Mum-preneur and Senior IT Project manager
A Genevoise mum-preneur and Senior IT Project manager, she holds a Mathematics Master and Entrepreneurship EMBA from University of Geneva. Passionate about human interactions and motivations, she helps client embrace change and derive actions plans fostering ideas through experience and games, unleashing the power of collective intelligence.
Janneke Vervloed
Living Labs Coordinator
Janneke Vervloed
Living Labs Coordinator- Janneke Vervloed, coordinator Living Labs at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, coordinator Medical Delta (collaboration Delft University of Technology, Leiden University and Erasmus University on technological health innovations) Living Lab Care Robotics and project lead eHealth Living Lab Cluster The Hague. Janneke is an experienced workshop and stakeholder session leader.
Natalia Romero de Herrera
Assistant Professor
Natalia Romero de Herrera
Assistant ProfessorNatalia Romero de Herrera, Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology in the Design Contextualization and Communication section, where her main research focus is on the design and development of a methodology and a platform for the evaluation of daily life experiences of innovative technologies. PI eHealth Living Lab Cluster The Hague
Erwin de Vlugt
Professor Technology for Health
Erwin de Vlugt
Professor Technology for HealthErwin de Vlugt, Professor Technology for Health at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, owner Medical Delta Living Lab Care Robotics and entrepreneur in robotics. PI eHealth Living Lab Cluster The Hague
Dimitri Schuurman
Team Lead of Business
Dimitri Schuurman
Team Lead of BusinessDimitri Schuurman is the Team Lead of the Business model and User Research Team at imec.livinglabs. He holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences from Ghent University in Belgium. Together with his imec colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific living lab offering targeted at entrepreneurs in which he has managed over 100 innovation projects. He is also active in the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and 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.
Olha Bondarenko
Strategic Advisor
Olha Bondarenko
Strategic AdvisorOlha Bondarenko works as a strategic advisor on innovation within the Strategy department. She has a broad range of experiences in academia, business and public services domain and enjoys to bring the different worlds together through co-creation of innovative policies based on practice.
Wim De Kinderen
Senior Professional in EU Affairs
Wim De Kinderen
Senior Professional in EU AffairsWim De Kinderen is representing the City of Eindhoven within the Brussels based ‘Brainport Eindhoven EU Office’. As such he is a senior professional in EU affairs, and has ample experiences in building alliances and managing European networks.
Sakariina Heikkanen
RDI Senior Expert
Sakariina Heikkanen
RDI Senior ExpertMs. Sakariina Heikkanen is a Senior Lecturer and Research, development & Innovation (RDI) Senior Expert in Haaga-Helia. The past 11 years she has worked for various RDI projects in close collaboration with company partners representing a wide spectrum of sectors. Ms. Heikkanen coordinates the Finnish Network of Living Labs and is a member of the European Network of Living Labs. Haaga-Helia has a great experience in managing both domestic and international Living Lab related RDI projects in a professional manner.
Minna-Maari Harmaala
Principal Lecturer
Minna-Maari Harmaala
Principal LecturerPh.D. Minna-Maari Harmaala works as principal lecturer of Corporate Responsibility at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences. She has over ten years of practical industry experience from consulting in sustainability management, especially in the electronics sector. She has worked with a number of multinational clients prior to joining Haaga-Helia and is currently active in public-private partnerships at the University. She is a seasoned facilitator and promoter of experiential learning. She has robust international experience both from living and working abroad. Her areas of interest and expertise are corporate responsibility, sustainability marketing and communication, strategic CSR and environmental management.
Kati Takaluoma
RDI Specialist
Kati Takaluoma
RDI SpecialistDr Kati Takaluoma works as a Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) specialist in Haaga-Helia. She has a strong research background with a PhD focused in Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Kati has a demonstrated history of working in international projects having been involved in the preparation, execution and reporting of several projects funded e.g. by EU framework programmes (from FP6 to Horizon 2020). Nationally she has managed two PhDs to Business Life projects partly funded by EU Structural Funds. These projects trained PhDs in different business skills and helped them in the career transition from academic to non-academic sector.
Ömer Onur
Managing Director
Ömer Onur
Managing DirectorÖmer is currently the MD of Başakşehir Living Lab AND has been running Basaksehir Innovation &Technology Center (Basaksehir Living-Lab) focused in development of innovative producsts and services as well as supporting enterprenuers and startups since 2012. He is an expert in Project Management and Organizational Development. Ömer has more than 30 years of corporate experience by working most of his years in Ford Motor Company, Ericsson and Turkcell Communications at various management roles in the areas of Organizational Development, Quality, IT, Strategy and Project Management. Omer has a B.Sc in Production/Industrial Engineering from Aston University, UK and an MBA degree from Graduate School of Management, Melbourne University.
Katariina Malmberg
Project Manager
Katariina Malmberg
Project ManagerKatariina Malmberg (M.Sc. Econ., M.Mus.) has completed her Master’s degree in Economics and Business administration at the department of Management in Helsinki School of Economics (nowadays Aalto University). She started working at ENoLL in September 2016 as a project manager, and from August 2017 onward she has had the responsibility of project management tasks and living lab support as an in-house consultant at ENoLL in EU-funded U4IoT coordination and support action focusing on user-engagement. Before joining ENoLL, Katariina worked at the Center of Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR) in Aalto University between 2008-2016, latest as a project manager. Her responsibilities in national and EU research and innovation projects included communications, project administration and research, especially in the area of user-driven innovation. When not working on project management, Katariina is devoting her time to professional music activities as a baroque oboist.
Andoni Lombide Carreton
IT architect
Andoni Lombide Carreton
IT architectAndoni is an IT architect in IMEC’s prototyping team. He has done architecture and software engineering work for both industrial companies and research projects, with a focus on distributed real-time and streaming systems, such as IoT and reactive architectures. Before making the switch to industry, he worked as researcher and as a lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and obtained a PhD in Computer Science on programming language support for distributed event-driven computing in 2011.
