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FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME 7 , THEME3 , OBJECTI VE 1 .6

I CTI NFORMATI ON AND COMMUNI CATI ONTECHN OLOGI ES

COORDI NATI NG ACTI ON

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D2.2 COMMUNI TY WORKSHOP

REPORT

This report presents the strategy and the rationale followed within the FIREBALLproject t o establish and run a European Joint Comm unity for Future I nternet andOpen Innovation. This document aims to report and describe also the eventsand initiatives within t he project t o involve and engage relevant key

organizations to accomplish the above task and objective.

ABOUT FI REBALL

The over-all objective of the FIREBALL project

is to coordinate and align methodologies andapproaches in the domains of Future Internet(FI) research and experimentation testbedsand user driven open innovation towards

successful innovation in smart cityenvironments.

In doing so, and in covering the whole FIresearch and innovation value chain driven by

smart cities being the users of the FI,FIREBALL aims to establish effective forms ofcooperation across the FI innovation valuechain, creating synergies and cooperationpractices among different research andinnovation communities related to the FI.

www.fireball4smartcities.eu

ATTRI BUTES OF THI S OBJECT

Project Type Coordinating Action

Project name FIREBALL

Project ID FP7-ICT-2009-5

Deliverable D2.2 (M24)

Deliverable name Community Workshop Report

Work package WP2, Task 2.2

Object type

Object title

Version 1.11 M24

Status FinalResponsible org. ESoCE Net

Creators Alessandro Braccini and RobertoSantoro, ESoCE Net

Contributors Adrian Slatcher, Hans Schaffers

Submitted 27.04.2012

Approved date

Approved by

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SECT. CONTENT PAGE

1 INTRODUCTION 31.1 OBJECTIVE AND CONTEXT OF THIS REPORT 31.2 OVERVIEW OF THIS REPORT 42 EUROPEAN JOINT COMMUNITY FOR FUTURE INTERNET AND OPEN INNOVATION 52.1 INTRODUCTION 52.2 FOUR WORKSHOPS 52.3 EUROPEAN JOINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PHASES 62.4 COMMUNITY BUILDING: FROM COMMON INTEREST IDENTIFICATION TO JOINT COMMUNITY

FOR FUTURE INTERNET,LIVING LABS AND SMART CITIES 82.5 FIREBALL JOINT COMMUNITY FOR FUTURE INTERNET,LIVING LABS AND SMART CITIES

RESULTS 103

EVENT AND

ACTIVITIES

PLANNING

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4 ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS REPORT CURRENT PERIOD (M19M24) 154.1 SUSTAINABLE SMART CITIES PROMOTED BY EUROCITIES25THJANUARY 2012:

PRIMARY WORKSHOP 154.2 ESOCEINDUSTRY FORUM 2011SECONDARY WORKSHOP 244.3 THE SOCIETAL VIEW ON SMART CITIESWORKSHOP AT THE FIA2012CONFERENCE

OTHER EVENTS 254.4 FIREBALLFINAL EVENTSMART CITIZENS IN SMART CITIES AND COMMUNITIES CO-

CREATING FUTURE INTERNET-ENABLED SERVICESMAY 2012 285 CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK AFTER END OF THE PROJECT 31


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1 I NTRODUCTI ON

1 .1 OBJECTI VE AND CONTEXT OF THI S REPORT

The aim of this report is to describe and explain the rationale, instruments andsteps towards establishing a European Joint Community for Future Internet andOpen Innovation, and to present the results achieved up to the end of theproject (April 2012 M24) as improvements of the current period described(M19-M24) and based on the three previous reports already issued (withdescription and activities until December 2010 -M6-, May 2011 -M12- andOctober 2011 -M18).

We envisaged the European Joint Community for Future Internet and OpenInnovation as a final result of bringing together, within the FIREBALL Project,three different constituencies. These three constituencies include those workingon User Driven and Open Innovation (Living Labs), on the Future Internet

Research and Experimentation, and on Smart Cities. The key ambition of such anEuropean Joint Community is to create and strengthen open, user driveninnovation ecosystems for Future Internet and Smart Cities in Living Labestablishing links among key people and stimulating activities in a virtual fertileenvironment. Establishment of the European Joint Community started from adialogue among these communities and passed by exploring the linkagesbetween them, as originally explained in the FIREBALL D2.1 Deliverable

Landscape and Roadmap of Future Internet and Smart Cities (Task 2.1).

The achievement of Fireball Task 2.2 passed then though the successfulidentification of relevant constituencies, organizations and experts that shapedthis European Joint Community, bringing these communities together andorganizing a dialogue which was fostered through the organization of a series of

events and workshops targeting key issues of high importance (for theconstituencies mentioned and providing a basis for future collaboration after theproject completion).

Besides presenting the underlying rationale, instruments and steps, this D2.2report proposes a series of four (main) FIREBALL workshops held over theproject duration period (May 2010 April 2012) as master-plan for the FIREBALLCommunity establishment. Additionally this report presents the events alreadyorganized within the Fireball project, in particular during the current M19-M24period. This report is a concluding report due for M24 considering all theintermediate issues until April 2012 both at event (attendance, presentationsand discussions, impact and achievements) and at Community Activitiesachievements.

For information about events and Community establishment for the previousperiod than the one covered by this document, you can refer to the similarreports (issued at M6, M12 and M18) included in the references. Description ofthe achievements of the previous period as well as a summary of what wasobtained with the original plan for the FIREBALL Community establishment isalso included in the section 2 of this document.

The establishment of the Community has successfully been achieved through theprocess and the rationale anticipated in this paragraph and in this report (overthe full four periods). The Community has not been established in a conventionalform in a way that the specificity of the task and the starting base of threealready existing and active Communities could not require a conventionalapproach.


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The followed path of event organization has allowed the establishment of directand effective links among people within the target base Communities and tostrengthen the existing relationships among them. The result of this approachwas then instead of setting up another (new) Community to stimulate and create

new knowledge (jointly), stimulate the organization of events (social) and finallyto encourage business opportunities (and the launch of new projects).1 A fulldescription of joint initiatives during and for the establishment of the FIREBALLCommunity is included in ph. 2.5 Fireball Joint Community for Future Internet,Living Labs and Smart Cities Results in this Report.

1 .2 OVERVI EW OF THI S REPORT

In section 2 we provide an overall explanation of the rationale, the logic and thestrategy followed to establish the European Joint Community for Future Internetand Open Innovation. It includes also a summary of the previous steps includedin the intermediate versions of this report.

Section 3 reports the description and the over-all planning of the initiatives and

the events for the overall project duration in order to achieve the establishmentof such Community. A final section with the achievements for the establishmentof the Community is included.

Section 4 includes a detailed description of the events and the initiativesperformed within the project from November 2011 to April 2012.

Finally, section 5 presents conclusions and outlook to final phase of work.

1 See Professional Virtual Communities PVC Reference Framework R. Santoro, A.

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2 EUROPEAN JOI N T COMMUNI TY FOR FUTURE I NTERNET AN D OPEN

I NNOVATI ON

2 .1 I NTRODUCTI ON

As described in the first paragraph of this document, establishing a JointCommunity for Future Internet and Open Innovation (pursued in the formexplained in this final report) was important milestone within the FIREBALLproject, in order to bring together the three components of Living Lab, SmartCities and Future Internet Communities.

During its establishment phase this European Joint Community was consideredas a virtual concept. Efforts and works were put on activities aimed atstrengthening the collaboration among existing communities such as FIA (FutureInternet Assembly), ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) and Eurocities(representing the interests of Smart Cities). The successive phase to move theEuropean Joint Community as an entity was also considered. The decision toeventually establish a European Joint Community as a separate entity has to betaken collectively by the three constituencies involved ater the end of the project(M24 April 2012).

This Community created was though to be able to fulfil a key role in creatingsynergies, based on the resources and methodologies brought together by theconstituencies involved, to realize the goal of Future Internet for Smart Citiesthrough creating user driven open innovation ecosystems.

The Community was establish starting from initial relations with keyorganizations or communities such as FIA, Eurocities, ENoLL, and also dedicatedprofessional networks such as pre-commercial procurement specialists, business

innovators and SME-related organisations.As already anticipated in the document introduction this objective has beenachieved stimulating links and in the specific by collective meetings:

- participation in FIA meetings and events

- participation of Living Lab representatives to Eurocities events

- launch of Joint initiatives.

