European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) - Launch Event for the 5th wave of Living Labs was on 16 May 2011, Gerbeaud Event House, Budapest, Hungary

Networked Living Labs supporting the Digital Agenda for Europe

The aim of the event was to discuss the role and the value of European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) and User Driven Open Innovation in the context of the societal challenges of our time as defined in the EU 2020 Strategy by the European Commission.
The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) supports the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as a clear and concise European strategy to address the current economic, financial, societal and environmental challenges. In particular ENoLL supports the Digital Agenda for Europe, one of the seven flagship initiatives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, which sets out to define the key enabling role that the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will have to play if Europe wants to succeed in its ambitions for 2020. Thus, by harnessing the full potential of ICT, Europe could much better address some of its most acute societal challenges: climate change and other pressures on our environment, an ageing European population and rising health costs, as well as developing more efficient public services and inclusion of citizens.
Living labs are open platforms to engage user communities as contributors to innovations. They provide real-life user needs definition testing facilities offered by local Public-Private-Partnerships with People. ENoLL currently coordinates 212 benchmarked Living Labs in Europe as well as outside.
Together, the ENoLL members support the 'Innovation Lifecycle' for all actors in the system: end-users, SMEs, corporations, public sector and academia (http://www.openlivinglabs.eu). During the event ENoLL, the European Commission and the Hungarian Presidency will publicly announce the 5th wave of new Living Lab members.


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For more information please, contact to Nikoletta Batori (enoll@corvinno.hu).


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