D2.2 Community Workshop Report

FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME 7,
THEME 3, OBJECTIVE 1.6

ICT – INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES
COORDINATING ACTION
FP7-ICT-2009-5
D2.2 – COMMUNITY WORKSHOP

REPORT
This report presents the strategy and the rationale followed within the FIREBALL
project to establish and run a European Joint Community for Future Internet and
Open Innovation. This document aims to report and describe also the events
and initiatives within the project to involve and engage relevant key
organizations to accomplish the above task and objective.
ABOUT FIREBALL ATTRIBUTES OF THIS OBJECT

The over-all objective of the FIREBALL project Project Type Coordinating Action
is to coordinate and align methodologies and Project name FIREBALL
approaches in the domains of Future Internet Project ID FP7-ICT-2009-5
(FI) research and experimentation testbeds Deliverable D2.2 (M24)
and user driven open innovation towards
Deliverable name Community Workshop Report
successful innovation in smart city
environments. Work package WP2, Task 2.2
Object type
In doing so, and in covering the whole FI Object title
research and innovation value chain driven by Version 1.11 – M24
smart cities being the users of the FI, Status Final
FIREBALL aims to establish effective forms of Responsible org. ESoCE Net
cooperation across the FI innovation value
Creators Alessandro Braccini and Roberto
chain, creating synergies and cooperation Santoro, ESoCE Net
practices among different research and
Contributors Adrian Slatcher, Hans Schaffers
innovation communities related to the FI.
www.fireball4smartcities.eu Submitted 27.04.2012

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STATUS: FINAL, SAVED: 04 MAY 2012
SECT. CONTENT PAGE

1 INTRODUCTION 3
1.1 OBJECTIVE AND CONTEXT OF THIS REPORT 3
1.2 OVERVIEW OF THIS REPORT 4
2 EUROPEAN JOINT COMMUNITY FOR FUTURE INTERNET AND OPEN INNOVATION 5
2.1 INTRODUCTION 5
2.2 FOUR WORKSHOPS 5
2.3 EUROPEAN JOINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PHASES 6
2.4 COMMUNITY BUILDING: FROM COMMON INTEREST IDENTIFICATION TO JOINT COMMUNITY
FOR FUTURE INTERNET, LIVING LABS AND SMART CITIES 8
2.5 FIREBALL JOINT COMMUNITY FOR FUTURE INTERNET, LIVING LABS AND SMART CITIES
RESULTS 10
3 EVENT AND ACTIVITIES PLANNING 14
4 ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS REPORT CURRENT PERIOD (M19 – M24) 15
TH
4.1 SUSTAINABLE SMART CITIES – PROMOTED BY EUROCITIES – 25 JANUARY 2012:
PRIMARY WORKSHOP 15
4.2 ESOCE INDUSTRY FORUM 2011 – SECONDARY WORKSHOP 24
4.3 THE SOCIETAL VIEW ON SMART CITIES – WORKSHOP AT THE FIA 2012 CONFERENCE –
OTHER EVENTS 25
4.4 FIREBALL FINAL EVENT – SMART CITIZENS IN SMART CITIES AND COMMUNITIES CO-
CREATING FUTURE INTERNET-ENABLED SERVICES – MAY 2012 28
5 CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK AFTER END OF THE PROJECT 31
Framework programme 7 Coordinating Action FIREBALL

Challenge 1 Page: 2 (34) FP7-ICT-2009-5
www.fireball4smartcities.eu
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1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 OBJECTIVE AND CONTEXT OF THIS REPORT

The aim of this report is to describe and explain the rationale, instruments and
steps towards establishing a European Joint Community for Future Internet and
Open Innovation, and to present the results achieved up to the end of the
project (April 2012 – M24) as improvements of the current period described
(M19-M24) and based on the three previous reports already issued (with
description and activities until December 2010 -M6-, May 2011 -M12- and
October 2011 -M18).
We envisaged the European Joint Community for Future Internet and Open
Innovation as a final result of bringing together, within the FIREBALL Project,
three different constituencies. These three constituencies include those working
on User Driven and Open Innovation (Living Labs), on the Future Internet
Research and Experimentation, and on Smart Cities. The key ambition of such an
European Joint Community is to create and strengthen open, user driven
innovation ecosystems for Future Internet and Smart Cities in Living Lab
establishing links among key people and stimulating activities in a virtual fertile
environment. Establishment of the European Joint Community started from a
dialogue among these communities and passed by exploring the “linkages”
between them, as originally explained in the FIREBALL D2.1 Deliverable
“Landscape and Roadmap of Future Internet and Smart Cities” (Task 2.1).
The achievement of Fireball Task 2.2 passed then though the successful
identification of relevant constituencies, organizations and experts that shaped
this European Joint Community, bringing these communities together and
organizing a dialogue which was fostered through the organization of a series of
events and workshops targeting key issues of high importance (for the
constituencies mentioned and providing a basis for future collaboration after the
project completion).
Besides presenting the underlying rationale, instruments and steps, this D2.2
report proposes a series of four (main) FIREBALL workshops held over the
project duration period (May 2010 – April 2012) as master-plan for the FIREBALL
Community establishment. Additionally this report presents the events already
organized within the Fireball project, in particular during the current M19-M24
period. This report is a concluding report due for M24 considering all the
intermediate issues until April 2012 both at event (attendance, presentations
and discussions, impact and achievements) and at Community Activities
achievements.
For information about events and Community establishment for the previous
period than the one covered by this document, you can refer to the similar
reports (issued at M6, M12 and M18) included in the references. Description of
the achievements of the previous period as well as a summary of what was
obtained with the original plan for the FIREBALL Community establishment is
also included in the section 2 of this document.
The establishment of the Community has successfully been achieved through the
process and the rationale anticipated in this paragraph and in this report (over
the full four periods). The Community has not been established in a conventional
form in a way that the specificity of the task and the starting base of three
already existing and active Communities could not require a conventional
approach.