2 .2 FOUR W ORKSHOPS

The support to this task has been planned based on the organization of (at least)

four international workshops back-to-back to other events - to identify anddiscuss opportunities for collaboration aiming to strengthen innovationecosystems for Future Internet and Smart Cities. Important topics in thediscussions included open innovation approaches, living labs methods,experimental Future Internet approaches, Smart City strategies, andopportunities for synergy and collaboration. The scope of these four workshops(defined in Chapter 3 of this document Events and Activities Planning) wasboth part of the project dissemination activity and direct instrument for theEuropean Joint Community establishment task 2.2 objectives.

These four workshops acted as main structure around activities and involvementactions performed for the Joint Community establishment. This logical structurewas exploited to identify also additional events and initiatives whose organization

was conducted in parallel with the main four workshops. These additionalinitiatives were hereafter identified as Other Events.


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Last but not least the identification of these logical phases (on which theestablishment of the Future Internet, Smart Cities and Living Lab communitylinks were developed) was also the main structure around which other activitiescould foster and stimulate collaboration and interconnections among the three

domains in a flexible way. This approach was useful also not to focusing andfixing rigidly on the topics originally identified (at the beginning of the project)merging the need of working in parallel on different tracks such as the FutureInternet and Smart Cities landscape, the Common Assets sharing, communitycollaboration models, Smart Cities roadmap within the context of Future InternetSupport Actions etc.

2 .3 EUROPEAN JO I N T COMMUNI TY DEVELOPMENT PHASES

The four international Workshops followed a specific logic of initiating, buildingand extending the Joint Community. The methodology on which the organisationof the workshops was thus built is described by the following phases:

1. Awareness and engagement building: common interest

identification, initial exchanges and discussions;2. Consensus Building on the Future Internet and Smart Cities

landscape, based on joint vision building (see D2.1 Landscape andRoadmap);

3. Collaboration Models based on Sharing Commons (commons areunderstood as resources that can be shared among the Community,including testing and experimenting facilities, methodologies, knowhow, user groups);

4. Initiatives and Follow up (Collaborative initiatives, common projects,Initiatives towards Future Internet and Smart Cities).

This scheme was also interpreted in a flexible manner, in order to exploit in a

pragmatic way the opportunities that were emerging from the intensifiedexchanges with the FIA community (FIRE projects and support actions, FISARoadmapping), Eurocities, and ENoLL that has facilitate the launch of jointinitiatives with the establishment of the virtual Community as already explained.

The f i r s t phase was dedicated to understand and identify common interestsfrom the three communities (Living Labs, Smart Cities and Future Internet) inorder to bring these three constituents together and find commonunderstanding, language and needs. This first phase worked in parallel with theLandscape and Roadmap development task whose main elements were definedin the task 2.1 (D2.1).

The second phase was dedicated to agree on a common vision identified by the

task 2.1 (Landscape and Roadmap). This landscape represents the differentapproaches and linkage of the three communities and the attempt to build adialogue and, of course, a common language to support new ways ofcollaboration. This common language was studied and developed by identifyingsynergies and complementarities in the different technical and methodologicalapproaches, pursuing the evolution towards integrated and holistic strategiesand approaches for cities innovation (that are appropriate to empower SmartCities based on Future Internet services). The landscape, that has been definedin task 2.1 and that is evolving during the project execution, covers variousaspects including actor networks, methodologies and approaches, and currentpractices and future visions.

This phase has worked in parallel with the further elaboration of the landscape

itself whose development is not only a precondition but also an additionalinstrument to identify and shape possible ways of cooperation between the threecommunities.


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The th i r d ph ase focused on collaboration models and has been dedicated to thesharing of common resources from the three constituencies that can be used for

joint and integrated projects. An example is the application of Living Labsmethodology in Future Internet experimentation. Such common assets include

methodologies, experimental facilities, user communities and other resources.This phase builds upon the common vision and language as defined in theprevious steps as precondition. This phase has defined and has elaboratedmechanisms (partnerships, IPR and other) allowing the creation of synergies andthe engagement of constituencies benefiting from these synergies. Suchsynergies include common Future Internet and Smart Cities projects across theconstituencies. This phase worked in parallel with the preparation and theidentification of common collaborative strategies among the communities andwithin the smart cities network. An example is the development of smart citiesroadmaps (WP3).

The fou r th and f i na l phase of this process concerns the final establishment ofthe Joint European Community for Future Internet and Open Innovation able to

put in place initiatives and common projects with the logic, the vision and thelanguage defined in the previous phases. This phase can finally work in parallelwith the elaboration of the collaborative strategies, able to be translated intonew additional initiatives for the Community potential activity.

Figure 1 below represents the already described and followed four stepapproach:

Four steps Community Establishment schema

Fig. 1 : Four s tep appr oach to FI REBALL Com m uni t y bu i ld in g

The four described phases are linked to four primary workshops as well as toother, secondary, events per the following tentative match:

Aw areness and

Engagement

Consensus

Bu i ld ing on

Co l labora t ionMode ls

N e w I n i t i a t i v e s

and Fo l l ow Up

C o m m u n i t y

Es tab l i shmen t

I n i t i a t i v e

I n i t i a t i v e

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Phase P r imary w orkshop even ts Secondary even ts

1 Connected Smart Cities, 18thNovember 2010, Helsinki

2 FIREBALL-FIRE workshop at FIAGhent, December 16th 2010

Living labs and Smart Citiesworkshop, Ghent, December 14th2010

FISA Roadmapping workshop,Brussels, 31st March 2011

3 FIREBALL-FIRE workshop at FIABudapest, May 2011

FIREBALL workshop at ICE 2011Conference, June 2011, Aachen

FIREBALL workshop at eChallenges,Florence, October 2011

Open Days, 10-13 October 2011

Connected Smart Cities workshop,August 2011

Living Labs and Smart Cities. PICNIC

2011, Amsterdam, August 20114 Sustainable Smart Cities. Event

organized by Eurocities and theFIREBALL project, 25th January 2012

ESoCE Net Forum, December 2011

Sustainable Smart Cities PromotedBy Eurocities 25th January 2012

Smart Citizens in Smart Cities andCommunities Co-Creating FutureInternet-Enabled Services, 22 May2012

Table 1 : FIREBALL Com m uni t y Bu i ld ing event s

2 .4 COMMUNI TY BUILDI NG: FROM COMMON I NTEREST I DENTIFI CATI ON TO

JOI NT COMMUNI TY FOR FUTURE I NTERNET, L I V I N G LABS AND SMARTCI T I E S

This paragraph reports a summary of the steps followed for the establishment ofthe joint Community between Future Internet, Living Labs and Smart Cities.

A first important step, originating the path for such community establishmentwas the understanding and the identification of common interests and on thefoundation concepts behind the three communities (this was major part of thefirst two period of the project in investigating common and synergies andfostering awareness M1 M12).

Main foundation elements emerged for the three communities members where:

- Future Internet: new set of technologies that, integrated together within

a specific platform, are able to support a wide range of networkedapplications. These technologies are partly based on the IoT paradigmthat foresees a networked interconnection of everyday objects,sufficiently intelligent for communicating among them and with humansover the Internet;

- Smart Cities: rich environments characterized by advanced services andinfrastructures (especially ultra fast wireless or wired connection) with ahigh quality and availability of social capital (knowledge, people, socialinfrastructure, traditions). They are able to provide benefits and highquality of life to citizens with a strong balance between competitivenessand sustainability. Believe a city to be smart when investments in humanand social capital and traditional (transport) and modern (ICT)communications infrastructure fuel sustainable economic growth and ahigh quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, throughparticipatory governance (A. Caragliu, C. del Bo, P. Nijkamp).


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- Living Labs: user driven and open innovation ecosystems able to involvepeople or entire communities in the innovation process, starting from thevery early phase until the prototype testing phase and the final product.

From the foundation concepts of the four communities the synergies and contact

points of them was investigated and brought up:- Future Internet and Smart Cities share the platform element as

common tool. This platform is necessary to develop applications andmanage services for citizens based on the Future Internet technologiesand able to provide that predictable models based on a wide set of datacollection. They relations are much more based on Resource Aspects.