Lynn Coorevits
Innovation Manager
Lynn Coorevits
Innovation ManagerLynn Coorevits is an Innovation Manager at IMEC.livinglabs, where she is responsible for tools and methodologies that improve testing in living labs. She is also affiliated to the IMEC-mict-ugent department Ghent University in Belgium as a Senior User Researcher. She holds master degrees in Psychology and Marketing Analysis from Ghent University and has over 10 years of experience in innovation research and consultancy ranging from the financial to the social industry. She was also involved in projects that include the Internet of Things such as the City of Things initiative in Antwerp. Her main interests are in the domain of user experience research and more specifically the optimization of tools and techniques for contextual inquiry via sensors.
Olivier Rits
Program Manager
Olivier Rits
Program ManagerOlivier Rits graduated as Engineer Applied Physics at Ghent University and started a research project on optical interconnects inside digital systems. After that he joined Alcatel-Lucent as business developer, focusing on defining the go2market strategy and developing the business first for networking technology broadly and later with focus on innovative applications in IoT. In 2012 he was part of the winning Alcatel-Lucent innovation bootcamp team with an innovative concept (and patent) on cloud services.. In 2013 Olivier joined iMinds (now imec) where a lead the business model practice in the imec.livinglabs team. As program manager imec.living labs, he is responsible for the definition and implementation of the service offering and go2market strategy.
Leon Sterling
Swinburne University of Technology
Leon Sterling
Swinburne University of TechnologyProfessor Leon Sterling has had an extensive academic career. Following a PhD from the Australian National University, he worked for 15 years at universities in the UK, Israel and the United States. He served as Head of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Melbourne for 6 years, then took up industry sponsored professorship of Software Innovation and Engineering. In 2010, he moved to Swinburne University of Technology as Dean of the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies for 4 years and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Digital Frontiers) for two years. His current research is in incorporating emotions in technology development.
Sonja Pedell
Swinburne University of Technology / Future Self and Design Living Lab
Sonja Pedell
Swinburne University of Technology / Future Self and Design Living LabAssociate Professor Sonja Pedell is Director of Swinburne University’s Future Self and Design Living Lab. The FSD Living Lab has core development capabilities in the area of innovative socio-technical systems and design solutions for health and wellbeing with a focus on the ageing population and dementia. Prior to taking up this role at Swinburne, Dr Pedell completed a Masters of Psychology from the Technical University of Berlin and was employed as an Interaction Designer, Usability Consultant and Product Manager in industry for several years.
Panagiotis Koutoudis
Lead Project Manager
Panagiotis Koutoudis
Lead Project ManagerMr. Panagiotis Koutoudis holds a MSc in Applied Economics & a graduate degree in Economic Science from the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is the lead project manager of iED with a vast experience in the management & implementation of national and European projects. His portofolio consists of researches, studies & training materials on the topics of entrepreneurship, business development, etc.
Natália Susana Silva
Project Manager
Natália Susana Silva
Project ManagerMs. Natália Susana Silva works at the Regional Fund for Science and Technology of the Azores Regional Government (FRCT), has a degree in Portuguese and English and Post Graduations in Business Management and Digital Marketing. She manages projects and provides information to other governmental departments and to the Scientific and Technological System of the Azores about funding opportunities under Horizon 2020 or other programmes. Currently she manages, with the help of different teams, the following projects: MACARONIGHT, LIVERUR, FIMAC, SCREEN and EXPAND II for JPI Urban, within different and challenging thematics.
Tunde Kallai
Managing Director
Tunde Kallai
Managing DirectorMrs Tunde Kallai (born in Hungary) is managing director of TR Associates Ltd, located in Malta, and project partner in LIVERUR H2020 project (2018-2021). Mrs Kallai is Senior Expert on research and open innovation with 18 years experiences in EU RTD and Innovation programs/tenders and technical assistance in Europe and MENA countries mainly. She was one of the founding member of ENoLL in 2005. She gave her assistance and concept development for the set-up of 17 Living Labs (urban/rural) in 7 countries (HU, CH, MT, SN, TN, KSA, TR) and 3 continents (Europe, Africa and Middle East) in the last 14 years. Her main interest is the circular transition from linear economy to circular economies in urban and rural context, the new business models, capitalisation strategies in the framework of user driven open innovation.
Lina Mosshammer
Mobility Researcher
Lina Mosshammer
Mobility ResearcherLina Mosshammer (AustriaTech) is part of the business unit of mobility innovation. Originally a spatial planner she sets a focus on transportation system planning and mobility research. The support of the Austrian Mobility Labs as well as the Mobility Transformation Lab is a key element within her work.
Marlene Wagner
Architect
Marlene Wagner
ArchitectMarlene Wagner (aspern.mobil LAB) is trained as an architect and has gained excessive experience working and researching in developing environments with focus on cross-cultural and transdisciplinary design-build practice. She is part of the aspern.mobil LAB and the research-group MDUR - Multidisciplinary Design and User Research at the Vienna Technical University focussing on experimental participatory methods, co-creation, collective knowledge production and the set-up of an sustainably active research community.
Michael Habiger
Michael Habiger
Michael Habiger (aspern.mobil LAB) is experienced in the conception, application and evaluation of user-centered methods. A strong focus lies on participatory approaches exploring user contexts, needs and requirements in order to develop design proposals and tailored technological solutions.
Julia Nermuth
Project Staff
Julia Nermuth
Project StaffJulia Nermuth (thinkport VIENNA) is project staff at the Institute for Production Economics and Logistics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna. She holds a bachelor in environment and bio-resources management and focused on regional development during her master studies.
Ursula Kopp
Landscape Architect
Ursula Kopp
Landscape ArchitectUrsula Kopp (MobiLab OÖ) was trained a landscape architect, and holds a general MBA and an MSc in conflict resolution. She worked as a project manager, evaluator, and as a facilitator in the context of sustainable development at the Vienna University of Business Administration for more than 10 years. Since 2016 she is member of the MobiLab OÖ Team at the University of Applied Science in Upper Austria, focussing on innovation processes and methods, such as design thinking.