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The followed path of event organization has allowed the establishment of direct
and effective links among people within the target base Communities and to
strengthen the existing relationships among them. The result of this approach
was then instead of setting up another (new) Community to stimulate and create
new knowledge (jointly), stimulate the organization of events (social) and finally
to encourage business opportunities (and the launch of new projects).1 A full
description of joint initiatives during and for the establishment of the FIREBALL
Community is included in ph. 2.5 “Fireball Joint Community for Future Internet,
Living Labs and Smart Cities Results” in this Report.
1.2 OVERVIEW OF THIS REPORT

In section 2 we provide an overall explanation of the rationale, the logic and the
strategy followed to establish the European Joint Community for Future Internet
and Open Innovation. It includes also a summary of the previous steps included
in the intermediate versions of this report.
Section 3 reports the description and the over-all planning of the initiatives and
the events for the overall project duration in order to achieve the establishment
of such Community. A final section with the achievements for the establishment
of the Community is included.
Section 4 includes a detailed description of the events and the initiatives
performed within the project from November 2011 to April 2012.
Finally, section 5 presents conclusions and outlook to final phase of work.
1
See “Professional Virtual Communities” PVC Reference Framework – R. Santoro, A.
Bifulco

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2 EUROPEAN JOINT COMMUNITY FOR FUTURE INTERNET AND OPEN

INNOVATION
2.1 INTRODUCTION
As described in the first paragraph of this document, establishing a Joint
Community for Future Internet and Open Innovation (pursued in the form
explained in this final report) was important milestone within the FIREBALL
project, in order to bring together the three components of Living Lab, Smart
Cities and Future Internet Communities.
During its establishment phase this European Joint Community was considered
as a “virtual” concept. Efforts and works were put on activities aimed at
strengthening the collaboration among existing communities such as FIA (Future
Internet Assembly), ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) and Eurocities
(representing the interests of Smart Cities). The successive phase to move the
European Joint Community as an entity was also considered. The decision to
eventually establish a European Joint Community as a separate entity has to be
taken collectively by the three constituencies involved ater the end of the project
(M24 – April 2012).
This Community created was though to be able to fulfil a key role in creating
synergies, based on the resources and methodologies brought together by the
constituencies involved, to realize the goal of Future Internet for Smart Cities
through creating user driven open innovation ecosystems.
The Community was establish starting from initial relations with key
organizations or communities such as FIA, Eurocities, ENoLL, and also dedicated
professional networks such as pre-commercial procurement specialists, business
innovators and SME-related organisations.
As already anticipated in the document introduction this objective has been
achieved stimulating links and in the specific by collective meetings:
- participation in FIA meetings and events
- participation of Living Lab representatives to Eurocities events
- launch of Joint initiatives.
2.2 FOUR WORKSHOPS

The support to this task has been planned based on the organization of (at least)
four international workshops –back-to-back to other events - to identify and
discuss opportunities for collaboration aiming to strengthen innovation
ecosystems for Future Internet and Smart Cities. Important topics in the
discussions included open innovation approaches, living labs methods,
experimental Future Internet approaches, Smart City strategies, and
opportunities for synergy and collaboration. The scope of these four workshops
(defined in Chapter 3 of this document “Events and Activities Planning”) was
both part of the project dissemination activity and direct instrument for the
European Joint Community establishment task 2.2 objectives.
These four workshops acted as main structure around activities and involvement
actions performed for the Joint Community establishment. This logical structure
was exploited to identify also additional events and initiatives whose organization
was conducted in parallel with the main four workshops. These additional
initiatives were hereafter identified as “Other Events”.