- Future Internet and Living Lab have the openness of the solution asmutual value. This element represents the availability and the opennessof the technology for the user involvement both in the implementationand the utilization phase. They relations are much more based on

Business Aspects.

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Smart Cities and Living Lab have finally the set of services and theidentification of the needs as mutual values. These needs allow LivingLabs (as rich environments) to identify services and promote a highquality of live to citizens. They relations are much more based on SocialAspect.

An additional element that emerged after the investigation of synergies andcommon interlinks between the three communities (that was underlined alsoamong the final results on this task) was the openness: the openness oftechnologies, available data, models of cultural rich city environments (replicablefrom city to city), test environments are among the common elements the threecommunities share together.

The openness is linked also to the sustainability concept that is able to bring intoreality and maintain the three communities and is considered a concrete optionfor the future evolution of the European society based on technology.

The establishment of such joint virtual community continued then on a step-by-step approach based on the described Master Plan.

The activities were then directed in the involvement of targeted roles (M6 M12):

Researchers and research organizations

Living Labs

Universities

Public Stakeholders and government representatives

Industry players in the Future Internet and ICT domains

Other relevant stakeholders involved in the Smart City domain and in thepractical and theoretical development of such environments.

From this activity also the identification of main functions in support of theestablishment process was performed. The European Joint Community wasstimulated to:

involve other organizations and their members in order to grow indimension;

take part to workshop and events where its members met do discuss onmutual cooperation;


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Act as referring point within the Future Internet and Smart City domainsand involving Living Lab Network in this process;

Cooperate with other networks (e.g. ENoLL, FIRE, Future Internet PPP)and other key organizations (such as FIA, EIT, Eurocities, business

associations).

Some tools and instruments were then identified to allow, stimulate and facilitatecooperation and interaction among the Future Internet, Smart Cities and LivingLab domains (M12 M18).

Among these tools and within the investigation on large number of organizationsor cities or testbeds, more or less independent, in the different communities andthe mechanisms and processes to stimulate and foster collaboration and Access,Sharing And Reuse Of Common Assets catalogue was proposed and set upwithin Ami@Work online Website.

A page on the Ami@Work online Community was created for FIREBALL and is

accessible at the following address:www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/Fireball4smartcities

A first example of catalogue of Assets the Community organizations can shareand make available under specific Access Mechanisms and Conditions wascreated reporting: Asset type, Ownership, IPR, Access Conditions andAccess Mechanisms.1

2 .5 FI REBALL JO I N T COMMUNI TY FOR FUTURE I NTERNET, L I V I N G LABS ANDSMART CI T I E S RESULTS

As results of the above described activities and intermediate achievements the

establishment of such joint Community was successfully obtained.

The Community, after having concentrated its attention on Future Internet andtest bed technologies, has attracted the interest of Eurocities with the final mainevent (How to become, sustain and evolve as a Smart city - Eurocities,Brussels, Belgium, 26 January 2012) that resulted in an important success (asmarked by feedback from EuroCities and detailed in chapter 4 in this documentfor event report). The reinforcement of this additional link brought the final stoneto the establishment of FIREBALL Living Lab, Smart Cities and Future InternetJoint Community.

As already explained in the introduction of this document FIREBALL T2.2 was notconducted in to establish a new FIREBALL Community but in creating

collaboration links. The Community was then established in the form of linksamong people and relations between Cities, Future Internet and Living Labs. Thisapproach was in line with the objective of flexibility and efficiency but alsoeffectiveness of starting from existing and well structured Communities andbuilding up concrete initiatives, joint proposals and event organizations.

The approach brought then the creation and reinforcement of direct and effectivelinks and relationships among people within the target base Communities andthe stimulation of new Knowledge, the organizations of events and commoninitiatives and finally the support for new business opportunities and newprojects.

Example of results coming the established collaborations and links are:

1www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/Fireball4smartcities/ServicesCatalogueSee also FIREBALL D1.3 - Operational Infrastructure of IPR Arrangements for access,

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- Knowledge:

o White paper on User involvement for FIRE

o joint paper with the FIRE-initiatives of Smart Santander and TEFISA Framework Integrating Living Labs with Future Internet

Experimental Platforms for the Co-creation of Services withinSmart Cities (ICE 2011 Aachen edition)

o Contributing to a chapter on Smart Cities and Future Internet inthe FIA 2011 book, published in Spring 2011, see [7]. Fireball isco-author with the chapter "Smart Cities and the Future Internet:Towards Cooperation Frameworks for Open Innovation", This bookis based on the research that is carried out within the FutureInternet Assembly (FIA). FIA brings together over 150 researchprojects that are part of the FP7 Challenge 1.

o Several Smart Cities stories planned for Journal of the KnowledgeEconomy, Special Issue on SMART CITIES AND THE FUTURE

INTERNET IN EUROPE.- Events and Initiatives (Social)

o Organising a Living Labs day during the Future Internet Week,Ghent, December 2010.

o EIT ICTLabs, thematic area Digital Cities creating spearheadproject within area of Digital Cities.

o FI-PPP initiative and project FI-Ware as Living Labs interface in theScientific Advisory Board.

o CIP Save Energy (Alfamicro)

o ICE Conference, Aachen (June 2011)

o

Connected smart Cities workshop, Helsinki (Aug 2011)

o PicNic, Urban Futures, Amsterdam (Sep 2011)

o Smart Cities of the Future, Brussels (Oct 2011)

o Future Internet Week and FIA-session, Poznan (Oct 2011)

o Smart Cities & Future Internet, Brussels (Jan 2012)

o User-driven Open Innovation Ecosystems go really localacrossborders, Brussels (May 2012)

o Participation in ICT 2010 to contribute to joint sessions with theFIA and Living Labs communities.

o Participation in the FISA (Future Internet Support Actions) Road

mapping working group.o Organising a joint workshop on Future Internet and Smart Cities

during the Future Internet week, Ghent, December 2010.

o FIA Budapest (May 2011)

o Regional Innovation through the Future Internet Public PrivatePartnership (FI PPP), (Oct, 2011)

o FIA Aalborg, (May 2012)

- Project initiatives, joint opportunities:

o Eurocities, as a platform for Smart Cities innovation,www.eurocities.eu, more precisely the Knowledge Society Forum

(KSF)o projects within the CIP ICT-PSP Smart Cities Portfolio


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Peripheria-(Alfamicro) - Networked Smart Peripheral Citiesfor Sustainable Lifestyles http://peripheria.eu

EPIC-(IBBT) EU Platform for Intelligent Cities -http://www.epic-cities.eu/

Open cities-(ESADE) - Open Innovation for Future InternetServices in Smart Cities - http://www.opencities.net/

SMARTIP - (Manchester) - Smart Metropolitan AreasRealised Through Innovation & People -http://www.manchesterdda.com/smartip/

Life 2.0-(Aalborg Univ) - Geographical Positioning Servicesto Support Independent Living and Social Interaction ofElderly People http://www.life2project.eu/

PEOPLE- (Anova) - Pilot Smart Urban EcosystemsLeveraging Open Innovation for Promoting and Enabling E-services - http://www.people-project.eu/portal/

Smart Islands (Epsilon) - Smart webservices forMediterranean Islands - http://www.smart-islands.eu/

CITADEL- on the move high speed mobile appshttp://www.corve.be/docs/english/Citadel_on_the_Move_Brochure.pdf

City SDK- Smart City Service Developer Kit open sourceSmart City apps ecosystemhttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/livinglabs/docs/workshop_2012-01-24/factsheets/citysdk_fact_sheet_2011-09-12.pdf

Commons 4 Europe - Code Commons collaborative web +

Bottom-Up-Broadband Commonshttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/livinglabs/docs/workshop_2012-01-24/factsheets/Commons4Europe-Fact%20Sheet-October2011.pdf

iCity - Linked Open Apps Ecosystem to open up Innovationin Smart Citieshttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/livinglabs/docs/workshop_2012-01-24/factsheets/iCity_factsheet_28.10.11.pdf

i-SCOPE - Interoperable Smart City Services through an

Open Platform for Urban Ecosystemshttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/apps/projects/factsheet/index.cfm?project_ref=297284

LiveCity - Live Video-to-Video supporting Interactive CityInfrastructure http://www.livecity-psp.eu/

o Other projects

ODYSSEUS (ESoCE-Net) Energy management inneighbourhoods like urban areas to further optimize energyconsumption and cost by moving to innovative and smarterdynamic holistic energy management systems and allowingadvanced control in neighbourhoods enabled by advancesin ICT. (in proposal phase)


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3D Live (Collaborative Engineering and EsoCE Net withthe participation of EXPERIMEADIA Fire facility, Oulu SmartCity and LLABS in Spain and France) - develop andexperiment a User Driven Mixed Reality and Immersive

(Twilight) platform connected to EXPERIMEDIA facilities inorder to investigate the Future Internet (FI) broadbandcapacity to support Real-Time immersive situations as wellas evaluating both the Quality of Experience (QoE) andQuality of Services. The main objective consists to explore3D/Media technologies and IoT in real and virtualenvironments in order to sense and experiment livesituations.

