The topic debates are linked with ENoLL’s Action Oriented Task Forces (AOTF). The Action Oriented Task Forces of ENoLL are created to further enforce collaboration between different stakeholders in a certain topic field. These task forces are open to everyone inside and outside our network. During our Digital living lab days we focus on the emerging themes and topics within our task forces during our so called ‘Topic Debates’. Of course we highlight the Action oriented task forces as a whole on Friday morning as well.
Currently, there are 5 working AOTFs.
- Social Innovation and Digital Rights
- Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Rural Living Labs
- Health and Wellbeing
- Energy and Environment
There will be five different topics debates during the course of three days:
Can Living labs operate as open research infrastructures?
DAY 1: Wednesday, 2 September, 14:00-15:30
Co-creating from farm to fork: the Stems and the seeds of Agro ecosystem living labs
DAY 1: Wednesday, 2 September, 16:00-17:30
The role of Living Labs in supporting the development of universal access to social innovation ecosystems
DAY 2: Thursday, 3 September, 11:00-12:30
Living Labs in the Water Sector: political, social and technical aspects
DAY 2: Thursday, 3 September, 14:00-15:30
Unveiling the Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence
DAY 2: Thursday, 3 September, 16:00-17:30
Can Living labs operate as open research infrastructures?
When: Wednesday 2 September, 14:00-15:30
Moderator: Evdokimos Konstantinidis (Thess-AHALL)
The research community in the Health and Wellbeing domain has invested a great deal of effort in establishing new Living Labs in order to support their research. They have also invested in learning about methodologies of user engagement and co-creation, such as design thinking, focus groups and ideation. An important challenge in this line of research is to create trust between researchers and local communities as they evaluate and exploit research results. This has caused the creation of many project-oriented Living Labs that serve specific research purposes and have a lifecycle similar to a projects’ duration, thus leading to higher costs, non-optimal use of resources, time and distribution of work and expertise, limited exploitation of research results from local communities.
Session structure:
- Introduction of AOTF by Evdokimos Konstantinidis: The vision and mission of the Health and Wellbeing Living Labs action oriented task force along with short-term goals on harmonization.
- Tuija Hirvikoski: the high level view
- Geert Christiaansen (Philips): The value of living labs as open research infrastructures: what they can offer
- Vicky Van der Auwera (Licalab Living Lab): How can living labs operate as open research infrastructures: challenges
- Johannes Klumpers (EC): How EC envisages a large network of open research infrastructures; funding opportunities
This session is a panel discussion with active participation of the audience.
Expected outcomes after the session:
- Explore the position of the EC, a large tech company and living labs coming from academia on considering the living labs as open research infrastructures
- Get a better insight on the demands and offers form different stakeholders on living labs as open research infrastructures
- Identify the short-term challenges that must be addressed in order to enhance openness of living labs as research infrastructure
- Living labs should get clear messages for their strategic plans
Speakers
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
President, European Network of Living Labs, Thess-AHALL Researcher,
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
President, European Network of Living Labs, Thess-AHALL Researcher,Dr Evdokimos Konstantinidis is the leader of the Assistive Technologies and Silver Science Research Group in the Lab of Medical Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received the Diploma in electronic engineering from the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, in 2004, the M.Sc. degree in medical informatics in 2008 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the Ph.D. degree in the Laboratory of Medical Physics of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2015. His research interests lie predominately in the area of medical informatics, particularly within assistive technologies (silverscience, silvergaming, mobile health)
Co-creating from farm to fork: the Stems and the seeds of Agro ecosystem living labs
When: Wednesday 2 September, 16:00-17:30
Moderator: Muriel Mambrini (INRAE)
Session structure:
- Introduction of the AOTF: How do agriculture Living labs fit within the Rural &Agriculture Living Labs task force
- Place-based living labs and the defining characteristics of agroecosystem living labs
- An ICT-focused living lab in agriculture by PA4ALL
- Towards a European vision for a network of agroecology living labs by DG AGRI
Moderated interactive panel discussion with active participation of the audience around the following questions:
1. What do these various types of living labs have in common and what makes them unique?
2. What are their specific needs?
3. How can/will we map them in the field?
4. Other best practices
Expected outcomes after the session:
- Drill into and explore some key concepts around the various forms of living labs in agriculture
- Discussion that really captures this important new wave of living labs in agriculture,
including three key approaches that are closely related but distinct: agroecosystem living labs, ICT-focused living labs in agriculture, and agroecology living labs - Focus on agriculture/agroecosystem/agroecology
Speakers
Milica Trajković
Head of Business Development Department at BioSense Institute, PA4ALL
Milica Trajković
Head of Business Development Department at BioSense Institute, PA4ALLMs. 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.
