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Rural development
Technical university of Kosice - Slovakia
www.tuke.sk
Rural development pilot responds to the difficult financial situation of rural municipalities inhibiting the development of
these areas. Moreover, underdeveloped areas become less attractive for citizens causing emigration of creative human
resources, critical for future prosperity, what places rural areas into vicious circle. Pilot activities aim to improve financial
situation of rural areas through a set of tools for effective spend management. Municipalities will be provided with intelligent
procurement system bringing together modern procurement services and educational and communicational platform for
knowledge sharing in the community of buyers in order to improve their buying skills. The working group of 20
municipalities from Eastern Slovakia, providers of procurement solutions, researchers and policy makers was created in
order to support current and further development of such a system. Potential of this pilot will be tested in the neighborhood
foreign regions.
For more information, please visit: http://rural-development.centralivinglab.eu
Eco-Tourism
Faculty for Organisational Sciences - Slovenia
www.fov.uni-mb.si
The pilot that we are creating is a platform where Tourist Service Providers (TSP) and Tourists share a common
'playground'; meaning that Tourist Service Providers upload their existing touristical offers and Tourists upload their
'Real-life' experiences of attractions and routes they have discovered. TSP thus have an insight as to what tourists actually
want. We will encourage all stakeholders to participate in the co-creation of the platform to make it as alive as possible, as
it is based on the Living Lab concept where all stakeholders need to participate to reap the maximum result. The platform
enables logging in via social media or manually; it enables account creating, text, photo and video uploading and
sharing/using existing attractions or routes. The platform is user friendly and has the possibility of adding new countries
and new services to it. The fact that it is an online portal, there are practically no limits in transnational usage of it.
For more information, please visit: http://eco-tourism.centralivinglab.eu
Mobility
Vorarlberg University of Applied Science (FHV) - Austria
www.fhv.at
FHV conducts a pilot in the e-mobility sector in cooperation with the electric car trial VLOTTE in Vorarlberg, Austria.
VLOTTE is owned and run by the Vorarlberg electricity service provider VKW. At its initiation VLOTTE was the largest
electric car trial in Europe with approx. 150 cars and actually has more than 360 cars. VLOTTE offers e-car leasing and
buying processing for private and public customers.The e-mobility living lab pilot executed by FHV has the following
objectives:• User involvement and requirements• Public aids and funds for e-mobility for innovation in mobility• More
efficient use of existing electric cars and more according to end-user needs• Create sustainable ecosystem for innovation
in the e-mobility sector in the Vorarlberg regionVorarlberg’s location is unique. Its boarders connect to Liechtenstein,
Switzerland and Germany. Mobility is demanded due to transnational business and work carried out and strong dynamics
in the area.
For more information, please visit: http://mobility.centralivinglab.eu
Pilot activities
CentraLab
Central European Living Lab
for Territorial Innovation
Broad-reaching laboratory for innovation and competitiveness
“Co-design” process with end users
New policy framework for Knowledge Economy
PROJECT FACTS
Title: CentraLab - Central European Living Lab for Territorial Innovation (3CE400P1)
Programme: Central Europe Programme - European Territorial Cooperation Objective
Duration: 1.5.2011 – 30.4.2014 (36 months)
Lead Partner: E-Institute (SI)
E-mail: info@centralivinglab.eu
Website: www.centralivinglab.eu
10 Project partners from 8 EU countries
CONTACT
Matjaž FRAS
E-zavod, Zavod za celovite razvojne rešitve
E-Institute, Institute for Comprehensive Development Solutions
Čučkova ulica 5, 2250 Ptuj, Slovenia
Tel: +386 (0)2 749 32 27
E-mail: matjaz.fras@ezavod.si
Website: www.ezavod.si
This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF
The CentraLab project is based on a promising approach that has emerged in the area of ICT under the name “Living Lab”.
In this model, technology R&D brings infrastructures into real-life contexts to enable a “co-design” process with end users.
The specific objective of CentraLab is to apply the Living Lab approach transversally across a broad range of policy fields
relevant to Central European regional development, constructing a multi-level governance network for a trans-national
Central European Living Lab.
One of the main activities within the CentraLab project is a coordinated set of trans-national pilot projects that build
partnerships, specify ICT platforms and services, and co-design innovative approaches for ten issues of shared concern:
Eco-tourism, Energy, Micro-SME Networks, Media & Creativity, Mobility, Environment & Education, Climate Change,
Waste Management, Rural Development and eHealth.
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THEMATIC PILOTS
Environment and education
Czech Center for Science and Society - Czech republic
www.ccss.cz
The various organization (universities, state administrative) and projects produce huge number of various educational
materials connected with environment (e.g. tutorials, presentation, texts, articles, book etc.). The pilot is developing
so-called “smart catalogue” that will be able to transform users' requirements to formalized language that could be used by
knowledge base to search relevant study material. The catalogue uses the semantic and modern web technologies (HTML
5, ontological principles). The proposed solution is based on international standards and it is open. Therefore every user
can implement catalogue to his product. The interregional cooperation is supported also by using UTF standard (different
types of alphabets) and by ontology elements referring to multilinguality. Partners of projects as well as other cooperating
organisations and institutes are invited to participation on catalogue.
