Living Labs Open Innovation Community interactive day

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Dear Living Labs Open Innovation Community & AMI communities members,

We remind you that the registration will close on Thursday, 11th October, for the key European Network of Living Labs and Open Innovation events of this autumn, on 16 & 17 October 2007 in Brussels:

• Living Labs Open Innovation Community interactive day
  on Tuesday, 16/10 at 10:00-18:00 hrs. This event is organised by these Living Labs related projects, funded by the European Commission: CoreLabs, CLOCK, OpenFutures, Collaboration@Rural, CoSpaces, ECOSPACE, Laboranova and WearIT@Work.

  Venue: IBBT-iLab Open Innovation Centre Brussels (OICB), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.

• Co-creative Research, Development and Innovation to Connect the Lisbon Strategy to People: Launch of the 2nd wave of the European Network of Living Labs
  on Wednesday, 17/10 at 09:00-13:00 hrs. This event is a Portuguese Presidency roadmap event, organized with the Living Labs Portfolio Leadership Group, the above-mentioned EC funded Living Labs related projects, and the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission.

  Venue: Centre Albert Borschette, European Commission, room 0A, rue Froissart 36, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

To participate in these events, it is mandatory to register yourself via:
http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/ENoLL_and_Open_Innovation_mid-October_events

45 applications were submitted in time to the ENoLL 2nd wave Call for Membership Applications. Come and meet key stakeholders and participants of earlier and new Living Labs. Learn, contribute and welcome the new ENoLL members!

See you in Brussels next week.

Best regards,

Veli-Pekka Niitamo
Chair, Living Labs Portfolio Leadership Group
Director, mWork Research
Nokia Business Infrastructure

Mikael Börjeson
Co-chair, Living Labs Portfolio Leadership Group
Coordinator, CoreLabs EU Coordination Action
CEO, Centre for Distance-spanning Technologies CDT
Luleå University of Technology

Álvaro de Oliveira
Co-chair, Living Labs Portfolio Leadership Group
Strategy Board Chair & Policy Coordinator, CLOCK EU Coordination Action
CEO, Alfamicro Lda

PS. For the above-mentioned Living Labs related projects, there will in addition be in Brussels a cluster meeting of the Living Labs portfolio on Monday, 15th October, at 10h30-17h30, continued on Wednesday, 17th October, at 14h30-17h30. Invitations for this meeting have been sent to the project coordinators and Leadership Group members.

Are we living in a Lab?

Hello, my name is Helge Keitel, KK-Net, Finland. I've been here at Ami@Work for some time. I make occasional blog postings, discussed today with another Finn, Kurt Linderoos, and we tried to figure out why Ami@Work and several other EU project sites are covering interesting themes, but after a while all discussion dies out and what is left is a good platform that doesn't get the collaboration to a practical cross-bordering level.

I've seen that you're an active member and would like to know if you are coming to Helsinki IST 2006 and it would be nice to try figure our how we could get more steam and power into the EU collaboration.

Maybe I haven't participated in the right way? I try to understand the processes and to see what we could do. I follow the Web 2.0 development in USA and can't see the same thing happening over here.

My skype is visualradio

Please, let me know if you have time to talk.

Best regards

Helge Keitel
helgekeitel@gmail.com