Stephan Tischler
Alpine Transport Expert
Stephan Tischler
Alpine Transport ExpertStephan Tischler (Center of Mobility Change) is an expert in the area of alpine transport, spatial development and economic analysis of transport infrastructure projects. He was leading the transport planning department at ILF Consulting Engineers Austria for more than 10 years. In late summer 2018 he was assigned to the University of Innsbruck, Institute of Infrastructure in Austria as Senior Scientist and works in parallel as an independent consultant for urban and regional planning. He is elected representative of Innsbruck’s urban district Igls, Environmental Ombudsman of the Tyrolean regional authority and advisor to regional and local communities.
Doris Wiederwald
Mobility Innovation Senior Expert
Doris Wiederwald
Mobility Innovation Senior ExpertDoris Wiederwald (AustriaTech) holds a master in environmental system sciences and is senior expert for mobility innovation and mobility policy with AustriaTech. With nearly two decades of experience in regional and spatial development as well as in the field of innovative and sustainable mobility she now supports the five Austrian Urban Mobility Labs as well as the Mobility Transformation Lab in their implementation, in knowledge transfer and in their strategic embedding in national and international networks.
Geraldine Barry
Adviser to the Deputy Director General, DG Joint Research Centre - European Commission
Geraldine Barry
Adviser to the Deputy Director General, DG Joint Research Centre - European CommissionGeraldine Barry is Adviser to the Deputy Director General, DG Joint Research Centre - European Commission. She has long-standing experience in the promotion, management and exploitation of research. As Head of Communication at the European Commission's science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre, she was responsible for all aspects of communication with a special emphasis on corporate image and branding, managing a communications team spread across the JRC's six sites. Prior to this, Geraldine was Head of Unit for Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at the JRC, where responsibilities included management of the European Communities; intellectual property portfolio. Her current role as adviser to the Deputy Director General focuses on organisational development issues, engagement and outreach and policy communication.
Stefano Tarantola
Scientific Officer
Stefano Tarantola
Scientific OfficerStefano Tarantola is a Scientific Officer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He graduated in Nuclear Engineering in 1992 and received his PhD in Science and Technologies for Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan in 1996. He works at the Directorate for Energy, Transport and Climate conducting methodological work and pre-normative research in the field interoperability of smart electricity grids and electric vehicles. He currently runs the project for developing a living lab at the JRC Ispra for testing digital energy solutions in the context of the Ispra site modernization program.
Federico Ferretti
IT Consultant
Federico Ferretti
IT ConsultantFederico Ferretti is IT consultant at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Federico has studied computer engineering at the Politecnico di Milano and later deepened his knowledge of ICT with a Master in cognitive science at the University of Milan, aiming to explore those aspects of artificial intelligence that may relate with the study of the mind. Currently, he is finalizing a Ph.D. in social sciences at the University of Maastricht, with a thesis on the emergence of “DIY science” and other collaborative approaches to science, focusing on the articulation of imaginaries, expectations and discourses among different stakeholders. He helped in the co-design and implementation of the JRC’s Makerspace, a collaborative space for experimenting with citizen engagement in science and technology issues.
Elke van der Heijden
Researcher
Elke van der Heijden
ResearcherElke van der Heijden is a researcher and developer in the interdisciplinary research program Urban Management at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science (AUAS). She combines her current work as a project leader and researcher for the ERDF / ESF project House of Skills, with a PhD project on collaborative learning processes in long-term innovation processes. In recent years at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, she was one of the driving forces behind the development of the Fieldlab Methodology. Field labs are area-oriented and locally anchored learning and experimenting environments for the approach of metropolitan tasks.
Anna de Zeeuw
Senior Researcher
Anna de Zeeuw
Senior ResearcherAnna de Zeeuw (Phd public administration), is a senior researcher and program manager at the AUAS, lectorate Management of Cultural Change and research group Urban Management. She acts as leader of various fieldlabs, with the application of action research. The theme of this is cooperation between formal and informal organizations in a metropolitan setting. She has a PhD in quality of public services. She also has training and extensive practical experience as a business strategy consultant.
Julie Ferguson
Senior Researcher
Julie Ferguson
Senior ResearcherJulie Ferguson (PhD, business administration) is a senior researcher in the interdisciplinary research program Urban Management at the AUAS. Julie’s main research interest is knowledge-intensive organizing and social innovation, from a social network perspective. She is presently project leader for an interdisciplinary project aimed at collaborative governance among diverse stakeholders of Amsterdam municipality as an ‘urban commons’, and is researcher on the European-funded ‘House of Skills’ project. She was previously an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has published extensively in international scholarly journals and acquired numerous research grants in the domain of organization sciences and public administration.
Masataka Mori
Research Analyst
Masataka Mori
Research AnalystHe is a research analyst for accumulating information and creation of database to accelerate the social innovation in Japan. Managing a creative platform construction project based on social issues, he has been engaging himself to work on research, analysis and concept design for innovation platform construction using interviews, field work and other ethnographic research methods
Kyosuke Sakakura
Associate Professor
Kyosuke Sakakura
Associate ProfessorBorn in 1972. As a full-time lecturer and associate professor at Tokyo City University and Keio University, he is also a representative of Mita's house which performs place making in the area, and is involved in community development as a researcher and practitioner.
Takashi Yamada
Section Manager
Takashi Yamada
Section ManagerBorn in Shiojiri City in 1975. Graduated from Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University. Currently, he works as a section manager in the Shiojiri City Office Planning Department and the Regional Creation Promotion Division City Promotion Section. As a staff member of Shiojiri City Office, he also undertakes the role of representative of nanoda, he research and practice-base project of utilising the unoccupied house.
Joelle Mastelic
Manager
Joelle Mastelic
ManagerProf Dr Joelle Mastelic is the Manager of the Energy Living Lab, professor and research in the Energy Institute of the University of Applied Science Western Switzerland. She holds a phd from University of Lausanne on the role of Living Labs in the energy field. She is also an organiser and moderator of different international conferences.
