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ENoLL Activity Report 2018
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Highlighted Events
Highlighted Events To promote the Open Innovation principles the future was the focal point of the conference. and the Living Lab methodology in which users are at the centre of innovation, ENoLL representatives have been busy speaking at Moscow Urban Forum (July) key European and global events. In this section, In July 2018 Tuija Hirvikoski (Laurea Living Labs) you can find a few highlighted events of 2018. was invited to speak at the Moscow Urban Forum under the title “Megacity of the Future. Networking event: Mediterranean New Space for Living”. She presented leading Innovation comes to Brussels: Finnish examples as well as good practice examples from ENoLL at the session “City as a bringing creative minds together living lab. Testing technologies for the future (May) cities”. Next to that, she spoke about urban development and the importance of Living ENoLL (as a partner in TALIA) with the support Labs in front of an audience that combined of Creative Ring, held a networking event representatives of Russian and foreign city in Brussels aimed at triggering cross-border administrations, architects, urban developers, project collaboration and knowledge exchange heads of finance companies and investors. between two creative communities of practice: the Med Creative Community and the Belgian Creative ecosystem. Inspired by Kristel Van Ael’s iSCAPE Summer School: Air Quality System Design methodology, participants co- Sensing and Approaches for created a set of preliminary project proposals Mitigation (September) as a first step towards future collaboration. Between 17th-18th September, European Smart Cities Global Summit Algeria research and innovation project – iSCAPE (June) (Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution Tuija Hirvikoski (then ENoLL Chairman), joined in Europe) of which ENoLL is a partner, has Mayors, Government Leaders and thought organised a Summer School under the title Air leaders to speak at the Smart Cities Global Quality Sensing and Approaches for Mitigation Summit in Algeria. Creating the smart cities of using Smart Solutions and Citizen
