About
In this two day event we want to address how FIRE and the Living Lab approach can work jointly together and to discuss if and how users can bring added value for Future Internet research to best contribute to European competetiveness and growth. The first day will give an overview of work in progress and results within the FIRE and Living Lab area. In addition ongoing Future Internet reserach in the US and Japan will be presented. During the second day more specific issues will be shared and discussed in specific tutorials and workshops. The first FIREweek was held in Paris autumn 2008 in association with the French EU presidency. This year, 2009 the year of creativity and innovation, the second FIREweek will bring together the FIRE and the LivingLabs communities in a joint event about the future Internet by the people. We expect attendance to be 300+ delegates of experts mainly European, academics, industry from ongoing projects and authorities, European Commission and international organisations.
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Background
The Internet is much more than a communication system. New and unexpected Internet-enabled applications and services make tremendous use of emerging technologies and at the same time shape new requirements for future ones. At a global level, the Internet is becoming more and more the backbone of modern economy and society, to the point where new generations from industrialized countries cannot even conceive a world without Internet. Due to these multiple interactions, the Internet has become a complex system, a living and evolving entity, where any technological development affecting its future may have multifaceted and even unexpected consequences, at any technological, social or economic level. Therefore, new proposals for Internet architectures, protocols and services should not be limited to paperwork, as they need early experimentation and testing in large-scale environments, even though some of these ideas might be implemented only in the long-term – this is what Future Internet research and experimentation FIRE is about!.
FIRE - Future Internet Research
FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation is an initiative under the ICT theme of EU Framework Programme 7. Projects selected under Call 2 - Objective 1.6 “New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities” are the first step under FP7 towards building FIRE. The initiative has two related dimensions: Building a European Experimental Facility for Future Internet research, and supporting experimentally-driven advanced research, which defines the challenges for and takes advantage of the dynamically evolving facility. The FIREworks is a FP7 Support Action from the FIRE Objective 1.6 that coordinates and supports interworking of testbed activities in Europe and their respective connections outside of Europe, mainly to North America and Far East.
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Living Labs
Living Labs are open innovation environments in real-life settings, in which user-driven innovation is fully integrated within the co-creation process of new services, products and societal infrastructures. In recent years, Living Labs have become a powerful instrument for effectively involving the user at all stages of the research, development and innovation process. Living Lab is normally a very local set-up; an area or a region is establishing a living lab to foster its development and to improve the life of its citizens. However, since Living Lab is about people together for better tomorrow, scaling up the concept and jointly benefiting from the power of co-creation is fundamental for the philosophy to be put in action. Hence the European Network of Living Labs, ENoLL. Despite the idea of Living labs born in US, the network is a European concept, which now after the third wave of ENoLL members grew global and even beyond European borders.
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