Muriel Mambrini-Doudet
Director of Research at INRAE
Muriel Mambrini-Doudet
Director of Research at INRAEMuriel Mambrini-Doudet holds two qualifications, sustainability science and innovative science management. She is research director at Inrae, currently i) adviser at the scientific directorate for accelerating open innovation and transdisciplinarity in research-education-industry- government hubs concerned by agriculture, food and environment (notably living labs), ii) director of the international doctoral school “frontiers of innovation in research and education” welcoming outstanding interdisciplinary projects at the interface between life science- education-digital, and iii) researcher at the industrial chair “theory and methods of design thinking”. Prior to this role, she was the director of the Institut des Hautes Etudes pour la Science et la Technologie, which trains top managers from public and private organization to the scientific approach to reduce the distance between science and society. From 2008 to 2014 she headed the largest research center of Inrae (1 500 staff, 35 scientific laboratories), after having served as scientific adviser to Inrae’s CEO. At each step of her scientific career, she has been working at the interface between at least two disciplines in order to contribute to the sustainable development of the sector she was working for. She holds a PhD in nutrition, defended her habilitation to steer research at the interface between nutrition and genetics, authored more than 50 international publication in various disciplinary fields (biological sciences, management sciences, epistemology).
The role of Living Labs in supporting the development of universal access to social innovation ecosystems
When: Thursday 3 September, 11.00AM:12.30PM
Moderator: Carolyn Hassan (KWMC)
Expected outcomes after the session:
- What does social innovation looks like from others perspectives?
- To put forward the work around the collaboratory model (different types of funding)
- Provide ENoLL as a transformant agent to EC
Structure of the debate:
The session starts with an introduction to the experience of Living Lab over the years – engaging with Smart
City, Citizen Science, Social Innovation, Tech Innovation networks, and our thinking about living lab role in these networks.
- How do we connect with and learn from different approaches and think about Lab of Labs to enable a more inclusive and socially just society?
- How has the Collaboratory emerged from ENoLL experience of collaborating with other networks?
- Artur Serra (i2Cat) will present the Collaboratory and how access to social innovation for all is being delivered; what has been achieved and next steps.
- How does this approach go beyond access to technology and co-design of tech solutions but includes rethinking approaches to supporting
social innovation and building a new infrastructure. This is happening with the support of
policy makers and different stakeholders.
The following cases will be presented:
Prof. Aawatif Hayar, President of the Casablanca University in Morocco will talk about social innovation approach in their country
A representative from Bristol University
A presentation by Ryan Titley (ERRIN) on how can this approach to universal access to social innovation be
scaled up?
This will be a moderated, interactive panel discussion with active participation of the audience.
Speakers
Artur Serra
i2CAT deputy Director, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights lead
Artur Serra
i2CAT deputy Director, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights leadArtur Serra Hurtado (1954), Alicante (Spain). Deputy Director of the Foundation i2cat Foundation, research and innovation centre about the Internet. PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Barcelona, specialised in technological cultures. In 2006, launched the Cultural Ring, the first experimental network bandwidth for the cultural sector, connecting cultural centers in Catalonia and around the world, including Latin America through the Anilla Cultural Latinoamericana. Interested in the connection between the technology and the citizenry, since 1995 he developed some projects design and launched the first citizen networks in Spain and Europe (BCNet, Ravalnet, …) culminating them in the organisation of the First World Congress Citizens Network (Barcelona 2000). Currently, his line of research focuses on the design and implementation of living labs, new innovation structures open to the entire citizenry. In 2007 he launched the Citilab, the first European citizen lab.
Tuija Hirvikoski
Emerita president of ENoLL holding a PhD in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystem relationship)
Tuija Hirvikoski
Emerita president of ENoLL holding a PhD in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystem relationship)Dr. Tuija Hirvikovski, emerita president of ENoLL has received a Ph.D. in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystem relationship). Hirvikoski has held various managerial positions at different Finnish higher education institutions and governmental institutions focusing on sustainable regional and societal development such as being a long-term Vice-President of Laurea. She has contributed to the development of several EU funded RDI projects particularly in the field of holistic and citizen-driven service innovation, eHealth and Wellbeing, Smart Citizens and Entrepreneurship. Hirvikoski represents Laurea in national and international organizations such as Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Coordinating Committee, ENoLL, Committee of the Regions, EC OSPP, Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Centre and an invited expert on the EC European University Vision 2030 group. In 2016, she was rewarded with the international Innovation Luminary Award.
Living Labs in the Water Sector: political, social and technical aspects
When: Thursday 3 September, 14.00-15:30
Moderated by: Joëlle Mastelic & Florian Bürki
This workshop is organised in the framework of the Energy & Environment Taskforce of the European network of Living Labs ENoLL. Over the last two years, numerous Living Labs initiatives in the water sector have emerged. In order to raise awareness of these new initiatives, to connect the projects to the people responsible for carrying EU water policies and to facilitate networking, this workshop gives them a voice. It is co-organised by Water Europe and will demonstrate the links between public policies at the macro level, projects in Living Lab mode in the meso level, particularly in the H2020 framework program, and the tools implemented in the sector, representing the micro level.
Why participating:
– To better understand the European context
– To discover European projects that are starting up in the water sector
– To network between key players in the sector
– To find out more about existing funding opportunities for Living Labs
Expected outcomes after the session: Awareness on the context and activities, networking among the actors, increase in interactions.
