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Living Labs are born as a strategy for bringing benefits to ICT R&D, but by
moving out of the research laboratory and into real contexts of living and
working they are assuming ever stronger links with regional policies. This
territorial dimension is emerging as a new approach to achieving local
development objectives for promoting a sustainable knowledge economy,
transversal to specific application domains such as health, transport, energy or
the environment.
Several working groups are proposed to focus the activities of the Regional
Development thematic domain network on concrete aspects of regional policy.
The initial five are as follows:
• Med Group:1 with a focus on the Mediterranean regions and their specific
development needs and potential;
• Rural Group: carrying forward the work started with the C@R project and
enriched with the many new ENoLL members working in rural territories;
• Urban Group: bringing together Living Labs that address urban renewal and
specifically urban problems such as mass transport, refuse, and air quality;
• Coastal Group: including Living Labs related to Integrated Coastal Zone
Management, sustainable fishing policies, coastal and marine ecological
corridors, etc.
• Cross-border Group: addressing issues specific to cross-border areas and the
inter-cultural, inter-administration, inter-lingual, etc. problems that arise.
Each group will follow a common working plan for 2009 consisting in:
• A census of Living Labs falling within the scope of the working group;
• A comparative analysis of the policy regional development addressed;
• Case studies that demonstrate the benefits to regional development.
This work will firstly identify priority topics for cooperative projects based on a
range of instruments, including at the regional level a coordinated approach for
regional EARDF, OP ERDF and ESF programmes and at the European level
programmes such as CIP IST PSP, FP7, and Territorial Cooperation.
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This group is strongly tied to the recently launched MEDLAB project (Territorial Cooperation
MED Programme), the first explicitly Living Lab initiative in DG Regio.
The Regional Development thematic domain network is open to the
participation of all ENoLL members and other interested parties. You are invited
to send an expression of interest with a brief profile and an indication of the
working groups of greatest relevance or you can directly register at
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cmFjMUJxeldwalkxaDRKQ0
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