APOLLON

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Contacts
Roberto Santoro Roberto Santoro
Dissemination and Sustainability WP6 Leader (email)
ESoCE-NET, Rome, Italy
Chiara Santoro Chiara Santoro
Dissemination and Sustainability WP6 (email)
ESoCE-NET, Rome, Italy
Events

2010 APOLLON events

  • 13-14 April 2010, Living Labs, User Driven Open Innovation and Future Internet

ENoLL "4th wave" launch event under the Spanish Presidency, Valencia, Spain Registration

  • September 2010, 2010 ICT event, organised by the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Other interesting events

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  • One of the main strengths of the Living Lab approach is its ability to merge research and innovation processes with the local, real-life context. Over the past years, an increasing number of Living Labs have started operations throughout Europe, and are forming a vibrant and still growing community. It is clear that networking and federation at a European scale is needed in order to fully leverage the strength of these locally embedded labs. Current initiatives focus e.g. on the exchange of general principles and best practices for individual Living Labs.
  • The APOLLON project will take the next step in networking and harmonising Living Lab approaches throughout Europe. It will evaluate the positive impact of domain-specific cross-border Living Lab networks. This approach enables SMEs to test and experiment their products and services outside of their home market and gain access to a true European market space, while being supported by large industrial companies, academic centres and other Living Lab stakeholders.

APOLLON selected four domains in which ICT products and services innovation may benefit most from cross-border Living Lab networking: Homecare, Energy Efficiency, eManufacturing and eParticipation through Social Media. The main objectives of the APOLLON project are

  • 1. to conduct cross-border Living Lab pilots, aimed in particular at SMEs,
  • 2. to harmonise methodologies and tools for cross-border Living Lab projects, and
  • 3. to create sustainable cross-border domain-specific Living Lab networks

The APOLLON Consortium consists of 28 Core Partners in 10 European member states. It involves Living Labs, SMEs, large ICT companies as well as research partners. Through a close co-operation with the European Network of Living Labs, wide dissemination and involvement of the Living Lab community is ensured.

At this stage, APOLLON has already established a large community of interest, not only within the Consortium itself, but also by involving a large number of supporting partners. At the kick-off of the project, 65 organisations from 23 member states in Europe have signed a Letter of Support, expressing their interest in supporting the project and committing to one or several domain focuses.

You too can support APOLLON and gain front row access to the development of the project outcomes : download your Image:doc letter of support!


Contents

[edit] News from APOLLON

[edit] GNSS Living Lab Prize: a 10.000 euro opportunity!

The GNSS Living Lab Prize (supported by the GNSS Supervisory Authority through the GAINS project has been launched during the Galileo Application Days 2010 event, held in Brussels on 3-5 March 2010.

The GNSS Living Lab Prize calls for developers and users, engineers of research institutes, and development departments but also from new ventures, to submit proposals for GNSS-related products and services ready to be tested and ideally implemented in suitable Living Labs. 

     Submissions of the ideas to the prize shall focus on the following themes: health, energy and media.
     Each theme will produce a winner, whose owner will be awarded with 10.000 EUR.

As part of the prize, the winning ideas will undergo to an experimentation in those Living Labs, who will demonstrate to offer the best testing infrastructure, the most suitable users communities and the most attractive implementation and exploitation potential.

The opportunity for Living Labs is that both financial and consulting support will be available for selected Living Labs to facilitate and support the implementation of winning ideas in Living Labs context.

The timetable for the GNSS Living Lab Prize is as follows:

  • 3-5 March 2010: Official launch of the European Satellite Navigation Competition;
  • 1st May to 31st July 2010: Ideas submission;
  • 1st August to 30 September 2010: Ideas evaluation;
  • 3rd week of October 2010 (TBC): Award ceremony in Munich;
  • 1st December 2010 to 31st January 2011: Submission of proposal from Living Labs, for adopting and implementing the winning ideas;
  • 1st of April 2011 (TBC): Start of the trials in the selected Living Labs.

Take this opportunity! Visit www.galileo-masters.eu and discover how to participate.

Additional information can be also found at www.gsa.europa.eu.

[edit] 14 April 2010: ENoLL "4th wave" launch event in Valencia under the Spanish Presidency and consolidation of the network

The 4th Call for new ENoLL members has been launched on 7th October 2009 and closed on 25th January 2010. ENoLL has received 118 membership applications from 36 different countries. On April 14th, 2010 the applicants will enter the network and will be introduced to the other Living Labs.

To know the "new entries" and to discover more about the European Network of Living Labs, visit www.openlivinglabs.eu ..you will be very welcome!

Would like to join? Please register here and take part to the joint event of the European Network of Living Labs – ENoLL and Future Internet Assembly – FIA.

[edit] Consortium and Partner Network

The APOLLON consortium brings together a strong selection of committed partners that lead the current cross-border Living Lab developments on a European and even worldwide scale. These partners include:

  • the current European Living Labs and their associated academic and public partners that are arguably among the most prominent and/or promising Living Lab entities in their respective domains, and that have already taken the lead in federating and networking Living Labs throughout Europe
  • leading European ICT industrial stakeholders
  • innovative SMEs that have or need access to other European national markets.

