Living Labs and Connected Smart Cities at the Future Internet Assembly (FIA)

European Network of Living Labs will co-organise a pre-FIA session entitled ‘Connected Smart Cities and Future Internet: Open, Shared Experimental Platforms and Ecosystems’ at the FIA 2013 taking place in Dublin (Ireland) on May 7th. More information about the FIA 2013 you can find here: http://www.fi-dublin.eu/

Interventions/demos will address the topics of Future Internet enabled Smart Cities and Living Labs, are areas such as:

European Network of Living Labs will co-organise a pre-FIA session entitled ‘Connected Smart Cities and Future Internet: Open, Shared Experimental Platforms and Ecosystems’ at the FIA 2013 taking place in Dublin (Ireland) on May 7th. More information about the FIA 2013 you can find here: http://www.fi-dublin.eu/

Interventions/demos will address the topics of Future Internet enabled Smart Cities and Living Labs, are areas such as:

• Projects addressing open Innovation for Internet-enabled services in ‘smart’ cities
• Projects initiatives that Increase the effectiveness of business processes and operation infrastructures in sectors relevant to city activities
• Future Internet Research & Experimentation related projects City-scale (experimental research facility in support of typical applications and services for a smart city)

Other themes relevant to Living Labs that will be be touched upon are social innovation, entrepreneurship, citizens’ engagement and co-production, co-caring, co-housing and Future Internet enabled health and well-being, Urban Living Labs etc…

About Future Internet Assembly

FIA supported by more than 150 research projects that have recognised the need to strengthen European activities on the Future Internet (FI) to maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace. In particular, these projects have identified the urgent need to redesign significant part of the Internet, taking a broad multidisciplinary approach, to meet European societal, business and technology ambitions. Participants are members of the FI community, who include the national and EU project coordinators and partners of FP7 funded projects both academic and industry researchers. FIA is open to all researchers engaged in FI research (including non EU-funded researchers) to contribute and participate. It allows for open interactions and cross-fertilisation across technical domains, reaching out to our expert European FI community.The theme for FIA-Dublin will be “Future Internet accelerates Innovation”, and the event will focus on how European Future Internet research and innovation will support EU’s competitiveness and enable a new wave of technologies at the eve of Horizon 2020