In structural terms the FIREBALL Community it is the new connected smart citiesgroup within Eurocities which takes over the fireball knowledge base andcontinues to stimulate the interaction among the 3 communities of Living Labs,Future Internet and Smart Cities.


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3 EVENT AN D ACTIV I T IES PLANNI NG

According to the objective of the Task 2.2 and in line with the activities and the

rational explained in paragraph 2, WP2 has outlined a series of events to involvekey organizations and the aggregation of the Community in Future Internet andOpen Innovation. This series of event was followed during the course of theproject as master plan for Future Internet, Smart Cities and Living Lab jointcommunity establishment.

The table below reports the planning schedule. The structure was built aroundthe four pilot workshops and was updated and aligned during the project extent.The four pilot workshops were included in the first row and identified with

Primary Event diction.

Act i v i t i es M1 M6 M7 M12 M13 M18 M19 M24

Primaryevents

FIA Ghent,December 16th2010: Smart Citiesand Future InternetExperimentation

May 2011: FIABudapest

June 2011: ICEAachen

Sustainable SmartCities. Eventorganized byEurocities and theFIREBALL project,25th January 2012

SecondaryEvents

November 18th2010 (Helsinki):Conference onConnected SmartCities towardsdigital, sustainableand opencommunities

December 14th,2010: Living labsand Smart Cities.Future InternetWeek, Ghent

FISA Roadmappingworkshop,Brussels, 31stMarch 2011

FIREBALLworkshop ateChallenges,Florence, October2011

Open Days, 10-13October 2011

Connected SmartCities workshop,August 2011

Living Labs andSmart Cities.PICNIC 2011,Amsterdam,August 2011

December 2011:ESoCE IndustryForum Rome

The Societal Viewon Smart Cities -FIA 2012Conference,Aalborg, 10-11 May2012

Smart Citizens inSmart Cities andCommunities Co-Creating FutureInternet-EnabledServices 22 May2012

Table 2 : FIREBALL Com m uni t y Bu i ld ing event s


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4 ACTI VI TI ES AND EVENTS REPORT CURRENT PERI OD ( M 1 9 M 2 4 )

According to the rationale described in this document, this paragraph reports the

description and the activities within the task 2.2 framework.

This section reviews all the activities performed during the project. In thisdocument revision an update of the Communities activities up to M24 (sinceOctober 2011) is reported illustrating the contribution to the overall of outcomeof the European Joint Community for Future Internet and Open InnovationEstablishment and run.

4 .1 SUSTAI NABLE SMART CI TI ES PROMOTED BY EUROCI TI ES 2 5 TH JANUARY 2 0 1 2 : PRI MARY W ORKSHOP

EUROCITIES is the network of major European cities (foundedin 1986 by the mayors of six large cities: Barcelona,

Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan and Rotterdam) andbringing together the local governments of more than 140 largecities in over 30 European countries.

Through six thematic forums, a wide range of working groups, projects, activitiesand events, it offers to its members a platform for sharing knowledge andexchanging ideas.

The organization of this event was initiated, promoted and supported by theFIREBALL Project.

4.1 .1 Session backg round

Susta inab le Sm ar t Ci t ies

The concept of smart cities has attracted considerable attention in the contextof urban development policies for creating more inclusive, sustainable andcompetitive cities. At the same time the Internet as an enabler of city services isbecoming more and more important for urban development while cities areincreasingly assuming a critical role as drivers of innovation in such areas ashealth, inclusion, environment and business as more people and devices will beconnected to the Future Internet than today. Cities and spaces will be connectedand smarter, exploiting the Future Internet to organise, optimise, and deliver onpromises to citizens, both as creative professionals and as prosumers. At thesame time the Future Internet will be, even more than now, a criticalinfrastructure for the public sector, citizens and business and move from beingthe Internet of technology into the Internet of content, things and people. Inorder to tackle the real problems of cities new thinking is needed, which is

capable of grasping the big picture, including the interrelationships among all thefactors underlying them. Achieving systemic and sustainable innovation for thefuture society and to make future cities a good place to live and work requiresmuch broader, more collaborative and innovative approaches.

4.1 .2 Meet ing Ob jec t i ve , Organ iza t i on and Execu t ion

In the workshop invited speakers from EUROCITIES, FIRE (Future InternetResearch & Experimentation), the Smart City Portfolio CIP projects and ENoLL(European Network of Living Labs) presented their views and results to open upthe discussion on shaping the future Smart Cities agenda, starting from theneeds of the cities, their citizens and partner organisations. In addition theworkshop created new linkages and enhance cooperation between different

constituencies interested in Smart City development in order to operationalisepolicies for future problem solving and strategic actions.

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- discuss the main issues that are being addressed by cities that want tobecome smarter, including which solutions cities are trying to develop toaddress the real problems and to demonstrate some initial examples ofFuture Internet in the context of Smart Cities needs and demands;

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shape the agenda of issues regarding Smart Cities and Future Internet byopening this up for wider engagement in the creation of a Smart Cityroadmap;

- discuss visions and perspectives in the context of Smart Cities of the futureand how these might best be put into practice;

- develop a knowledge exchange between cities, Living Labs and the FIREresearch community about developments to date and future plans for newuse cases, test beds and local initiatives.

4.1 .3 P r o g r a m m e

Session 1

09.00 10.30

Modera to r:

Michael Nilsson,Coordinator ofFIREBALL,

Open ing sess ion : Tow ards Sm ar t e r Ci t ies

Introduction by invited speakers from the EuropeanCommission, Eurocities, CIP ICT-PSP portfolio, Fireballand guests

- Welcome and agenda by Michael Nilsson,Coordinator of FIREBALL,

- Horizon 2020 & EC Innovation policy and SmartCities EIPby Director Mario Campolargo, EuropeanCommission, Directorate F: Emerging Technologiesand Infrastructures. DG INFSO.

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The importance of a Smart Cities agenda by MsIngrid Goetzl, Eurocities , Chair of KnowledgeSociety Forum, Head of International ICT Affairs,City of Vienna

- The Senseable City part 1 by Director CarloRatti, MIT , (invited presentation)

- The Smart City working group by Dave Carter,Manchester and Chair CIP portfolio

Roundtable d iscuss ion 30 m inu tes

Session 2

10.30 11.30

Modera to r:

Dave Carter,

Smart City CIP portfoliochair

Chal lenges fo r c i t ies in becoming smar te r :cur ren t p r act ice , i ssues, so lu t ions

This session introduces the current issues, problemsand challenges which cities are addressing in

becoming smarter cities, told by the citiesthemselves, as a starting point for improvedknowledge sharing:

- MANCHESTER - Dave Carter ( Head of ManchesterDigital Development Agency & chair of SmartCities Portfolio Working Group)

- AMSTERDAM Audrie van Veen (AmsterdamInnovation Motor)


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- LISBON - Joana Fernandes (Project Coordinator,Lisbon E-Nova)

- HELSINKI - Jarmo Eskelinen (CEO, Forum Virium,Helsinki)

- BARCELONA - Julia Lopez Ventura (ProjectManager & Technician, International Cooperationat Barcelona City Council)

11.30 12.00 Cof fee b reak and exh ib i t i on

Session 3

12.00 13.15

Modera to r:

Pekka Sauri,

Deputy Mayor ofHelsinki city

Oppor tu n i t i es fo r c rea t i ng smar t e r c i t i es

This session brings a spectrum of topics to theforegrounds which are currently being worked on invarious EU projects. Special emphasis on results fromthe FIREBALL project. The FIRE relevance for cities.

The Smart Cities CIP ICT-PSP projects will alsoaddress their relevance for cities.

