Best practices Database for Living Labs - ALCOTRA - Innovation

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7. Introduction One goal of the Alcotra Project is to identify best practices in order to support the regions in the take up and development of their respective Living Labs. However since the Living Lab concept as such is rather new and only few Living Lab are actually older than 4 years it is very difficult to identify best practices in this area. The best solutions to find best practice Living Labs is thus to utilize the experiences which has been gathered as part of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) were a lot of Living Labs are partners in. ENoLL is a non-profit organisation where a lot of Living Labs cooperate and exchange, thus leading to a good portfolio of case studies. Unfortunately these case studies are on the one hand highly diverse regarding there thematic orientation and secondly not yet categorized in a clear manner. Thus there is currently no general mechanism applied on how to measure the quality and performance of the Living Labs inside ENoLL. The only indication that exists about the success of a Living Lab is its capability to be sustainable over a certain period of time. As part of the EU projects Corelabs and CO-LLabs a database was developed which consists out of the application information that was submitted to the ENoLL in the respective calls for Living Lab membership. On the basis of this information a DB was developed which currently at least allows to search through the application forms to identify keywords etc. for research purposes. The project is co-funded by the ERDF Page 62 of 78
8. Ownership of existing Living Lab Best Practice data As stated above, the existing database was developed as part of the Corelabs and Collabs project. The Corelabs project trigger in the beginning an Idea that a formal framework should exists in which living labs could exchange ideas and experiences. It became very early evident that the living lab understanding was sometimes totally different from what was defined as a framework as part of the work in Corelabs, mainly defining a Living lab as an innovation environment with a strong user/citizen involvement and focus. In order to, on the one hand broaden the Living Lab community while at the same time trying to narrow the scope of the living lab, thematic calls for living lab partnership were published in different waves usually once a year. In order for a living lab to become part of the European Network of Living Labs an application form had to be filled out. The different calls for membership led to an development which now represent s the ENoLL with all it’s members. In this context it is important that the usage of the application data (that was handed in by the Living Lab applicants) was never discussed in detail nor did the application form as such gave any hints on how the data handed over by applying for an EnoLL membership were to be used. A matter of fact though is, that the first 3 calls and the respective evaluations of the applications where conducted as part of the Project Corelabs and Collabs, thus application handed in under the respective 3 calls need to be connected to the projects and their related project consortia, while the last two calls (4 th and 5ht wave) were conducted by the ENoLL organization/company. Thus the owner ship of the data received in the last two calls could reside with the ENoLL company. In any case as long as these issues are not clarified the data can’t be accesses publicly and thus the Database usage is at this time only for research purposes conducted at the FHV. 9. Structure of current Database As pointed out above, the database consists currently out of the application information that is divided into several subsections mainly consisting out of a section which can be identified as administrative data and a section that deals with the content of the Living Lab. The database was build up from the application forms that were submitted either as Word-file or as PDF. Thus the database consists out of one table which consists out of the following attributes: • LLUser • LLPassword • LLFullName • LLPostalAddress • LLZipCode • LLCountry • LLTelephone • LLFax • LLWebSite The project is co-funded by the ERDF Page 63 of 78
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Alcotra Innovation project Delivera
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