Collaboration@Rural A collaborative platform for working and living in rural areas Karin Nichterlein/ Francisco López Building 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
C@R - Overall Objectives 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)
C@R Partners types INDUSTRY INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND END-USER PARTNERS SMEs ACADEMIA - RESEARCH
C@R Project RTD Lines C@R development in 4 RTD activity blocks Collaborative Architecture / Framework Collaborative Core Services Software Collaborative Tools Open Collaborative Platform 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
C@R expected impact Will foster rural sustainable development Traditional sectors: Conditions for sustainability of rural economies Increasing productivity @Work Emerging occupations: Promote rural entrepreneurship Create employment in a knowledge-based society Enable new business models Promotion of a rural community awareness: Participation and inclusion in governance Creation of virtual communities Prevention of out migration: Helps retaining young people @Life Globalization process: Prevent disconnection facilitating Access to digital contents
C@R vision: i2010 Human i2010 Human-centric + Systemic Innovation Approach 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. Market Un Economical Old fashioned Technology Low Acceptance Society Lose opportunities Higher barriers Policy 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
Collaboration@Rural: Living Labs 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 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: Isabel.Alvarez@fao.org Francisco.Lopez@fao.org