The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international federation of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and worldwide. In the following presentation ENoLL presents what it means for cities to be Living Lab and what is the difference between Cities as Living Labs and Urban Living Labs.

1. Cities as Living Labs and
Large Scale experimentations for Digital Innovation
Zsuzsanna Bódi – Association Manager
Tuija Hirvikoski – ENoLL President

2. QUADRUPLE (multiple) HELIX MODEL
TO CO-CREATE FUTURE
The awarded Living Lab approach develops, manages and contributes
to local ecosystems and inter-disciplinary teams thus fostering
inclusion within urban and regional contexts.
Multi-thematic: Culture, urban innovation, cultural-heritage, well-being,
ICT, sustainability, skills development and inclusion, etc.

3. Cities as Living Labs vs Urban Living Labs?
“Urban Living Labs are a form of
experimental governance, whereby
urban stakeholders develop and test
new technologies, products, services
and ways of living to produce
innovative solutions to the challenges
of climate change, resilience and
urban sustainability.“
(Friedlich et al., 2013); (Juujärvi and
Lund, 2016). Voytenko, et. al. (2016)
“open innovation ecosystem based
on a systematic user co-creation
approach that integrates public
and private research and
innovation activities in communities,
placing citizens at the centre of
innovation.”

4. LIVING LABS
ATHREE LAYER MODEL
Open Innovation:
Knowledge transfers between
organizations
MACRO
MESO
Open & User Innovation:
Real life experimentation, active
user involvement, multi-method and
multi-stakeholder
Source: Dimitri Schuurman
Living Lab constellation consisting of organised
stakeholders (PPP-Partnership)
RESARCH PARADIGM
Living Lab innovation projects using
Living Lab methodologies
Individual Living Lab research steps
and activities linked to the stakeholders’
assets and capabilities
MICRO User Innovation:
User involvement &
contribution for innovation
DEFINITION

5. Transnational Experimentations

6. Large Scale Pilot Projects to follow
• SynChroniCity represents the first attempt to deliver a Single Digital City
Market for Europe by piloting its foundations at scale in reference zones
across 8 European cities, involving also other cities globally. It addresses how
to incentivise and build trust for companies and citizens to actively
participate in finding common co-created IoT solutions for cities that meet
citizen needs.
• Through the approach of Living Labs iscape will deploy a network of air
quality and meteorological sensors (both stationary and mobile) and
evaluate through analysis and a suite of up-to-date numerical modelling the
benefits expected from the interventions on a neighborhood and city-wide
scale for several aspects ranging from quantification of pollutant
concentration to exposure.
• U4IoT (User engagement for Large Scale Pilots on the Internet of
Things) combines complementary expertise encompassing social and
economic sciences, communication, crowdsourcing, living labs, co-creative
workshops, meetups and personal data protection to actively engage end-
users and citizens in the large scale pilots.

7. Challenges and opportunities of creating
a city-wide test bed for digital innovation
Challenges Opportunities
Exploration Creating a trusted ecosystem and local
community around interdisciplinary or specific
city level thematic topics.
Giving the floor to bottom up projects and
citizen/user driven initiatives – solving real life
challenges.
Engagement Willingness/Motivation of end users to
participate in experimentation processes/projects.
Giving equal chance to all, empower everyone
to innovate!
Evaluation Outreach and motivation: providing the right
sample for the Living Lab project evaluation;
sharing and standardising data and handling
privacy issues.
Disrupt and transform!
Throughout a thorough, iterative feedback
process receiving a reliable feedback ensuring
safe entry to market or investments decisions.
Experimentation Finding the right experts and the project
constellation, different needs of transnational
peers.
Multidisciplinary, Pan-European and global
participation.
Entrepreneurial
aspect
Proving business readiness and sustainability
aspect of the Living Lab “to be”.
Market creation potential.

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