The Apollon Consortium unites 28 core partners. It includes large enterprises, SMEs, Living Labs, Universities and research centres as well as governments and public organisations (through their (in)direct involvement in the Living Labs). Through a close co-operation with the European Network of Living Labs, wide dissemination and involvement of the Living Lab community is ensured.

Living Labs themselves are designed to create a sustainable ecosystem for large industrial companies, SMEs, governments and citizens to cooperate in open innovation. Therefore, industrial partners and SMEs are equally important to the success of this project. The APOLLON Consortium counts 11 SMEs, located throughout Europe, and actively involved in Living Lab operations today.

On top of that, the APOLLON consortium has major industrial lead market players on board: SAP, as well as Nokia are active participants in their fields of interest, and provide a general support to the project itself. On top of that, large players as Philips have signed a Letter of Support, committing their know-how and feedback to the project.

APOLLON strives to be an open project in which participation with all stakeholders is highly important. Therefore the APOLLON has already established at this stage a large Living Labs basis by not only having the key Living Labs as a corepartner but also by involving a large number of supporting partners. At this stage, 65 organisations throughout Europe have signed a letter of support, committing to one or several vertical domain focuses. Each of these partners are already quite active in the domain of Living labs, user driven development and open innovation.

The two sections below offer an overview of the Consortium composition and the Supporting Partners.


[edit] Consortium Overview

  • IBBT, Belgium - Pieter Ballon, Koen De Vos
  • 3D2+, France - Stéphane Gaultier, Anne-Caroline Abel
  • Alfamicro, Portugal - Álvaro de Oliveira, Manuel Collares Pereira
  • ESoCE Net, Italy - Roberto Santoro, Olivier Rerolle
  • FIAPAL, Portugal - João José Robalo Lopes, António Manuel Pombinho Costa Guilherme
  • IAVANTE, Spain - Juan Lago Cabrera, Bidatzi Marin Bastida
  • Issy Media, France - Eric Légale, Sebastien Levy
  • Navidis, France - Philippe Perennez, Nils Aziosmanofff
  • Nokia, Finland - Veli-Pekka Niitamo
  • SAP AG, Germany - Carsten Puschke, Anirban Majumdar
  • Televic, Belgium - Saar De Zutter, Piet Verhoeve
  • Ydreams, Portugal - Edmundo Nobre, Silvia Santos


[edit] Join APOLLON! Supporting Partners Overview

You too can support APOLLON and gain front row access to the development of the project outcomes.

For expressing your intent to support APOLLON download here your Image:doc letter of support!

The following organisations have already expressed their intent to support APOLLON:

  • 3D Living Innovation, France
  • 83 Degrees South, Ireland
  • Adv. Information Modelling Institute, Slovenia
  • AF 83, France
  • Agilion GmbH, Germany
  • Alcatel Lucent, Belgium
  • Alcatel Touch-a-Tag, Belgium
  • Arches, Romania
  • Arquiled, Portugal
  • ArraboCAD Ltd., Hungaria
  • Bearstech, France
  • Bertin Technologies, France
  • CENI, Portugal
  • Cesbio, France
  • Companhia de Desenvolvimento de Vitoria (CDV), Brazil
  • Copenhagen Living Lab, Denmark
  • Creative Knowledge Center Living lab, Hungary
  • Culminatum Innovation Oy, Finland
  • Cyber Care Clinique Living Lab, Switzerland
  • Digital Spaces Living Lab, Bulgaria
  • eHealth Living Lab
  • Engelux, Brazil
  • ENTAL Research Development and Consulting ltd, Hungaria
  • evolaris Mobile Living Lab, Austria
  • Fabernovel, France
  • Halmstad Living Lab, Sweden
  • Homokhati Rural Living Lab, Hungaria
  • i2CatLab, Sweden
  • ICT Usage, France
  • ICT Valle Turkey
  • Imeguisa Portugal
  • Institu Nokia de Tecnologia (INdT), Brazil
  • Laurea Living Lab, Finland
  • Lens Living Lab, Slovenia
  • Lighting Living Lab
  • Living Lab ALL Gyou (Dension)
  • Living Labs Cybermoon, UK
  • Living Lab Levier, France
  • Living Lab Malta
  • Living Lab NorthRull, Finland
  • Living Lab Thessaly, Greece
  • LL for Design and Services, Finalnd
  • LL Oresund
  • Logica Suomi Oy (Logica Finland), Finland
  • Meshining Engineering Kft, Hungaria
  • NIK - Nuremberg Initiative for Communication Industry, Germany
  • Nuremberg Mobile Applications Centre for Elderly & Disabled, Germany
  • PaTHs Living Lab, South Africa
  • Philips Applied Technology, South Africa
  • Pole d'application des Techniques Satellitaires, France
  • Process Vision NL
  • Regione Piemonte Liaison Office, Italy
  • Rio Nacimiento Living Lab, Spain
  • Self Energy, Portugal
  • Smart House Madrid, Spain
  • Stichting Living Lab, The Netherlands
  • Suupohja LL Finland
  • TASLAB - LL Trentino, Italy
  • The Espoo City Planning Board, Finland
  • ubigrate GmbH, Germany
  • Universidade Federal Do Esperito Santo (UFES), Brazil
  • Varinex Informatics, Hungaria
  • Viral Living Lab, Germany
  • Virtech, Bulgaria
  • Virtual Dimension Center, Germany
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