Topics includes:

- Technologies for smarter cities.

- Promises of the Future Internet and how to realizethem in cities

- Future Internet empowered Innovation culture ofthe city

Speakers , (invited presentations , Maximum: 10minutes each)

- The Senseable City part 2 Director Carlo Ratti,MIT

- Future Internet and Smart Cities: Newapproaches to Innovation. Results of FIREBALL Hans Schaffers FIREBALL

- Sensor Technologies for Smart City services Jose Munoz The Smart Santander project

- Community Networks Neutrality or Hostage? Malcolm Matson, The CONFINE project

- PERIPHERI A Challenge: social innovation for

sustainable lifestyles- Alvaro Oliveira, ENoLLpresident and the Peripheria project

- Digital life 2.0 - Albena Mihovska, Life 2.0project

- Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI PPP)for Smart Cities - Ana Garcia the Concord projectand ENoLL

- European Platform for Intelligent Cities- WimVanobberghen IBBT and the EPIC project

13.15 14.15 Lunch and exh ib i t i on

Session 4

14.15 16.15

Tow ards smar te r c i t ies : po l icies, approaches,

ac t i ons

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M o de r ato r / f a ci l it a t o r :

Dave Carter,

Smart City CIP portfoliochair

are experiencing with a forward looking view. Whatare the innovation roadmaps of cities? What are theactions, initiatives to be taken in next few years?How could policies support such roadmaps, at EU,

national, regional and urban level? This session willsee participants split into multi-disciplinary groups todiscuss:

- Roadmaps towards smarter cities: interactivesession

- Horizontal issues in the roadmaps: pilots forcreating network effects, innovation culture,infrastructure, bottom-up empowerment etc.

- Policies to stimulate the implementation of cityroadmaps, at urban, regional, national and EUlevel

16.15 17.00

M o de r ato r / f a ci l it a t o r :

Roberto Santoro,

FIREBALL

Pane l - Conclus ions and ou t lookPanel of people from the previous sessions,representing the Commission, Eurocities, Fire, andLiving Labs.

The questions will be answered by the panelists andby the participants. Discussion on:

- Understanding: The Smartness in Smart Cities:what progress have we made today inunderstanding the substantial elementscharacterizing city`s programs that have decided

to become smarter.- Experiencing: Are there Initial cities

experimentation that show the way (referencepractice)? Innovation Culture, FI Infrastructure,the Innovation process

- Building a Smarter Future: Strengtheninginterlinks among Cities, Future Internet and LivingLab Communities. Creating joint working groupson critical horizontal issues. Suggested groupsform the workshop?

4.1 .4 Main d iscuss ions

Session 1 : Tow ards Smar t e r Ci t ies

Mario Campolargo (Director, European Commission. DG INFSO/F, EmergingTechnologies and Infrastructures) opened the one-day conference and was verypleased to see the representatives of the three different communities, the(smart) cities, the living labs and the community of the future internet, namelythe experts of making cities smarter.

Cities as the platforms to integrate and test new concepts

Recently the Commission (Barroso II) launched the EU2020-strategy aiming tosmart, sustainable and inclusive growth for Europe, where cities play a crucialrole as they are responsible for most of the CO2 emission, energy consumption

etc. but at the same time with the large amount of people and resources theybecome a very important platform and a vehicle for important policy measures inorder to obtain the objectives of the EU2020.


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Citizenship engagement

Citizens also represent a very powerful factor themselves. In order to cities tobecome smarter and learn by its citizens that are knowledgeable and reflectiveabout the society, engage and participate and more importantly exploit the

wealth of infrastructures and data made available by often universities andresearch centers. In addition, when talking about data, it should be kept in mindthat it does not only include sensors and internet of things and the technologyside but also social networks, allowing these new mash up applications to thrive.

Campolargo reminded relating to open data, the digital and knowledge economybrings about transformative role to the citizens. Indeed in the digital economy asthe process of wealth and value creation transforming the power relations, asthese are no longer reserved for large public nor private organisations.

Future Internet for Smart Cities

European Commission long-term strategy for innovation in ICT manifests inseveral different initiatives that are relevant to the Smart Cities agenda such as

the Future Internet Research & Experimentation (FIRE) and other initiatives onFI research under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). The aim has also beento bring about more take up of innovation instead of the demonstration andexperimentation activities, reflecting clearly in the initiatives funded under theCompetitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and more recentlythe Future Internet Public Private Partnership.

The FI PPP starts in the early identification of the most promising use case areasand moving over to promote the testbeds. The coordination of the whole FI PPPprogramme is done by the project CONCORD, a project comprising of relevantactors in the community of Living Lab, assuring the central component in thisexercise, the encouragement and involvement of the user communities aroundthe different use cases to develop applications that are of high impact for

society.Further more, the Commission has the intention to continue to support theconvergence of the technical dimension of the FIRE-initiative (technical facilities)and the Living Labs methodologies of real-life environments where best practicesof open innovation are applied.

2014-2020 Financial Framework and opportunities for funding for Smart Cities

Campolargo presented the financial framework put forward by the EC in June2011, where funds from Cohesion policy (instruments for smart specialization),Connecting Europe facility and Research and Innovation will all play a crucialrole. Cohesion funds in the next framework will pay a particular emphasis onamong other things in research and innovation and ICT-technology.

The Connecting Europe facility will focus on the completion of three objectives 1)transport core network, 2) energy priority corridors 3) key digital infrastructureto combine the market place instruments and EU direct support to optimizeimpact.

From the point of the view of the Commission, most crucial in the upcomingfunding period is to better understand the needs of the regional and local actors,piloting realistic innovative solutions to address the grand challenges with acomprehensive and integrate approach and to ensure that these solutions aretaken up by the citizens themselves. Thus, the smart cities are the idealframework to put Future Internet technologies and advancements in to a contextand to further closely tie together research and innovation policies with regionaldeployment.

Session 2 : Cha l lenges fo r c i t ies in becoming smar te r : cur ren t p ract ice ,issues, so lu t ion s


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Dave Carter (Head of MDDA, Manchester City Council & Chair of Smart CitiesPortfolio Working Group) opened the session. 5 core cities, Manchester, Lisbon,Amsterdam, Barcelona and Helsinki had been asked to provide 5 slides on theirchallenges and achievements and next steps.

Three year ago the cities had been brought together, with the future internetand living labs communities to come together as the FIREBALL project. The aimwas to make cities more aware of the potential around the future internetagenda, and to make researchers and academics more aware of the citiesthemselves, and the nature of their issues and problems. These connectionshave acted as a catalyst for engagement, awareness and real delivery across anumber of European smart cities.

Manchester is the largest city in the North of England, with 500k population but2.5m in the Greater Manchester region. However with no regional government,this metropolis is covered by 10 autonomous councils.

Building on the citys long history of social and community engagementManchester has aimed to involve citizens in the development of smart cityprojects. It was the first place in the UK to join the Living Lab movement and ithave been working for 25 years to convince politicians and urban planners thatdigital is the new real estate of the city and that digital and creative were keyto regenerating urban economies. Despite our strengths in creative industrieswere often behind other countries in terms of infrastructure. Yet Manchestercontinues to be 2nd biggest digital sector in the UK after London, and evenstronger in terms of bottom-up social innovation, as you might expect from thehome of the Co-operative movement.

In order to maintain its key to create digital infrastructure and in the UKincumbent Telcos have proved very slow to this. To mitigate this it has beeninvolved in various awareness raising and advocacy at a national level, but withlocal lead aiming for infinite bandwidth/zero latency.

The risk adverse nature of city administrators and internal ICT/comms meansthere remains a need to educate. Clearly, the business models around investingin digital infrastructure are proving inadequate to the challenges. In difficultfinancial times, new business models need to help enable digital infrastructure,green ICT and digital inclusion, as these are all long term investments in the

smart city and the smart citizen.

Audrie van Veen (Amsterdam Innovation Motor AIM-) refers to the entiremetropolitan area. The starting point for the smart city initiative in the city istechnology.

Until a few years ago, urban planning was far more important, but now itsdefinitely digital and green visions and these visions for developing the city also

need to include the 3rd sector and to be inclusive and of value to all residents.

In 2012 Amsterdam has a large amount of fibre to the home.

