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Collaboration@Rural
A collaborative platform for working and living in rural areas
Karin Nichterlein/ Francisco LópezBuilding Partnerships for Technology Generation, Assessment and Transfer among West
Balkan Countries
27-29 June 2007- Skopje, Macedonia
http://www.c-rural.eu
C@R - Presentation Summary
• Overall Project Objectives
• Project Organization
• Living Labs Vision
• FAO’s Role
http://www.c-rural.eu
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• C@R intends to promote the introduction of collaborative working environments• key enablers of sustainable development in rural areas
• C@R proposes a technological response to the barriers preventing rural development • development, test and validation of a collaborative platform to
enhance the capabilities of rural inhabitants leading to a better quality of life and a revalorization of rural settings
• C@R uses the living labs methodology as a way to involve rural constituency in RTD activities addressing collaborative technologies• inclusion in the wide sense: to enable people in remote and rural
Europe to fully participate in the knowledge society as citizens and professionals
C@R – Partners and figures
• Partners• Project Coordinator – TRAGSATEC
• Executive Management Board Chair - ESA
• 27 partners• 12 European enterprises• Key Service Industry, Value Added and SME• International institutions, and Key National Users• Research, University
• Project Figures• Total cost: about 15 M€• Funding: 8.65 M€
• Duration: 36 months
• Sixth Framework Programme – Information society Technologies (Priority 2)
INDUSTRYINDUSTRY
SMEsSMEs
INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL
ORGANISATIONS AND ORGANISATIONS AND
ENDEND--USER PARTNERSUSER PARTNERS
ACADEMIA ACADEMIA -- RESEARCHRESEARCH
C@R – Partners types
C@R Project RTD LinesC@R Project RTD LinesC@R Project RTD LinesC@R Project RTD Lines
C@R development in 4 RTD activity blocks
• Collaborative Architecture / Framework• Collaborative Core Services
• Software Collaborative Tools
• 5 coordinated Living Labs in innovative and traditional sectors distributed in Europe and elsewhere (9 sites)
• Collaborative Rural Incubator
• Collaborative Open Communities / Governance
• Collaborative Fishery / Woodland
• Systemic and sustainable use of results in C@R• Socio-economical impact on policies for rural
development
• Assessment, dissemination, exploitation …
Open Collaborative Platform
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Will foster rural
sustainable development
Promotion of a rural community awareness:
• Participation and inclusion in governance
• Creation of virtual communities
Prevention of out migration:
• Helps retaining young people
Globalization process:
• Prevent disconnection facilitating
• Access to digital contents
@Life
Traditional sectors:
• Conditions for sustainability of rural economies
• Increasing productivity
Emerging occupations:
• Promote rural entrepreneurship
• Create employment in a knowledge-based society
• Enable new business models
@Work
value creation in remote and rural areas stressing
innovation, job creation and growth together with full inclusion of European citizens in the knowledge society
and economy.
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Innovation ApproachInnovation ApproachInnovation ApproachInnovation Approach
Market
TechnologyPolicy
Society Base on Article “State-of-the-art in
utilizing Living Labs approach to
user centric ICT innovation – a
European approach” Dec 15,
2005 Mats Eriksson, Veli-
Pekka Nitamo & Seija Kulkki
Old fashioned
Un Economical
Low Acceptance
Lose opportunities
Higher barriers
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• Rural Living Labs (RLL) are research environments where validating applications will be developed over the
C@R Architecture in different validating scenarios.
• RLLs are intended to be mediating environments between
the base technologies and the rural development objectives
• The RLL establish a flow of technology from lab tasks to rural areas according to technological requirements and
indicators.
• On the other hand RLL allow an information flow between policy-related stakeholders and developers through the
required criteria for rural development and sustainability.
C@R C@R C@R C@R Systemic and sustainable use
of results
• Extensive and ambitious plan for using C@R results in EU, China, Brazil and South Africa
• Focused actions will be developed to guarantee a high impact, paying a great attention to policy aspects of rural
development.
• Partner no 20: FAO
• Role in C@R• awareness on rural problems• methodology for ict needs assessment
• Facilitate linkages of private sector with Academia and National and International Research Centres
• Dissemination of project achievements
• Block 4: Systemic and sustainable use of results• FAO focus on: Networked Research, boosting
synergies. see p 18
• Contacts: [email protected]