Hi everyone,
Aim with this deliverable is to produce a plan for integration with existing city labs and demonstration. A plan will be developed for each solution identified. Since Workings Groups are formulated and the solution ideation phase is in progress, we believe is a good time to start!
We have received some input from you by answering the questionnaire about Living Labs before the kick-off meeting. Some of the partners (Aarhus, Amsterdam, Ghent, Dordrecht, Bergen) have named existing/upcoming Living Labs at their cities which they would like to use and test the solutions from SCORE project. A short description about each of them can be found below.
Aarhus Municipality named:
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The City Lab (existing): A new City Lab/Living lab was established in 2017 with a main area at the Dock in form of a city square (public space). Geographically, the City Lab stretch from Agro Food Park in Skejby to Dokk1 at the center of Aarhus. Business clusters such as Aarhus University Hospital, Agro Food Park, IT City Katrinebjerg and Energy Hub Navitas will support the City Lab with knowledge on Food, Health, Clean tech and much more.
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Liveable City Lab (future): The vision for the future Liveable City Lab is for it to be able to frame meetings, dialogue, idea development and process facilitating with a city development scope. It must support cooperation and dialogue between citizens, businesses and the municipality, and contribute towards increased quality of life in Aarhus.
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TAPAS (future): Testbed in Aarhus for Precision positioning and Autonumous Systems (TAPAS) is a research project addressing the increased demand for fast and accurate positioning. 12 GNSS reference stations will be placed around the municipality and Aarhus Bay, and the test area will be used as research and development center for private and public enterprises. This first project phase is a joint venture between the national SDFE, DTU Space and Aarhus Municipality.
Amsterdam City named:
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Datalab - city of Amsterdam
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Amsterdam Data Science - a network of Researchers
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Neighborhood Insight
The central idea behind Neighborhood Insight is to present highly user friendly city-data dashboards in the online platforms of the local communities. The ultimate goal of the concept is to support local networks in a collaborative process of local decision making. -
Improving response to citizen reports using artificial intelligence
A project improving liveability of the neighbourhoods in Amsterdam by designing an intelligent citizen report system relying on multi-modal analysis of participatory data, social multimedia and open data. To allow for efficient and effective responding to citizen reports, the system will perform automatic classification, routing and prioritising.
City of Ghent named:
- Ghent Living Lab, https://stad.gent/smartcity-en
City of Dordrecht named:
- A Living Lab in which they experiment with smart data and is scheduled to end in 2018. https://slimstestad.nl/programma-2017-2018/ (info in Dutch)
City of Bergen mentioned that:
- There are 2-6 Living Labs. The structure varies with the different LLs. In some areas the municipality has a building project and engages with various partners (public/private) and inhabitants in the area. Other LLs are a result of political decisions (car free zone, low emissions zones, social improvements areas). Activities range from using the street space differently (facilitating car sharing, bike riding, use of Public transport and walking), managing the need for rapidly growing e-mobility, utilizing the common areas in urban space for urban gardening and social interaction.
We would like that Aarhus, Amsterdam, Bergen, Dordrecht and Ghent share some more information material/links about their city labs so we can get a better view.
Please focus on these living labs that you believe will be interesting to be used by the Working Groups being formulated so far. Gothenburg city & Johanneberg Science Park will share some material as well.
Thank you in advance for your efforts! 
Best,
Eva