Within the city there have been small scale pilots around smart gridtechnologies and connectivity provided to public buildings. In terms of reducingcarbon the important thing is to involve citizens and get them to change theirattitudes.

An example would be Climate Street where a neighbourhood is made greenerthrough an initiative started by the shops in a particular street. 140 shopsagreed to become more sustainable with 46 ambassadors involved to showcasebetter ways of being green. Things such as better waste collection, changes topublic lighting, smart meters and smart plugs were initiated. As an example one

record shop did a test with the public about which type of lighting was best forlooking at CDs.


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A 2nd example was a smart working centre, based on examples elsewhere in theworld working with CISCO. The initial centre was the wrong business model andan evaluation was used to do it better the next time. The location of the buildingwas wrong for the businesses in it, being next to a main road and outside of the

city. Close connectivity to the city centre was important. There are now 100locations in the Netherlands which have been a commercial success with thismodel, which has also worked in South Korea, and is now happening in Franceand Belgium.

Co-developed smart meters - working with a local housing association (the WestOrange project) were installed in a typical Amsterdam quarter. Richer peoplewere enthusiastic but poorer people were less so. The user friendliness of themeter system needs then to improve.

By getting the meters into schools there was far more success, withschoolchildren encouraging their parents. The social component of all theseprojects is therefore vital.

Amsterdam also has a health lab working with 20 or so elderly people providing sensors (non-invasive in their testing) in the rooms where they are.

Amsterdam perceives more collaboration going forward.

Jarmo Eskelinen(CEO, Forum Virium).

In Helsinki the key thing is to come up with better solutions for urban living. Inorder to do this they have Two baskets in one, the infrastructure, and in thesecond, the services using the infrastructure.

Helsinki has got good coverage for green energy and broadband. The hard sideis in place but more work needs to be done on the transformation side supporting people through adoption of new services. The key thing here is tohave an open approach for service creation.

A city whether its buildings, logistics, or people coming and going is neverfixed, is always in a state of change and never finished. Because of this changeyou cant use reductionism methods - or come up with a single platform solutionto the urban operating systems.

Cities are in barely managed statuses of chaos not a machine, but anorganism, and therefore we cant design city solutions as a machine. Hence theneed for an open approach, where the developers dont know what people will dowith the services and places they put in place. In virtual spaces this is vital.

For Helsinki city there is the need to be as open as possible. A sweet point wherepeople can do things in daily lives with these skills and these tools and these cannow be linked to the network of the city was reached. As Clay Shirky has said,when things become technologically boring is when they become sociologically

interesting.

Smart city tools can be used by the normal citizen without training orexperience. Just as with any company the challenge in a city is whether thedirectors are able to lead the process of transformation to help the city renewitself.

The city of Helsinki ICT strategy is built on:

- Basic ICT

- Business intelligence

- Management of information

It is a 3 way relationship between the city and citizens and companies so a city

platform using open data, open access and open interfaces are the only way todo.


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Ways of enabling this include Helsinki region openshare sharing public andsome private data in a coordinated way and through having one of bestfunctioning clearing houses for opendata in Europe (was reinforced by a greatexperience of activity i.e. 140 applications were produced within Apps for

Finland.)Coming up, they are leading on the CitySDK project which is to go further thanopen data, thinking of the city as a services development aggregator, openingdata, interfaces, accesses to services and developers. The project will workacross transport, tourism and citizen feedback across 7 European citiessimultaneously.

Finally it was underlined as better harmonisation of data and APIs will help openup markets to provide better businesses and better services.

Joana Fernandes(Project Coordinator, Lisbon E-Nova).

Lisbonenergy agency works closely with the municipality. Lisbons role isimportant acting as a bridge between Europe, Africa and South America. It is a

popular tourist place, and though a city of half a million people is losingpopulation. It is not a business or financial centre so wants to develop as aninternational hub for entrepreneurship and innovation.

Citizen distrust in local authorities and growing social needs creates challenges but also opportunities, that ICT can help with. Citizens have a voice and wantways to use it. Therefore it is expected that the citizens become a partner andco-producer of new ideas.

Its activity reflects that including such projects as a participatory budget that canlead to social innovation.

The Living lab is around energy efficiency through smart metering to inducebehaviour change.

2011s participatory budgeting led to a co-working space being developed forcreative in the important object of having entrepreneurs and innovators in acommon sharing space. There is a Lisbon fab(rication) lab . Students are alsoasked to involve themselves in looking at solutions to the citys problems.

Lisbonenergy is also looking to implement solutions around sustainabilitymobility - electrical vehicle charging; real time information about publictransport, car sharing scheme/structure sustainability etc.

Joan Batlle

2008 internal reorganisation of public bodies in Barcelona was a moving towards

on how the whole cities could be better organized (a long trip with a long wayto go).

There is a reason why cities exist and Barcelonas approach to the smart city isto recognise that. It needs to be a holistic approach that recognises the cityscomplexity.

Years of experience running different projects have shown this complexity andhave demonstrated how citizens and companies are using the city and itsdifferent areas, from Greenfield to brownfield sites.

The new government came with a mantra that Barcelona has to be a selfsufficient city with services accessed by the citizens, and that sharing servicesvia high speed connectivity is important. The city has a 30 year vision and a

multiskilled, multiagency approach is needed as approach to address thischallenge. The city has then to understand how people add value to the land and how ICT can add value to that.


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All this process is now been studied also in Living Lab environment involvingcitizens more in the process and making experimentation in the real world(breaking out of these city silos).

4.1 .5 Targe t Aud ience

The event was organised as cooperation between FIREBALL, EUROCITIES andFIRE together with different projects in the area of Smart Cities including Cities,Future Internet Research and Open innovation ecosystems such as Living labs.

4.1 .6 Outcomes

The main session related to the FIREBALL Project was the last panel with theinteraction between Commission, Eurocities, FIRE and Living Labs.

The Panel, with the three main listed questions was aimed at identifying theelements, the activities and the characteristics that make a City a Smart-City;the recent and current experience and what has exactly been done to makeCities smart and upon which model (Understanding, Experiencing and Building).

In addition to this panel three working groups established from the Towardssmarter cities: policies, approaches, action session discussed the main topicswith the following outcomes:

- SMEs low involvement and maturity to implement other city practices

- Complexity for Smart Cities environment to be maintained

- Needed collaboration among all other actors / stakeholders: Living Labs,incubators, Cities etc.

The interesting result from the discussion of the panel was in the establishmentof working-groups transversal to these thematic and able to study models forSmart City spread and development.

The first one is based on the need of benchmarking: a ho l i s t i c benchmark ing

working group (not sector specific based) is then considered. An overall modelcapable of addressing indicators and maturity for Smart Cities would be suitableto understand and study the characteristic learning from the success experiencesof todays example.

The second working-group is related to the need of developing Smart Citiesservices. A Mul t i layer openness group, inspired to the openness of opensource software (able to support that vitality needed to stimulate servicesdevelopment) has been considered. The multilayer is based on a multiple levelleveraging open source software on its base and extending it (at different leveland with various accessible mechanisms) to facilities and testbeds and policies.

Third and final working group is related to Service Provis ion . In this case thesensible aspect is linked to the duality between innovative and reliable services:Smart Cities are more willing to adopt reliable services while testbeds andexperimentation in such domain are more innovation oriented.

This duality, that in case of real Smart City environment tends to beoverbalanced to Reliability, could be reconciled in identifying Smart Cities asEnvironment provider for experimentation and innovation as a SandBox.

Reliability

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The duality can be interpreted also in putting together the Soft part of theSmart City environments (Innovation culture, processes, education etc.) and thehardware part (sensors, technology, adoption solutions etc.).

Presentations are available at: http://www.fireball4smartcities.eu/

4 .2 ESOCEI NDUSTRY FORUM 2 0 1 1 SECONDARY W ORKSHOP

Open I nnovat ion and Serv ice Product d eve lopm ent fo r SMEs

The Industrial Forum 2011 was a two days event:

The 5th of December program is organized into two sessions:

- a morning session, built around two main panels of representatives frommajor international enterprises, SME's Clusters, Professional Associations andPolicy makers, providing their own view on the emerging practices forDomain Networks to support Industry and SMEs Services;

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an afternoon session, organised in 2 parallel workshops, introducingInnovation Platform typologies, one on "Domain Living Lab Networks -Instruments and Service in support to SMEs" and the second focusing on"Transversal Critical Themes for Living Labs".

