Best practices Database for Living Labs - ALCOTRA - Innovation

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
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