Express your personal Living Labs interest and initial vision for 2010 for European

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Express your personal Living Labs interest and initial vision for 2010 for European Network of Living Labs

Dear interested Living Labs co-creators,
Dear members of AMI@Work communities,

The Finnish Presidency will launch a European Network of Living Labs on 20th November 2006. This is a step towards a new European Innovation System (EIS). There is an urgent need to improve European-wide aspiration for innovation towards job creation and growth. Mr. Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland, has emphasized that the European Network of Living Labs is a concrete action for putting Lisbon strategy in real life.

A European Network of Living Labs is a public-private-citizens partnership for creating, prototyping and validating new services, businesses, markets and technologies in real-life contexts, such as urban areas, rural areas, cities, regions, and collaborative virtual networks. The real-life and everyday life contexts will both stimulate and challenge research and development. From a market and industry creation perspective the human-centric Living Labs offer a research and innovation platform over different social and cultural systems, cross-regionally and cross-nationally. The launch will also reflect the goals of the i2010 strategy of the EU for Innovation and Investment in Research.

Are you interested in Living Labs? What is your personal interest and contribution? What is your initial European Network of Living Labs vision for 2010?

To support this network launch, the CoreLabs Coordination Action and the COMIST Specific Support Action EU projects have announced on 6th October a

Living Labs expression of interest

To read what others have said already and to enter your own expression of interest, please see:

http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/ Launching_European_Network_of_Living_Labs


Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Yours sincerely,

Mikael Bφrjeson
Coordinator, CoreLabs Coordination Action
CEO, Centre for Distance-spanning Technologies (CDT), Luleε University of Technology

Dr Seija Kulkki
Policy WP Leader, CoreLabs Coordination Action
Living Labs Coordinator, Collaboration@Rural Integrated Project
Director, Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR), Helsinki School of Economics

Dr Αlvaro Oliveira
Main Organizer of the Portuguese Living Labs Days, Spring 2007
Managing Director, Alfamicro Lda

Roberto Santoro
Coordinator, COMIST Specific Support Action
Chair, AMI@Work family of communities
President, European Society of Concurrent Engineering (ESoCE-Net)

Prof Dr-Ing Klaus-Dieter Thoben
Main Organizer of the German Living Labs Days, September 2006
Director, Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science at the University of Bremen (BIBA)