Giorgio Maric
Director Urban Statistics Office, City of Lugano, Switzerland
Giorgio Maric
Director Urban Statistics Office, City of Lugano, SwitzerlandDr. Giorgio Maric works at the City of Lugano, Switzerland as the Director of the Urban Statistics Office. He has been involved in multiple european projects on data innovation, urban and territorial development and was Lugano's delegate to Urbact. With his in-depth experience in management of innovation, science and technology projects and programs, design, establishment and development of strategic alliances, multi-institutional and private-public partnerships at regional and cross-border scale, in his role as City of Lugano ENoLL Delegate and Head of Lugano Living Lab, Giorgio will contribute in particular to the issues related to the acceleration of the adoption and penetration of the data innovation, in general, and artificial intelligence based data analysis and optimization methods, in particular, in order to create the real value for the quality of urban services, for the quality of life of citizens and for the competitiveness of mid-sized cities for international companies and young talents.
Meri Vainio
Project Manager
Meri Vainio
Project ManagerMeri is pedagogically oriented engineer and the main facilitator of this workshop. Her background is in human-centered product design and development. She is skilled facilitator in lean service creation and has several years of experience from building and developing cross-cultural co-creation platforms in Finland, China and South Korea.
Maiju Haltia-Nurmi
Project Coordinator
Maiju Haltia-Nurmi
Project CoordinatorMaiju is service design oriented social scientist. She is currently responsible for developing the KYKY concept, including the operating model and digital marketplace, in Espoo and Finland. Maiju has strong expertise in project management and coaching. Previous work experience includes development projects in public sector and non-profit organizations. She is passionate about service design, social action, co-creation and education. https://www.linkedin.com/in/maijuhaltianurmi/
Katja Hagman
Business coach
Katja Hagman
Business coachKatja was the project manager when the original KYKY concept was co-created and designed. She has over 15 years experience in developing people, talent, organizations, leadership and learning in diverse international enterprises, public sector and multicultural environments. Katja has proven effective and efficient results in leading large and complex projects with the different stakeholders in large ecosystems. She is extensively experienced in improving business success by developing and implementing strategical people development processes and in promoting digitalization as a profound transformation.
Harri Luttinen
Chief Digital Officer
Harri Luttinen
Chief Digital OfficerHarri is a specialist on digital services, educational technology and learning environments. He has over 10 years experience in creating and developing new models of using technology in education and organizational skills. Harri has been responsible of running several national public sector projects
Minna Kukkonen
Planner, Education and Cultural Services
Minna Kukkonen
Planner, Education and Cultural ServicesMinna is a specialist on Finnish Education and development of learning culture, innovation and technology education, learning environments and ecosystems. She is an expert on project management and has been running several national and international development projects. She is a responsible person for the Accelerated Co-creation for Schools and Companies, KYKY, Innokas FabLearn Lab -makerspace and developing competences on 21st century skills and moreover, supporting curriculum reform in the city level.
Yvonne Eriksson
Professor
Yvonne Eriksson
ProfessorYvonne Eriksson (PhD) is Professor in Information Design, leader of MDH Living Lab at Innovation and Product Realization (IPR) and Vice Dean of the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering at Mälardalen Univeristy. The main focus of her research is visual communication and its relation to the perceptual/cognitive processes that are involved in interpretation of visuals and building of milieus. She has special interest in methodology and development of methods for design and co-creation.
Ulrika Florin
Senior Lecturer
Ulrika Florin
Senior LecturerUlrika Florin (PhD, MFA) is Senior Lecturer in Information Design and Coordinator of the Bachelor Program Spatial Design-Information Design, Mälardalen University. Florin’s research focuses on sketches, models and full-scale representations (analogue and digital) that support interaction and communication. Florin combines concepts from visual communication with knowledge theories from practice-based research.
Andrea Hvistendahl
Visual Artist
Andrea Hvistendahl
Visual ArtistAndrea Hvistendahl (MFA, Royal College of Art, Stockholm) is a visual artist with an international background. She is a lecturer in Information Design, Mälardalen University, Spatial Design-Information Design. Hvistendahl focuses on environmental, social and ethical issues and how to translate and communicate ideas to different groups. Her projects feature objects, installations, and images often in cooperation with other social actors.
Rosa Arias
CEO
Rosa Arias
CEOMs. Rosa Arias is the D-NOSES Coordinator, creator of the OdourCollect App and CEO & Founder of Science for Change. After more than 12 years of expertise as an odour expert, she has developed an innovative methodology to co-create alternative solutions to odour pollution through citizen science and participatory strategies.
Nora Salas Seoane
Social Sciences Researcher
Nora Salas Seoane
Social Sciences ResearcherMs. Nora Salas Seoane is the Social Sciences Researcher of the D-NOSES project and COO and Social Researcher in Science for Change. Her background as a Psychologist and Anthropologist helps her to undergo community engagement and participatory and co-creation strategies within D-NOSES. She also holds expertise in mainstreaming gender
Louise Francis
Co-founder
Louise Francis
Co-founderMs. Louise Francis is the Co-founder of Mapping for Change, a social enterprise spin-out from University College London. Louise has over 15 years of experience developing and leading projects centred on participatory mapping; community engagement and citizen science programmes on topics spanning local pollution monitoring to planning, from exploring issues of accessibility to looking at citizenship and social housing issues, all focusing on inclusivity in their development and design. Louise’s research interest is in the role of participatory mapping, VGI and citizen science has in generating positive environmental and social change
María Alonso
Engagement Activities
María Alonso
Engagement ActivitiesMs. María Alonso has an academic background in environmental science and rural development, María has been instrumental in a number of participatory sustainable development and livelihood improvement programmes. She has more than ten years experience working for NGOs and Social Enterprises across Europe in projects ranging from sustainable mobility to short food supply chains. Maria leads the engagement activities on behalf of Mapping for Change within the D-NOSES project.
Louise Hopper
Assistant Professor in Psychology
Louise Hopper
Assistant Professor in PsychologyDr Louise Hopper, Assistant Professor in Psychology at Dublin City University (DCU). Louise graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1993 and worked in various information technology roles in Ireland and in the US from 1988 to 2001. Since completing her Ph.D. in Psychology in TCD in 2013, Louise has worked as a Lecturer and post-doctoral researcher in DCU. Louise has extensive experience working with people with dementia and their families and her recent projects include assistive technology and timely access to formal community-based care to support those living with dementia and the design of a National Dementia Registry for Ireland. Louise was awarded the DCU Presidents Research Award for 2017. She is also the co-founder and co-chair of the Alzheimer Café Leixlip.
