{"id":257,"date":"2008-04-01T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-04-01T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:12:14","slug":"corelabs-the-end-of-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/corelabs-the-end-of-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"CoreLabs, the end of the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With so many things happening recently I haven&#8217;t had a chance to tell you about a project that has just successfully finished its research programme.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ami-communities.net\/w\/images\/thumb\/f\/fe\/Logo.CORELABS.jpg\/200px-Logo.CORELABS.jpg\" alt=\"CoreLabs Logo\" \/><br \/>\nCoreLabs started in March 2006 with the stated mission to conduct as broad coordination as possible among European private, public and civic stake-holders and related projects working with systems\/environments (Living Labs) for open user-driven innovation of (primarily) new ICT based products and services.<br \/>\nCoreLabs mission also included the establishment a European Network of Living Labs and to propose related supportive policies and governance structures. The long term objective with the Living Lab network is to become a enabling key instrument in a new European innovation infrastructure.<br \/>\nSo did CoreLabs manage to do this?<br \/>\nThe projects achievements include all planned deliverables and targeted objectives (ref DoW) three of which can be downloaded below:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ami-communities.net\/pub\/bscw.cgi\/d308423\/D2.1a%20Best%20Practices.pdf\">D2.1a Best Practices<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ami-communities.net\/pub\/bscw.cgi\/d325463\/D3.2%20Technological%20%26%20Mass%20Customisation%20Aspects.pdf\">D3.2 Technological &#038; Mass Customisation Aspects<\/a>, which was edited by Claire and myself here at the TSSG.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ami-communities.net\/pub\/bscw.cgi\/d308077\/D5.1%20Methods%20%26%20Tools%20Inventory%20and%20Taxonomy.pdf\"><br \/>\nD5.1 Methods &#038; Tools Inventory and Taxonomy <\/a><br \/>\nThere were as quite a few additional deliverables and impacts achieved such as the ;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdt.ltu.se\/projectweb\/4421cddc626cb\/Events.html\">(Co-)organisation of more than thirty (30!) LL-events across Europe<\/a><br \/>\nThe election based formation of a Living Lab Portfolio Leadership Group, LLP-LG<br \/>\nCreation of the physical (Rubik\u2019s cube based) Living Lab Harmonization Cube, presented<br \/>\nat the e-Challenges conference 2007 in Den Hague.<br \/>\nA Living Lab Book; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvberlin.de\/data\/inhalt\/schumacher_niitamo.html\">European Living Labs. A new approach for human centric regional innovation<\/a>, in which Chapter 4 on the Technology Platform for the ENoLL is a contribution made by Claire &#038; myself also.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvberlin.de\/data\/inhalt\/schumacher_niitamo.html\"><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvberlin.de\/data\/grafik\/thumbs\/schumacher_niitamo.jpg\" alt=\"ENoLL Book\" \/> <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo mention but a few.<br \/>\nThe project had its final review on February 14th 2008 and the EC have kindly reported that that through these achievements the project has contributed to the understanding of the changing techno-socio-economic paradigm. The report does go on to state that this ongoing transformation requires research on how to optimally embed ICT in all segments of the European society (health, mobility, learning, government, leisure, etc.). \u2018Living Labs\u2019 appear as an optimal tool to realise this objective.<br \/>\nThere is tons still to do, but CoreLabs has clearly being a guiding light in this initaitve.<br \/>\nAnd so as the quote from W.Churchill goes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. (10 Nov 1942).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so many things happening recently I haven&#8217;t had a chance to tell you about a project that has just successfully finished its research programme. 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