Structure of the debate:
- Joelle Mastelic: Introduction of ENoLL Action Oriented Task Force and how does water fit into this task force
- Andrea Rubini: The high level view of the context
- Presentation of 3 use cases
o Dimitris Xevgenos – Executive Project Coordinator WATER-MINING, Tu Delft
o Frank Rogalla – Executive Project Coordinator, REWAISE, FCC Aqualia
o Kristina Wencki – Executive Project Coordinator, B-WaterSmart
Patrizia Busolini Policy part: the view from EU
Followed by a discussion in a round table format.
Speakers:
Joëlle Mastelic
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
Joëlle Mastelic
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western SwitzerlandDr Joëlle Mastelic is professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland. She has been teaching for 12 years in the fields of Business Economics and Energy and Environmental Techniques, in particular in the Energy Management major. She has also developed continuing education courses: CAS on "Sustainable Marketing" and participated in the launch of the interdisciplinary Master "New Product Development";. As a researcher, she is part of the InnoLab Unit (Entrepreneurship and Management Institute) and the Water Group (Energy and Environment Institute). Her area of expertise is innovation and marketing in the field of energy. She is in charge of the Energy Living Lab, a living laboratory whose aim is to put the user at the centre of the energy transition by co- developing innovative solutions with him. This laboratory has notably collaborated with Romande Energie, Transports Publics du Chablais and Losinger Marazzi by proposing service design approaches. It is currently working on disseminating the results by creating social franchises for the Energy Living Lab, with the support of the HES-SO strategic fund. Her publications and interventions focus on the empowerment and engagement of key stakeholders in the process of energy innovation within regional ecosystems. In terms of networking, she is part of the board of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) as head of the Energy and Environment Taskforce. She is responsible for the Living Labs for Decarbonisation of Energy national program, financed by InnoSuisse, which brings together more than 20 partners, including Swiss Post and SBB, and whose aim is to develop a portfolio of innovative projects supported by InnoSuisse in the field of decarbonisation of energy. At the European level, it is an expert for the European Commission, and is collaborating in particular on the transformation of the Joint Research Center site in Ispra into a Living Lab dedicated to the energy and mobility of the future. As organizer and moderator, she has organized and facilitated numerous conferences, such as the Energy Forum on the integration of consumers in the energy transition: http://www.energyforum-vs.ch. She also moderated a workshop during the International Days of Sociology of Energy in Tours on the theme Information and support: what tools, what challenges? http://www.socio-energie2015.fr. She was the moderator of the day on Energy Transition: new roles for buildings and neighbourhoods? at the HEIG in Fribourg: http://pst-fr.com/zero-carbone. She has organised and moderated numerous participatory workshops, in particular in the framework of the international conferences Open Living Lab Days https://openlivinglabdays.com and Sustainable Energy Week https://www.eusew.eu. She has co-organised the Open Living Lab Days in Geneva with more than 500 participants and introduced by the UN office director. The participants have worked on the role of Living Labs to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN https://www.ge.ch/agenda/open-living-lab-days-2018-olld.
Unveiling the Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
When: DAY 2: Thursday, 3 September, 16:00-17:30
Moderated by: Prof. Fernando Vilariño
It is a well-known fact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the main topics of interest in our societies. In a few years time, AI has trespassed the walls of Academia and has become one of the main pillars for innovation-led growth. Institutions such as the European Commission have placed AI in the center of their policies, and eventually, a deep debate has been created around the actual impact or impacts that AI will have in the years to come. But, are we aware of these impacts? Can we actually foresee such impacts or act with AI as we did with other technology revolutions in History? The aim of this session is to start to unveil the actual impact of AI, as a process of co-creation, deeply related to the way in which this essential transformations will be accessible to everyone. Will living labs play a crucial role in democratisation of AI, in the definition of the new societies around AI solutions?
Why participating:
– To better understand the implications of AI in our day by day
– To discover European and Global projects that are created around different dimensions of the social impact of AI.
– To network between key players in the sector
– To find out more about existing funding opportunities for Living Labs
Expected outcomes after the session: Awareness on the context and activities, networking among the actors, increase in interactions.
Structure of the debate:
- Prof. Fernando Vilariño (Computer Vision Center – ENoLL): Introduction of ENoLL Action Oriented Task Force and how does Social Impact of AI fit into this task force
- Ms. Mayte Hidalgo (Everis): How social impact of AI is becoming a key element for the small and large scale projects.
- Ms. Andrea Halmos (DG-CONNECT, European Commission): How AI-enabled solutions can help cities and communities make better decisions and achieve climate related-objectives.
- Mr. Amir Banifatemi (AI for Good, AI COMMONS, XPrize): AI for Good and AI COMMONS. Empowering everyone in the world to solve our social challenges.
Followed by a discussion in a round table format.
Fernando Vilariño
Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab
Fernando Vilariño
Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab
Prof. 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.