For more information, please visit: http://environment-and-education.centralivinglab.eu
Energy efficiency
Micro SME network
E-Institute, Institute for Comprehensive Development Solutions - Slovenia
www.ezavod.si
Kielce Technology Park - Poland
www.technopark.kielce.pl
Using energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) sources/technologies significantly reduces greenhouse gases
emissions and contributes to the environmental protection. E-Institute with stakeholders (energy agencies, development
agencies, local authorities, energetic-ICT-engineering-other SME's and end-users) developed pilot project - Sustainable
Energy Investment Decision Aid tool for house and small business owners "EnergyHouseAID".EnergyHouseAID is an
Interpretation user friendly application for web - a decision support tool used to effectively evaluate potential investments
in green energy technologies. Users are able to view the impact on overall economic value of various EE&RE combinations
to make their buildings/homes more energy efficient involving also financial-environmental impact. The pilot model can be
easily replicated and adapted elsewhere, thanks to the high interoperability of the web platform and the fact that the
necessity of reduce energy costs is widespread.
The pilot network consists of over 70 startups located in Kielce Technology Park (KTP), external companies and people
with business ideas. For them KTP developed an information system supporting management of knowledge, resources
and relationship with companies. New functionalities improve communication with clients, promote the companies offers,
simplify establishing a firm and support management. Developed elements are devoted into 3 zones: I - for people who
plans to set up a business, incl.: web application for creating a professional business plan; an electronic calculator to count
a rent space, additional fees in KTP infrastructure; II - for KTP tenants, incl.: intranet; interactive database; III - for external
companies incl. mobile webpage; conference rooms booking online; infokiosks. The transnational application created for
all pilot project end users is a Partner Search which allows to find a business partner and meet with him during the
announced event.
For more information, please visit: http://energyefficiency.centralivinglab.eu
For more information, please visit: http://micro-sme-networks.centralivinglab.eu
Open Innovation and Usability
Climate Change
CyberForum e.V. - Germany
www.cyberforum.de
Informatica Trentina - Italy
www.infotn.it
Usability testing and open innovation processes enable companies to develop products in cooperation with end-users.
These processes result in products that are very close to the needs of the market. In order to strengthen the role of usability
tests and open innovation processes in SMEs, two companies, a research institution as well as an IT-business-network
have made a concept for a Living Lab (LL) that combines these two process types. During the testing phase the LL,
implemented as an Internet-based IT-platform, will be available for all stakeholders of the SmarterCity Karlsruhe. They will
not only be able to test their own software but also to give feedback, discuss their own ideas on the LL and thus contribute
to the overall concept – and thus they themselves will be involved in an open innovation process. After finalizing the
concept the LL will be translated in English and made available for all CentraLab partners and their member companies
who will also be able to use the LL.
Informatica Trentina is developing a pilot project about climate change, with particular regards to energy conservation in
the public domain. As a matter of fact, public lighting is one of the main items of expenditure and a significant source of
energy consumption. In the Municipality of Campodenno Centralab will develop a remote monitoring project of the public
lighting system by adopting pervading and intelligent systems in a Smart City perspective. By using an autonomous and
open remote monitoring net, it will also be possible to transmit further information pertaining both environmental monitoring
and the video surveillance. Information regarding environment and energy will be made available to all citizens with the
help of a web-app. The project has been planned in collaboration with the main stakeholders of the territory – such as the
Municipal Administration, the Municipalities Consortium of the BIM of Adige, Trento Rise etc. under the supervision of
Trentino As a Lab.
For more information, please visit: http://media-and-creativity.centralivinglab.eu
For more information, please visit: http://climate-change.centralivinglab.eu
Waste Management
e-Health
Corvinno Technology Transfer Center - Hungary
www.corvinno.hu
Regione Piemonte, Direction Research & Innovation - Italy
This pilot aims to establish a system where ecological, economical and public administration requirements can be
harmonized in the waste management domain. Several stakeholders (companies, policy makers, and experts) are
involved. The ICT platform supports data-driven and agile policy making. In this ICT driven model, technology brings
infrastructures into real-life contexts to enable a “co-design” process with end users.The solution maps the general lifecycle
of policy making process, it has three main blocks: portal, ontology learning block and interpretation block. Portal is used
to support posting, issuing draft policies, comments and opinion articulation about policies and discussion with
stakeholders. Ontology learning block helps to analyse and understand discussion and provide the context for the
discussion. Interpretation block provide feedback and interpretation for policy makers.
The pilot consists in the development of a test-bed and the creation of an APP that should allow public authorities to have
a unified system of control of parking card for disabled people. Stakeholders involved belong to different fields, from
municipalities to research centres and end-users associations. They cooperated together in order to find out a solution that
could integrate already existing systems, facilitating administrative simplification, with an easy delivering of the device,
using on-line procedures.Since the European card improves the possibility of people with disabilities to circulate in the EU,
the solution developed intends to be transferred in the partner regions with the objective to encourage their mobility in
Central Europe area, simplifying procedures for the release, having not counterfeiting marks and easy systems of
notification, that can be easily integrated in various operational contexts.
For more information, please visit: http://waste-management.centralivinglab.eu
For more information, please visit: http://ehealth.centralivinglab.eu
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CENTRALAB PROJECT GOALS