Carolyn Hassan
Knowle West Media Centre
Carolyn Hassan
Knowle West Media Centre Carolyn is the founder and Director of Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) www.kwmc.org.uk and Bristol Living Lab. KWMC is an arts and media organisation that delivers programmes ranging from citizen led housing, citizen sensing, to young peoples’ arts and technology programmes. KWMC works closely with academic institutions including University of Bristol and collaborated with Helen Manchester, Reader in Digital Inequalities and Urban Futures as part of the Horizon 20:20 Lighthouse project Replicate https://replicate-project.eu/. She is currently an International Ambassador for Bristol.
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
Leader of Assistive Technologies
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
Leader of Assistive TechnologiesDr 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)
Rosa Almeida
R&D Projects Manager
Rosa Almeida
R&D Projects ManagerWith a background on Gerontology, on Management of projects, human resources and social facilities and a post degree in Third Generation Therapies I am coordinating research and innovation projects for ageing well and independent living. As R&D Projects Manager in IDES (SME of INTRAS Foundation), challenges are the word of the day, and the creativity and teamwork an exigency that pleases me. Collaborating in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of national and european projects I have the opportunity to work and transfer best practices from and with european referents. As a supporter of open innovation methodologies (working with quadruple helix of innovation ecosystems at regional, national & EU levels) I have been involved in many actions.
Despoina Mantziari
Research Associate
Despoina Mantziari
Research AssociateDespoina Mantziari holds a University Degree in Media and Mass Communication and a MS in Journalism and New Media with specific expertise on news content verification and Fake News, both of them from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She works as a Research Associate on Research Programmes at AUTH Medical Physics Lab. She has former experience as journalist, as well as in media monitoring and public relations. She has been member of several university research groups, including the Media Informatics Lab and the Peace Journalism Lab, while she is also member of the communication and data journalism team of Open Knowledge Greece and the scientific advisory group of the Journalists' Union of Macedonia and Thrace Daily Newspapers (ESIEMTH).
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
Christiana Nicolaou
Psychologist
Christiana Nicolaou
PsychologistChristiana Nicolaou graduated from University of Cyprus with a bachelor's degree in Psychology f in 2012. Following the completion of her postgraduate studies in Special Education in 2014 she worked with a wide range of patients with mental and physical needs including children and adults. Christiana currently works as a Psychologist at Archangelos Michael Elderly Nursing Home in Nicosia offering support services to older people and dementia patients.
Jonas Bylund
Research & Innovation Officer
Jonas Bylund
Research & Innovation OfficerJonas Bylund is part of the JPI Urban Europe Management Board since 2013. His main responsibility is science-policy communication and to develop urban research and innovation funding calls with affiliated funding agencies as well as strategic other initiatives. Since 2013 he is also employed at IQS, the Swedish Centre for Innovation and Quality in the Built Environment. He is trained in human geography and social anthropology, with a specific research focus on the knowledge practices in planning and environmental sciences. His PhD thesis Planning, Projects, Practice (2006) investigated a national investment programme concerning new environmental technologies in the case of Stockholm urban development and was an attempt to translate actor-network theory into planning studies. He is an experienced lecturer in urban and regional planning, with a particular focus on epistemology and ontology in the social sciences. He is also a consultant with Urbanalys.
Johannes Riegler
Stakeholder Involvement Officer
Johannes Riegler
Stakeholder Involvement OfficerJohannes Riegler started working with the JPI Urban Europe Management Board in 2012. As an assistant to the Chair of the Management Board, his work spans from strategic issues, stakeholder involvement process development and implementation to the preparing and facilitating JPI Urban Europe related events and activities. Furthermore, he is involved in the H2020 funded URBAN-EU-CHINA project where he ensures the exchange and communication between JPI Urban Europe and the project. Johannes holds a B.Sc. in Geography and Regional Science as well as a MA in the UNICA 4cities Urban Studies programme. He conducted his studies in Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen, Madrid, Budapest and Klagenfurt. Johannes is employed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG.
Chabela Matura Parraguez
Senior Development Advisor
Chabela Matura Parraguez
Senior Development AdvisorChabela Matura Parraguez is a Chilean innovation practitioner, living in the Netherlands. She is a learning experience designer and facilitator, and senior development advisor at LEF future center, the dedicated innovation environment of the Dutch Department of Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat). Chabela is the founder of Espacio.nl, and co-founder of Theoryulab.nl. She is trained as an integrative (psycho)therapist. Her mission: Making people and organizations future-proof by designing experiences that stimulate co-creation and innovation. Current projects include the continuing development of LEF future center (Dutch Department Ministry of Public Works & Water Management), co-initiator of Leaders of the Future platform, and co-initiator of the Global Lab for Societal Innovation. Her most recent publications is the Body of Practice Future Center LEF, accessible at http://publicaties.minienm.nl/documenten/body-of-practice-lef-future-center-tien-jaar-praktijkervaring-met-sociale-innovatie-en-faciliteren-binnen-de-unieke-context-van-lef-future-center-rijkswaterstaat
Hank Kune
Hank Kune
Hank Kune works with corporate, government and university organizations in projects about societal innovation and renewal, with a special emphasis on hands-on problem solving in complex social, societal and organizational situations. Hank lives in the Netherlands, where he is director of Educore BV, a Founding Partner of the Future Center Alliance, and an active member of the New Club of Paris and the Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group. He has worked extensively with public sector organizations in the Netherlands, as well as diverse innovation initiatives in Japan, Finland, Sweden and the European Union. In recent years, his work has focused on systemic and open innovation, developing innovation-enabling environments for societal innovation, supporting entrepreneurial mindset, and creating conditions for dialogue that leads to action. Hank is one of the pioneers of the Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation, and has been its principle moderator since 2010. He has written extensively on orchestrating innovation ecosystems, innovation-enabling methodologies and critical success factors for public sector innovation. His work on dedicated innovation spaces has been influential in establishing and running Future Centers in several countries. In 2015, he co-founded International Initiatives for Societal Innovation (I2SI), an open network-based resource platform to bring people, ideas and information together for practitioners working to create a smarter, more sustainable society.
