ACTIVITIES :: ICT PSP :: sevenfwp
ICT Priority of the co-operation Programme
Mainly under the Strategic Objective "Collaborative Working Environments" of the ICT theme under the Sixth Framework Programme, five Integrated Projects and three Co-ordination and Support Actions with a Community funding of over 40 M€ started in 2006. These projects are developing collaboration tools for co-operation in different kinds of partnerships. One of the major objectives cutting across this portfolio of projects is to apply, promote, pilot and demonstrate the methodology of Livings Labs in domains of particular importance for Europe.
In close collaboration, these projects have stimulated and supported the establishment of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), which is exceeding the number of 100 members in 2008. ENoLL is organising its governance and co-ordination activities according to common cross-cutting interests and in specific interest areas shared by groups of members, such as health and inclusion, energy and environment, and other emerging key domains.
In order to bring the user in the research cycle, the Work Programme for 2009-2010 of the ICT Priority of the FP7 Co-operation Programme, encourages proposers under all ICT Challenges to apply advanced user-driven open innovation methodologies such as Living Labs for better discovering new and emerging behaviours and use patterns, as well as for assessing at an early stage the socio-economic implications of new technological solutions. In addition, in order to co-ordinate and exchange best practices of Living Lab type activities across the programme, the Commission considers calling for coordination and support actions for experience research and user-driven open innovation activities under the research objective in Challenge 1 on "Future Internet Experimental Facility and Experimentally-driven Research".
