Living Labs :: Projects
Current developments and main projects
Major achievements of the past FP6 and CIP-PSP projects
- Strong SME focus on both the technology and service provider side, and on the user side.
- The European Network of Living Labs with a more than a hundred members
- Pilots and proof-of-concept demonstrations for Living Labs methodologies
- Interoperability of collaborative architectures
- Tools for highly innovative environments
These achievements have been funded mainly under Strategic Objective "Collaborative Working Environments" of the ICT theme under the 6th Framework Programme (FP6).
The activities under the CIP-PST theme "Sharing experience on ICT Initiatives for SMEs" project CO-LLABS complement the description focusing on innovation aspects.
Current developments and main projects
Applying Living Lab methodologies
Many recently started research, development and innovation projects under the ICT, CIP and other programmes include Living Labs as partners and apply Living Lab methodologies in order to bridge the gap to the market. Below are some representative examples of what role Living Labs are playing in such projects:
| PreCo: | Enhancing innovation in pre-commercial public purchasing processes. | factsheet | website |
| Dehems: | Challenges of collaborative working environment | factsheet | website |
| Save energy: | A better world through energy efficiency | factsheet | website |
| Target: | Transformative, adaptive, responsive and engaging environment | factsheet | website |
| GAINS: | ‘Innovation highway’ for Galileo | factsheet | website |
Advancing and piloting Living Labs methodologies
Since 2008, the Information Society and Media DG has promoted and piloted user-driven open innovation methodologies in the ICT policy support programme of the competitiveness and innovation programme (CIP) and the ICT work programmes.
| Collabs: | Community Based Living Labs to Enhance SMEs Innovation in Europe | factsheet | website |
| Apollon: | Advanced pilots of Living Labs operating in networks | factsheet | website |
| Fireball: | Future Internet towards Smart Cities by adopting Living Labs | factsheet | website |
Living Labs and the Future Internet Public Private Partnership
The goal of the FI PPP is twofold:
- to strengthen and further expand the competitive position of the European ICT industry, with special regard to sectors as telecommunication, operators, mobile devices, soft ware and service, content and media;
- to contribute to the irreversible policy trend towards a more sustainable society, by demonstrating that key business processes can be made smarter through tighter integration with Internet capabilities. In order to help closing the traditional gap between R&D and innovation, the FI PPP combines a medium-term “market pull” approach driven by the needs of policy applications, with a “technology push” approach matching the research agenda of major European technology suppliers. The resulting ecosystem will systematically bring together the demand and the supply sides, and will allow involving users early into the research lifecycle, thus contributing to shorten time to market of products and services.