Léopoldine Landié
Innovation Manager
Léopoldine Landié
Innovation ManagerLéopoldine Landié: Léopoldine is Innovation Manager in the research department of the Brussels Agency for the Support of Entrepreneurship. Her design thinikng mind is at the service of the research cycles she coordinates and supports. She works at Atrium Lab, Living Smart Retail City.
Solenne Romagni
Head of Research
Solenne Romagni
Head of ResearchSolenne heads the research department of the Brussels Agency for the Support of Entrepreneurship. Her ability to see far is aligned with the means she creates to achieve . Solenne also coordinates the Atrium Lab, Living Smart Retail City.
Thibaut Galban
Innovation Manager
Thibaut Galban
Innovation ManagerThibaut is Innovation Manager in the research department of the Brussels Agency for the Support of Entrepreneurship. His experience in territorial development is at the service of his projects and creativity. He works at Atrium Lab, Living Smart Retail City.
Estelle Huchet
Campaign Officer
Estelle Huchet
Campaign OfficerEstelle participates in several European projects dealing with digitalisation, well-being, health and standardisation in relation to ageing and older persons. In that frame, she works on the popularization of these issues towards older people and relevant European stakeholders. She is also committed to organising participatory processes to ensure that older people have their say in the process. As campaign officer, she coordinated the #AgeingEqual global campaign against ageism in late 2018 and actively contributes to AGE capacity-building and awareness-raising activities to tackle age stereotypes and discrimination against older persons.
Paul Chamberlain
Professor of Design
Paul Chamberlain
Professor of DesignPaul is Professor of Design, Co-Director of the Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute, Head of the Art and Design Research Centre, Director of Design Futures and Co-Director of interdisciplinary research group Lab4Living. His work explores the multi-sensory aspects of design and the role of artefacts that define pertinent societal questions as much as present solutions.
Jess Linington
Learning Manager
Jess Linington
Learning ManagerJess is Learning Manager at KWMC. She is delivering a new programme collaborating with communities and organisations across the city to share skills, tools and innovative ways of working together. Jess is focused on digital skills, citizen sensing, digital making and web projects. Her aim is to increase digital inclusion by improving access to, and engagement with, information, services and opportunities in the city
Martha King
Arts Programme Producer
Martha King
Arts Programme ProducerMartha King is Arts Programme Producer at KWMC. She has developed and delivered arts and research projects with citizens that explore; data ethics, commons based approaches, citizen-led co-design and participatory sensing. Supporting artists to create: performances, exhibitions, installations, talks, workshops and new commissions in a variety of contexts. She is co-author on HCI published paper 'A City in Common: A Framework to Foster Technology Innovation from the Bottom up' and has given public presentations around citizen innovation at a range of conferences across the UK and in Canada, including: The ENoLL OpenLivingLab Days conference in Montreal 2016 and at NESTA, London.
Penny Evans
Assistant Director
Penny Evans
Assistant DirectorAssistant Director, Knowle West Media Centre, Penny Evans works alongside the Director developing programmes that respond to future need, promoting participation, involvement and inclusion in the delivery of the project. One of her key areas of responsibility is strategic planning and development for: The Factory. She currently sits on the Engaged University Steering group at University of Bristol.
Maija Bergström
Community Manager
Maija Bergström
Community ManagerMaija Bergström (M.Soc.Sc.) works as Community Manager at Forum Virium Helsinki. Maija has developed new ways for more efficient and strategic use of underused and empty spaces. Her facilitation skills help filtering the stakeholder feedback as insights to the future services.
Mette Hiltunen
Living Lab Planner
Mette Hiltunen
Living Lab PlannerMette Hiltunen (M.Sc.Eng.) works as a Living Lab Planner at Forum Virium Helsinki and is responsible of Kalasatama Urban Lab space. With a background in design, product development and sustainability, she is focused on user-centered design processes to engage citizens in co-creating better and more sustainable everyday services.
Américo Mateus
Creative Director
Américo Mateus
Creative DirectorAmérico Mateus - Ph.D - has a Ph.D degree in Business Management and Marketing from Évora University and an undergraduate background in Industrial Design, completed in IADE. Currently is lecturer and invited teacher at IADE (since 1998), Évora University (since 2006), FH.Voralberg in Dornbirn Austria (since 2006). He has been working as Designer, Creative Director and Innovation Expert consultant. Since 2001, he is a researcher at UNIDCOM/IADE, where he developed and registered the IDEAS(R)EVOLUTION co-creation Design Thinking methodology. He is author and coauthor of more than 35 international scientific research papers published and presented around the theme of Design Thinking, Innovation and Creativity.
Ingrid Andersson
Ingrid Andersson
Ingrid Andersson - Ms Ingrid Andersson, EMBA, HEC Paris, with a major in Differentiation and Innovation through Services. Her research focuses on community engagement and digital society, business development and women entrepreneurship. Her major current engagements include citizen engagement in support of nature-based solutions in URBiNAT coupled with “learn-for-life”, a novel holistic behavioural-change methodology developed in collaboration with researchers at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and King’s College in London. Other current projects include “JUMP”, a behaviour-based health promotion program targeting primary schools, and a project on capacity-building in support of women-entrepreneurship, both with support of Qatar Foundation.
Knud Erik Hilding-Hamann
Business Consultant
Knud Erik Hilding-Hamann
Business ConsultantMSc in International marketing, Director, Center for Ideas & Innovation, Danish Technological Institute, Aarhus, Denmark. Knud Erik Hilding-Hamann has worked at the Institute since 1998 and prior to that, 10 years as a business consultant in England, UK. The center employs 20 consultants and conducts more than 200 innovation and technology development assignments per annum in partnership with Danish and foreign companies, public institutions and organisations. Knud Erik is also the project leader of the publicly funded innovation agent program in Denmark, which involves 35 innovation agents across nine advanced technology institutes with the task in 2016-2018 of conducting 475 innovation audits and 290 project initiations in small and medium sized enterprises per annum.