The 6th of December was dedicated to the Match Making of Living Lab and SMEs.SMEs holding a Business idea will chair dedicated Multi-stakeholder Tables toidentify practical steps forward for the launch of joint initiatives and to discussand negotiate terms and conditions for conducting reality checks trials. Theevent will be closed by a plenary session, aiming at summarising findings anddiscussing opportunities for launching joint initiatives.

http://www.esoce.net

4.2 .1 Sess ion Background

By 2020 most services and products will be developed with User Driven OpenInnovation Approaches and most virtual-real Products/Services will be co-created with the contribution of Virtual Professional Communities. In suchcontext innovation processes will evolve in a way that not only Living Labs andTestbeds but also individuals and SMEs become key innovation players. Indeedmore than three-quarters of executives said they believe the greatestinnovations of the 21st century will be those that address human needs, such asimproved health and environmental quality, better energy security and increasedaccess to education. But it's clear that innovation for profit alone simply won'tcut it today. Second, individuals and smaller enterprises can be just as importantto the innovative process as the big guys (75 percent said these groups will be

as innovative as large companies in the 21st century). In such context ESoCENet Industrial Forum is please to respond to the call of the Innovation UnionInitiative: "It is urgent that we all do everything we can do to achieve InnovationUnion" One initiative to pursue this general objective is to create Domain LivingLab Networks supporting SMEs to take part to the innovation of Europe. Theapproach is to demonstrate how and at which level this exchange of experiencecan be useful for identifying what could be shared among network members interms of resources and best practices as well as potential synergies within eachDomain Living Lab Network.

4.2 .2 P r o g r a m m e

09:00 Introduction and Vision 2020, Roberto Santoro ESoCE NetPresident

09:30 Open Innovation Ecosystems addressing major societalchallenges and SMEs


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Panel of Regional Agencies, Industry and Academia

- Global Business Creation in Action: Case Global FacultyPartners for Problems Worth Solving, Marko Sepp,University Alliance Jyvskyl University, Finland

- Design Innovation: promoting the participation of all peoplein the building of our society on an equal basis, FrancescAragall, Design for All Foundation, Spain

- Growing Innovation for SMEs, Caroline Gray-Stephens,Scottish Enterprise, Scotland

- Living Lab Networks Addressing Societal challenges:Sustainable Development, Ageing Society, InclusiveParticipation, Artur Serra, Citilab, Spain

- Boosting SMEs participation in Research and Innovation,Julin Sesea, MaPEeR, Spain

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End-to-End Collaboration for SMEs and Living Labs, PeterHofbauer, Capperinno, Austria

- Ideas Contest: stimulating entrepreneurship for ServiceInnovation, Thorsten Rudolf, Azo, Germany

11:45 SMEs Reality Check Service - Services innovation for satellitedownstream market. The GNSS Living Lab Prize

Finalists from GNSS Living Lab Prize 2011 and Regional Prizewinners

Workshop1

Domain Living Lab Networks" Pilots in action

Living Labs active in the domain showing cases andbest practices in support to SMEs

14:30

Workshop2

Transversal Critical Themes for Living Labs

Workshop Introduction: Characterizing TransversalCritical Themes for Living Labs

17:30 Concluding plenary session

Summarising findings and discussing opportunity of jointinitiatives

4.2 .3 Outcomes

The event presented also the FIREBALL project especially, among the results,the Access, sharing and reuse of Common Assets. The access of these assetswas framed in the thematic domain network discussion where the need forspecific themes for Living Labs in ICT related domain can be a key for futureinnovation opportunities and project partner establishment.

4 .3 THE SOCI ETAL V I EW ON SMART CI T I E S W ORKSHOP AT THE FI A 2 0 1 2 CONFERENCE, AALBORG, 1 0 - 1 1 MAY 2 0 1 2 OTHER EVENTS

Because of the handover of FIREBALL vision and results, and in order to tocontinue the relations with Smart City, Living Labs and FIRE communities,FIREBALL took the initiative to propose a 2-hour workshop at the FIAConference, Aalborg, 10-11 May 2012.

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- Roberto Gimenez, HI-Iberia- Dolores Ordez, Prodigy Consultores.

4.3 .1 Focus and ma in w orkshop top ic

Focus of this workshop is on the societal dimension of smart cities, in particularon social innovation and participation platforms enabled by the Internet. Theworkshop is based on the following three sets of issues and questions:1) How do we understand the societal view on smart cities. How can societal

problems and issues in cities be addressed through Internet-enabled socialnetworks and social innovation platforms and which examples can bepresented. How could social networks act as laboratory of social innovation.How can we understand the evolving innovation ecosystems of smart cities.

2) What are the new citizen-centric social innovation platforms that areemerging. How can these models be implemented in practice based on opennetworks and open data. How may the Future Internet enable socialinnovation platforms that enhance participation, wellbeing and sustainability

in smart cities.3) What are possible partnerships, collaboration frameworks and business

models for platforms of change stimulating social innovation and thedevelopment towards smarter cities. What could be the role of living labs orother innovation models or ecosystems to create, guide and manage suchplatforms.


During previous FIA meetings in Valencia, Ghent, Budapest and Poznan, thetheme of Smart Cities and the Future Internet has received a lot of attention e.g.in the workshops organized by the FIREBALL and FIRE STATION projects. SmartCities are in the heart of policy initiatives such a the Digital Agenda, whereas the

FP7 as well as the CIP ICT-PSP and Future Internet PPP programmes aresupporting a range of projects that relate to smart cities in connection with livinglabs, Internet of Things and the Future Internet.

In recent years, many cities have initiated smart city initiatives focusing on thesocio-economic development and regeneration of cities, and building on thedeployment of broadband infrastructure and the piloting of advanced applicationsin societal domains such as healthcare, government services, energy efficiencyand mobility and transport. As the FIREBALL coordinating action project(www.fireball4smartcities.eu) has investigated, many of these initiatives andstrategies demonstrate a top down orientation and seeking a balance withbottom up initiatives. Increasingly, the notions of citizen empowerment,participative urban planning, and open collaborative innovation gain more

attention in the strategies of transforming towards smarter cities, bringing thesocietal dimension of innovation and urban development to the forefront.Empowering citizens and facilitating the creation of collaboration networks andcommunities may help cities becoming real agents of change.

In this context, an emerging topic which is explored in this workshop is the useand further evolution of the Internet as a common platform for social innovation,fostering socio-economic development, participation and change towardssmarter cities. The underlying idea of social innovation is grounded in citizen co-creation and strengthening participatory capabilities to solve problems of societalnature. To boost social innovation, it is important to consider not only the levelof policies and available technologies. The most important thing to consider isthe needs and aspirations of the citizens and their requirements. Only when

citizens feel identified with the technologies and services offered, will it bepossible to accomplish the objective to engage them in shaping innovation andurban development processes.


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4.3 .3 Fo r m a t o f t h e w o r k s h o p

The workshop is structured in three sessions plus a final panel session of 30minutes. Each session focuses on a particular set of questions. Sufficient timewill be reserved for interaction with the audience.

Invited speakers will include experts and practitioners in the field of smart citiesand social innovation, who are able to share their practical experience, includingrepresentatives of:- Cities, involved in smart city strategies and social innovation- National and international projects and programmes addressing social

innovation enabled by the Internet, the role of living labs in social innovationetc

- Agencies and other organizations including non-profits and academicsinvolved in Future Internet, Smart Cities and Social Innovation.

4.3 .4 P r o g r a m m e

The workshop consists of four parts which are the following:

Part 1: Societal View on Smart Cities (50)

This session introduces the concept and actual issues of social innovation in thecontext of the societal view on smart cities. Keynote speakers will discuss:

- Examples of societal problems in cities that can be improved throughInternet-enabled social networks and social innovation platforms;

- Regeneration of urban areas and the role of platforms for change and socialinnovation;

- How social networks act as laboratories of social innovation in smart cities.

- How can we understand the evolving innovation ecosystems of smart cities.

Keynote Speakers:

- Markku Markkula, Committee of the Regions / Aalto: Social Innovation inCities and Regions

- Iigo de la Serna, Mayor of Santander: Building the smart city relying on thesocial innovation

- Alice Casey, NESTA: Social Innovation and the Internet: approaches andresults from NESTA programmes

Part 2: Citizen-Centric Social Innovation Platforms Enabled by the Internet (25)

This session addresses the emergence and role of social innovation platformsenabled by the Internet.

