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GNSS Living Lab Prize
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Starting Position
Living Labs are User Driven Open Innovation Platforms. Stakeholders, including
firms, public agencies, universities, institutes and users are all collaborating for
creating, prototyping, and validating new service-products and societal infrastructures
in real-life contexts in a Public-Private-People-Partnership (PPPP).
The Living Labs are grouped under the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL),
which was launched in November 2006 by the EU Finnish Presidency and supported
by the subsequent ones.
212 Living Lab sites are already operational in domains, spanning from eHealth
to Energy Optimisation and Efficiency, from Intelligent Mobility to Inclusion of
the elderly and disadvantaged people and Rural Development. The project GAINS
(Galileo Advanced INnovation Services) funded under the European Union’s Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7) and supervised by the GSA, supports the
establishment of a dedicated GNSS Living Lab special topic prize in line with the
ESNC 2010. It aims at facilitating the emergence of User Driven Open Innovation
Demand for services and applications enabled by satellite navigation technologies.
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Objectives
The GNSS Living Lab Prize calls for developers and users, engineers of research
institutes, and development departments but also from new ventures to submit
proposals for GNSS-related products and services ready to be tested and ideally
implemented in a suitable Living Lab. Submissions to the prize shall focus on one
of the following themes: health, energy and media.
| Theme 1: GNSS for health, ageing and inclusion |
This theme calls for highly innovative services and integrated solutions with the
aim of a triple win: unlocking the huge business opportunities in Europe and in
the global market, containing the costs for society, and improving the quality of
life (including good health) in general and in particular for the elderly and disabled. Submissions for this theme should address one or more of the following topics:
GNSS technologies for
- patient-centred health services
- innovative eHealth tools and services in real life
- learning together, including inclusion, accessibility and coverage
- ageing well / independent living
- support of health information systems and telemedicine
- systemic and managerial innovation, efficiency and process improvement
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| Theme 2: GNSS for energy efficiency and environment |
GNSS technologies can play an important role in reducing the energy intensity / consumption
of the economy and at the same time in reducing carbon emissions. Hereby urban
areas are of high importance to provide the right setting for testing, validating and deploying
GNSS-based solutions for improved energy efficiency. Innovative GNSS solutions
and applications can help reduce energy consumption in private households and public
buildings and spaces. In the area of environmental management, they can enable a rapid
and efficient response to extreme incidents induced by climate change. GNSS technologies
can bring about substantial improvements in monitoring and situation awareness, data
sharing and interoperability, and decision-support and communications. Applications to
be submitted for this theme should address prevention, preparedness and response to
climate-induced incidents concerning both urban and rural settings with solutions e.g. for:
- environment and energy efficiency in private households and in public buildings
- prevention, alert and rescue to minimise impacts of climate change
- mobility efficiency
- efficient lighting
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| Theme 3: Media |
| In the last ten years, digital media have succeeded in transforming the global media landscape.
Every part of the industry, from television to movie industry, from newspapers to
music has seen the way people consume media content change dramatically. The media
creation, promotion, delivery and buying act have all been impacted. Business models
are changing so fast that the industry has difficulties catching up with the trends. Web 2.0
technologies have even amplified this change of behaviour by providing cheaper disseminating
technologies allowing new media to reach millions of readers with almost no capital
expenditures. Media have an important role to play in e-participation and e-democracy
as they foster new ways of developing user participation as active co-producers of content
and services. They contribute to strengthen the process of open innovation, to maximise
impacts in terms of social cohesion. New telecommunication networks as 3G+, 4G, Wimax,
FTTx and new devices as smartphones, and netbooks generate new types of consumer
behaviour in the media industry. In this context, GNSS technologies and services
can complement the offer generated by the above mentioned technologies and provide
citizens and people with added value services in the sectors of:
- tourism
- e-participation and e-democracy
- education
- leisure
- gaming
- social networks
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Prize
The GNSS Living Lab Prize will be awarded to three winners, who will get the opportunity
to conduct a “reality check trial” in a suitable Living Lab with the involvement of relevant
user communities and potential future customers. The winning innovators will thus benefit
from the validation of their ideas, the user oriented engineering of their products
and services, the development of their entrepreneurial team and the intensifying of their
network of industrial relationships.
In addition the three winners will receive prize money of 10,000 EUR each.
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