Nathalie Nunes
Researcher
Nathalie Nunes
ResearcherNathalie Nunes - Nathalie is French and Portuguese, researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), and currently member of the co-coordination team of URBiNAT (H2020 project). She graduated in international and European law (University of Paris Nanterre, France), and holds a research master's degree in international and European law of fundamental rights (University of Nantes, France). PhD candidate in sociology of law at the University of Coimbra, her thesis project is on the 2005 urban uprisings in the French suburbs. Nathalie gained international experience in Cape Verde and Brazil, and collaborated as a professional and a volunteer with organizations promoting and defending human rights, children's rights and the environment.
Lara Vigneron
Living Lab manager
Lara Vigneron
Living Lab managerLara Vigneron (WeLL): Living Lab manager of the Wallonia e-health Living lab active since 2015. After M.Sc. and PhD in engineering sciences, she worked for a few years on innovation processes in the medical field. Trained in creativity management, she coordinates the activities of the Living Lab community, European and regional collaborative projects, and the service offer.
Jonathan Pardo
Living Lab Expert
Jonathan Pardo
Living Lab ExpertLiving Lab Expert for Wallonia e-health Living Lab active since 2015. Consultant, trainer, coach and facilitator in the fields of marketing, strategies and participatory methodology. Trained in Design Thinking, Creativity and Process Communication Model.
Dorothée Goffin
Living Lab Manager
Dorothée Goffin
Living Lab ManagerLiving Lab manager of the Wallonia e-health Living lab active since 2015. After M.Sc. in Chemistry and Bio-industry and PhD in agronomical sciences and biological engineering from the University of Liège, she developed and co-created the Smart Gastronomy Lab which is a use, co-creation and prototyping multidisciplinary lab for food, technologic and gastronomic innovation.
Mikaël Mangyoku
Living Lab Manager
Mikaël Mangyoku
Living Lab ManagerLiving Lab manager of the Design Creative City Living Lab (Cité du design Living Lab). Trained in design management and innovation project piloting, he integrates the Cité du design as program manager for IDeALL (Integrating Design for All in Living Labs), an European program initiated by the European Design Innovation Initiative. Today he coordinates a Living Lab service offer (“les Labos”) using design and user-driven tools to invite the greater public and professionals in the innovation process.
Tiina Arpola
RDI-Advisor
Tiina Arpola
RDI-AdvisorTiina Arpola M.Sc. (Tech.) is a RDI-advisor at Savonia University of Applied Sciences in the field of Social, Health care and Cultural education. She is also experienced organizer for workshops and Game Jams. She has understanding about measured data, big data, open data, crowdsourcing, AI and applications using all this information and how gamification and creative sector makes data more valuable.
Merita Kaunisto
Project Coordinator
Merita Kaunisto
Project CoordinatorMerita Kaunisto M.Sc. (Nursing sc.) is working as a Project Coordinator in Kuopio University Hospital´s Living Lab services. She has been working as a midwife for 13 years in specialized medical care and now for the last two years in Living Lab services. The Kuopio University Hospital (KUH) Living Lab is operating in specialised medical care environments within the hospital. She is coordinating the testing and research of medical devices, as well as takes care of co-operation with organizations and businesses in the area and nationally.
Ilja Venäläinen
Designer of Sport Services
Ilja Venäläinen
Designer of Sport ServicesIlja Venäläinen M.Sc. (Econ. and B.A.) is a Designer of Sport Services at City of Kuopio. He is a former professional football player and executive director of Kuopio Region Academy of Sports. He has high levels of competence in sports life in general and ability to see possibilities in Living Lab ideology and measured data as part of communal wellbeing and decision-making.
Jyri Vilko
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Jyri Vilko
Post-Doctoral ResearcherJyri Vilko (D.Sc. Econ. & Bus. Adm.; M.Sc., Tech.) is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the School of Business at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland. He also holds a position of Adjunct Professor in Thammasat Business School, Thailand. His recent research interests are in the areas of supply chain risk management, health care supply chains, service networks and value creation. He has published on these topics in high-quality academic journals such as International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Logistics Management and Accident Analysis & Prevention. He has also been involved in business practice with regard to these topics through his research, and in speaker, facilitator and advisory roles.
Veronika Torma
PhD Researcher
Veronika Torma
PhD ResearcherVeronika has been a PhD researcher in the Global Sustainability Institute since 2014. Her research is on Urban Living Labs (ULLs). Veronika analyses stakeholder involvement in ULLs and the main processes needed to establish an urban living laboratory. The assumption is that greater involvement of stakeholders will lead to a more effective ULL implementation, however at what level stakeholder engagement works best remains the challenge of this research study.
Soenke Zehle
Lecturer
Soenke Zehle
LecturerSoenke Zehle, media theorist, writes, teaches, curates, with a focus on collaborative arts-and-technology research. Lecturer in Media Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Saar (HBKsaar), he is also managing co-director of K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik gGmbH, the academy's non-profit company for think tank, transfer, and training activities, as well as an affiliate researcher at the Ubiquitous Media Technologies Lab of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Between 2012 and 2018 he also worked as managing director of the academy's xm:lab - Experimental Media Lab. anticipate.network is currently coordinated and hosted by xm:lab.
David Crombie
Researcher
David Crombie
ResearcherDavid has been active in research and policy co-ordination and consultancy at a European level since FP4, with a focus on human-centred strategic design issues and crossover innovation trajectories. He joined HKU in 2007 as European Research Coordinator, in 2011 he authored a pan European study on the Entrepreneurial Dimension of the Cultural and Creative Industries for EACEA informing the policy discussions for the H2020 programme for supporting the creative industry sector. He is active in many European research, innovation and policy networks and initiatives.
Olivier Zephir
Senior Business Advisor
Olivier Zephir
Senior Business AdvisorOlivier Zephir is a Senior Business Advisor at the Technoport a technology business incubator in Luxembourg. At Technoport Olivier manages the Digital Experience Studio (DX-Studio) and supports entrepreneurs in developing innovative digital technologies. Olivier promotes innovative startups revamping digital content (music, video, games) creation, production and distribution value chains. On a day to day basis, Olivier assists startups in building proof of concepts with early adopters and other interested parties.