- What are the new citizen-centric social innovation platforms that areemerging;

- How can these models be enabled and implemented in practice based on theInternet;

- What are the opportunities provided by open networks and open data toaddress social innovation;

- What is the future role of the Internet to enable social innovation platformsthat enhance participation, wellbeing and sustainability in smart cities.

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- Zoheir Sabeur, University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre: Userbehavior driven innovation platforms

- Dolores Ordez, Prodigy Consultores: Destination Hub: Holistic analysis ofneeds and demands of Smart Cities and Smart Citizens

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Sara Guttirrez, Chief Officer of new technologies for Police at MadridMunicipality: Social and Legal Aspects Related to Citizens Empowering

Part 3: Realizing smart city strategies for social innovation (25)

This session focuses on how to realize in practice the smart cities strategies andplatforms for social innovation.

- What are possible partnerships (public and private sector), collaborationframeworks and business models (e.g. based on pre-commercialprocurement) for platforms for stimulating social innovation and thedevelopment towards smart cities;

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What could be the role of living labs or other models of innovationecosystems to create and manage such platforms;

- Practical results in realizing Internet-enabled social innovation and lessonsfor the future.

Speakers :

- Dave Carter, MDDA: Urban Regeneration, digital development strategies andthe Knowledge Economy in Manchester.

- Hans Schaffers, ESoCE Net & Aalto University: Empowering citizens torealizing smart cities, results from FIREBALL Smart city case studies

Part 4: A Plenary discussion / panel (20)

This session will discuss the positions in the previous three sessions and drawconclusions with a view towards Future Internet and Smart Cities relatedinitiatives as well as Horizon 2020.

Moderator: Hans Schaffers, ESoCE Net & Aalto University

4 .4 SMART CI TI ZENS I N SMART CI TI ES AND COMMUNI TI ES CO- CREATI NGFUTURE I NTERNET- ENABLED SERVI CES 2 2 MAY 2 0 1 2 OTHEREVENTS


This interactive conference is the premier European event of this Spring on OpenInnovation for Future Internet in Smart Cities and Communities. It offers you aspublic organisation, SME, corporation, academic, and creative citizen a uniquechance to get involved in shaping Europe's user-driven open innovationecosystems.

5 European projects and organisations bring you an exciting range of world-classkeynotes, concrete results and demos, and many interactive sessions:

- Launch of smart care, energy, manufacturing and media networks thatsupport cross-border Living Lab testing by innovative SMEs

- Results of user-driven open innovation in the Public Sector, creating FutureInternet Services for Smart Cities

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Launch of the European Smart City and Future Internet roadmap- Results of the 6th Wave of new members of the Network, and facilitate a

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- Launch of the European Cities Community Research and Innovation Initiative

- Facilitation of a range of new proposal development opportunities

This 2-day event is organised in collaboration with the European Commission,DG Information Society and Media.

Organising projects and networks: APOLLON OPEN CITIES FIREBALL ENoLL- EUROCITIES

4.4 .2 P r o g r a m m e

Day 1 22 May

09:00 - USER-DRIVEN OPEN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS

- Opening of the Conference

- 1st Keynote by Mario Campolargo, Director Emerging Technologies andInfrastructures, DG INFSO, European Commission

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2nd Keynote on Open Innovation- Key messages by leaders of APOLLON, OPEN CITIES, FIREBALL, ENoLL,

EUROCITIES

11:30 - LOCAL SMEs - INNOVATING ACROSS BORDERS

- Keynote by Frank Bekkers, CEO Mobile Vikings: From local Living Lab to a10 Million Business in 4 years

- How to innovate across borders - for SMEs and Living Labs

- Business impact for SMEs of cross-border open innovation

- Launch of the Living Lab Knowledge Centre

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Launch of the Cross-Border Living Lab Marketplace

- Stakeholder Round Table

- APOLLON legacy: Cross-Border Innovation towards the Future Internet(Smart City Portfolio)

- Handover of APOLLON results to European Network of Living Labs

14:00 - SMART CARE, ENERGY, MANUFACTURING AND SOCIAL MEDIA ACROSS BORDERS

Teh state-of-the art in cross-border innovation and how to build new projects inthese domains:

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Homecare and Independent Living

- Energy Efficiency

- eManufacturing

- eParticipation and Social Media

16:30 - SMART OPEN CITIES AND THE FUTURE INTERNET (FIREBALL SESSION)

- Smart City Landscape, Cases, Policies, by Hans Schaffers (ESoCE Net)

- Smart City Roadmap, by Dave Carter (MDDA)

Day 2 23 May09:00 - LIVING LABS ADDED VALUE FOR THE EUROPEAN INNOVATION SYSTEM

Opening and Keynote


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09:30 - LIVING LABS, SMART CITIES AND FUTURE INTERNET - THE WAYFORWARD

- Smart Cities and Living Lab Opportunities in the Future Internet PPP

- Living Labs Best Practice Cases and Impact Assessment

- Connected Smart Cities Network

- Role of Living Labs in Regional Strategies

11:00 - LIVING LABS, HORIZON 202 AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS

Stakeholders round table

12:05 - ENoLL 6th WAVE RESULTS CEREMONY

ENoLL 6thWave Results Ceremony, jointly with the Danish EU Presidency and the

Directorate General of Information Society and MediaThroughout the conference, a demo and exhibition run of User-driven OpenInnovation Ecosystem projects and results


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5 CONCLUSI ONS AN D OUTLOOK AFTER END OF THE PROJECT

In conclusion to the FIREBALL task 2.2 and summarizing the intermediate steps

this report concludes the establishment of FIREBALL Community is a successfulachievement of the project in the way the created and reinforced links betweenthe different key organization has brought concrete results in knowledge, eventsand initiatives but also projects and business opportunities fields.

The flexible and non conventional form this Community has been established(again related to the characteristics of Future Internet, Living Lab and SmartCities communities) has resulted in more efficient and proactive result thanphysically aggregating the original base Communities with the results (papersand book chapters, project proposals and new initiatives, events organized)reported in ph 2.5 of this documents.

Having brought together the 3 communities during the FIREBALL project it is

important that continuing dialogue takes place to enable future collaborations.On a practical level there are two key recommendations from the smart citiescommunity around how these relationships can be fostered going forward.Firstly, Eurocities Knowledge Society Forum remains a key forum for the smartcities. 2 of its 4 working groups are currently around Open Data and Smart Citiesand there is a possibility that Internet Security may be proposed as a 3rdworking group during 2012. These working groups are committed to workingwith the cities who are involved, and developing useful tools and reports for theiradoption by the smart cities, as well as in collaborating on new projects. Theoutcomes of the FIREBALL project, and subsequent work of the CIP Smart CitiesPortfoilio Working Group will be used to inform the wider city membership viathese working groups. Going forward Eurocities KSF meetings are going to be

more focussed on the working groups providing an enhanced forum fordissemination and collaboration.

Secondly, the smart cities community are very interested in the possibilities oftaking part in future collaborative projects where new and emerging technologiescan be implemented in a real world scenario. From the January jointcommunities event it was recommended that each of the communities providesan opportunity within their own events and dissemination for continuedengagement between the communities. For the smart cities it means inviting FIor Living Lab leaders to speak on relevant topics to their audience, and for LLand FI communities, it means continuing to engage with smart cities byidentifying those assets, tools, resources and technologies that are of mostbenefit to the smart cities (e.g. through illustrative use cases). A good example

is the inclusion of smart cities representatives to the 2012 Future InternetAssembly in Aalborg in May 2012. FIREBALL has facilitated many of theserelationships and with the increasing number of cities involved in innovationprojects, these relationships and knowledge sharing can develop over the nextfew years, as the benefits are seen within the cities themselves.

The activities of FIREBALL are continued on Eurocities and CIP smart Cityworking groups and also FIA and ENoLL.

FIREBALL has stimulated the establishment of active and successful links with allthese communities through the duration of the Project as shown in the followingtable (and based on the events and activity track identified at the beginning ofthe project):

Per iod Ma in re la ted act i v i t i es/ even ts Comm un i ty r e la ted s teps

M6 Connected Smart Cities, Identification of first key aspects


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