Andrea Rubini
Water Europe, Director of Operations
Andrea Rubini
Water Europe, Director of OperationsAndrea Rubini holds a MSc in Water Resources Engineering and has more than 30 years of international experience in the water and energy sector, in climate change related impacts in urban and industrial areas, and ecosystems. He spent the last 20 years in the multi-level European lobbying context in Brussels where he gained an outstanding knowledge of the EU R&I policies and funding programs. He worked for the Italian system of the Chambers of Commerce as R&I advisor, for the Lombardy Region Presidency Delegation to the EU and the DG REGIO as policy advisor. His previous experience with the UNDP, the ILO and as lecturer of well-known Universities in EU, Asia and Africa complete his profile. Andrea works at Water Europe in Brussels as Director of Operations and is in charge of the Market and Collaboration Programs with a strong focus on the Water-oriented Living Labs, which are a key tool for the implementation of Water Europe’s Water Vision “The Value of Water. Water Europe is the recognized voice and promotor of water-related R&I in Europe and gathers more than 200 members. Andrea is co-editor of the Atlas of the Water Oriented Living Labs (WoLLs) published in 2019 by Water Europe, that identifies and categorises by country and the use-context (i.e. agricultural, urban, industrial, and ecosystem) 105 WoLLs across Europe, following and applying the rationale of Water Europe Water Vision and its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.
Geoff Townsend
Water Europe Vision Leader Water Smart Industry, NALCO/ECOLAB
Geoff Townsend
Water Europe Vision Leader Water Smart Industry, NALCO/ECOLABDr Geoff Townsend engages in the strategic direction of Ecolab’s water and energy related innovation with an emphasis on enabling their customers to meet the challenges associated with water scarcity and water quality constraints. He has a PhD in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Cambridge. Geoff is actively engaged in a variety of Ecolab’s sustainability initiatives particularly in the area of water stewardship, context-based targeting and the water-energy-food nexus. He participated in the ISO Standard Committee for Water Footprinting (ISO 14046) and from its inception has been engaging with the Alliance for Water Stewardship. Geoff is the leader of Water Europe’s Cluster Theme ‘Water Smart Industry.
Jochen Froebrich
Water Europe, Vision Leader Water Smart Rural, Wageningen Environmental Research
Jochen Froebrich
Water Europe, Vision Leader Water Smart Rural, Wageningen Environmental ResearchDr. Jochen Froebrich is senior researcher at Wageningen Environmental Research. He graduated at the Leipniz University Hannover, Germany. Over more than two decades he had worked on solutions for key water challenges, such as water scarcity and drought and to reach a stronger link between land and water management, especially in Africa, Asia and in the Mediterranean area. His wide expertise in the area of land and water management allowed him to establish various interdisciplinary research teams, to coordinate successfully a variety of EU research projects and to execute transdisciplinary research. Today, his particular interest is related to co-innovations and public private partnerships, as e.g. for the establishment of innovation cooperatives in South Africa. For the network Water Europe, Dr. Froebrich is head of the cluster Water Smart Rural Areas. He is also member of the Steering group for the Dutch Food Security Alliance and involved together with the InnoFactory of Royal Eijkelkamp B.V. in the development of living lab approaches within and outside Europe.
Ines Vaittinen
International Project Manager
Ines Vaittinen
International Project ManagerInes is an International Project Manager and Developer at ENoLL. She has completed her Master’s degree studies in International Design Business Management at Aalto University and also has a background in Architecture (BSc from Politecnico di Milano). Her international background includes studying and working across 6 different countries. Professionally she has experience from Corporate Innovation (eg. Design Thinking, Strategic Innovation) and project work on user-centered design solutions for corporate clients in the field of service design, experience design and behavior design. Ines is currently specializing in co-creation techniques, tools and methodologies. Her main responsibilities at ENoLL include project management of EU-MACS, iSCAPE and SISCODE projects, performing a task leading role in UNaLab project as well as support on the U4IOT project, while lending her design-focused expertise across the board of projects and activities at ENoLL. Ines is responsible for the Learning Lab, a tailored training programme as well as consultancy offerings to learn more about Living Labs.
Agnieszka Włodarczyk-Gebik
Project Manager
Agnieszka Włodarczyk-Gebik
Project ManagerProject manager with experience in public, private and financial sector. In her professional career she was responsible for launching new products, co-creation of regional investment climate for foreign businesses, product development and implementation for British leading FMCG retailer. Since 2013 works for Krakow Technology Park. Project coordinator for regional & international projects in the field of smart city, innovation and technology transfer. Graduated from the Jagiellonian University, post diploma studies in SME & regional development and Warsaw Banking Institute. Since May 2018 involved in H2020 project SISCODE, in frame of which she co-designed and co-facilitated national workshop on the topic of air pollution.
Wojciech Przybylski
CEO, President of the Board
Wojciech Przybylski
CEO, President of the BoardCEO, President of the Board; 15 years of experience as manager in field of innovation in public, private and NGO sector. Since 2016 in the Board of KTP, before he was the Director of KTP Technology Park Department. Expert in fields such as Industry 4.0, smart city, digital transformation and modern economy models. Member of the board of ENOLL - the biggest network of Living Labs globally.
Monika Machowska
Project Manager
Monika Machowska
Project ManagerProject manager and manager of business support and development department, postgraduate studies in Economy at University of Economy in Krakow. Since 2002 experience in project management, in charge of R&D projects at the Jagiellonian University. Since 2008 works for Krakow Technology Park - in charge of managing projects focused mainly on innovation, technology transfer, entrepreneurship and infrastructure. Responsible for tenant recruitment process, tenant services and relations with companies in the park. Since May 2018 involved in H2020 project SISCODE, in frame of which she co-designed and co-facilitated national workshop on the topic of air pollution.
Aleksandra Gabriel
Specialist in European funds and international relations
Aleksandra Gabriel
Specialist in European funds and international relationsMaster of European Studies. Specialist in European funds and international relations. In her professional career she managed and coordinated numerous national and international training and research projects in the field of labour relations, employment and social affairs. Since January 2019 member of KPT team and part of H2020 project SISCODE, in frame of which she co-designed and co-facilitated national workshop on the topic of air pollution.