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Last but not least the identification of these logical phases (on which the
establishment of the Future Internet, Smart Cities and Living Lab community
links were developed) was also the main structure around which other activities
could foster and stimulate collaboration and interconnections among the three
domains in a flexible way. This approach was useful also not to focusing and
fixing rigidly on the topics originally identified (at the beginning of the project)
merging the need of working in parallel on different tracks such as the Future
Internet and Smart Cities landscape, the Common Assets sharing, community
collaboration models, Smart Cities roadmap within the context of Future Internet
Support Actions etc.
2.3 EUROPEAN JOINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PHASES

The four international Workshops followed a specific logic of initiating, building
and extending the Joint Community. The methodology on which the organisation
of the workshops was thus built is described by the following phases:
1. Awareness and engagement building: common interest
identification, initial exchanges and discussions;
2. Consensus Building on the Future Internet and Smart Cities
landscape, based on joint vision building (see D2.1 Landscape and
Roadmap);
3. Collaboration Models based on Sharing Commons (commons are
understood as resources that can be shared among the Community,
including testing and experimenting facilities, methodologies, know
how, user groups);
4. Initiatives and Follow up (Collaborative initiatives, common projects,
Initiatives towards Future Internet and Smart Cities).
This scheme was also interpreted in a flexible manner, in order to exploit in a
pragmatic way the opportunities that were emerging from the intensified
exchanges with the FIA community (FIRE projects and support actions, FISA
Roadmapping), Eurocities, and ENoLL that has facilitate the launch of joint
initiatives with the establishment of the virtual Community as already explained.
The first phase was dedicated to understand and identify common interests
from the three communities (Living Labs, Smart Cities and Future Internet) in
order to bring these three constituents together and find common
understanding, language and needs. This first phase worked in parallel with the
Landscape and Roadmap development task whose main elements were defined
in the task 2.1 (D2.1).
The second phase was dedicated to agree on a common vision identified by the
task 2.1 (Landscape and Roadmap). This landscape represents the different
approaches and linkage of the three communities and the attempt to build a
dialogue and, of course, a common language to support new ways of
collaboration. This common language was studied and developed by identifying
synergies and complementarities in the different technical and methodological
approaches, pursuing the evolution towards integrated and holistic strategies
and approaches for cities innovation (that are appropriate to empower Smart
Cities based on Future Internet services). The landscape, that has been defined
in task 2.1 and that is evolving during the project execution, covers various
aspects including actor networks, methodologies and approaches, and current
practices and future visions.
This phase has worked in parallel with the further elaboration of the landscape
itself whose development is not only a precondition but also an additional
instrument to identify and shape possible ways of cooperation between the three
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The third phase focused on collaboration models and has been dedicated to the
sharing of common resources from the three constituencies that can be used for
joint and integrated projects. An example is the application of Living Labs
methodology in Future Internet experimentation. Such common assets include
methodologies, experimental facilities, user communities and other resources.
This phase builds upon the common vision and language as defined in the
previous steps as precondition. This phase has defined and has elaborated
mechanisms (partnerships, IPR and other) allowing the creation of synergies and
the engagement of constituencies benefiting from these synergies. Such
synergies include common Future Internet and Smart Cities projects across the
constituencies. This phase worked in parallel with the preparation and the
identification of common collaborative strategies among the communities and
within the smart cities network. An example is the development of smart cities
roadmaps (WP3).
The fourth and final phase of this process concerns the final establishment of
the Joint European Community for Future Internet and Open Innovation able to
put in place initiatives and common projects with the logic, the vision and the
language defined in the previous phases. This phase can finally work in parallel
with the elaboration of the collaborative strategies, able to be translated into
new additional initiatives for the Community potential activity.
Figure 1 below represents the already described and followed four step
approach:
Awareness and
Engagement
Consensus
Building on
Collaboration
Models
New Initiatives
and Follow Up
Community Initiative
Establishment
Initiative
Initiative
Four steps Community Establishment schema

Fig. 1: Four step approach to FIREBALL Community building
The four described phases are linked to four “primary” workshops as well as to
other, “secondary”, events per the following “tentative” match:

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Phase Primary workshop events Secondary events

1 Connected Smart Cities, 18th
November 2010, Helsinki
2 FIREBALL-FIRE workshop at FIA Living labs and Smart Cities

Ghent, December 16th 2010 workshop, Ghent, December 14th
2010
FISA Roadmapping workshop,
Brussels, 31st March 2011
3 FIREBALL-FIRE workshop at FIA FIREBALL workshop at eChallenges,
Budapest, May 2011 Florence, October 2011
FIREBALL workshop at ICE 2011 Open Days, 10-13 October 2011
Conference, June 2011, Aachen Connected Smart Cities workshop,
August 2011
Living Labs and Smart Cities. PICNIC
2011, Amsterdam, August 2011
4 Sustainable Smart Cities. Event ESoCE Net Forum, December 2011
organized by Eurocities and the Sustainable Smart Cities – Promoted
FIREBALL project, 25th January 2012 By Eurocities – 25th January 2012
Smart Citizens in Smart Cities and
Communities Co-Creating Future
Internet-Enabled Services, 22 May
2012
Table 1: FIREBALL Community Building events
2.4 COMMUNITY BUILDING: FROM COMMON INTEREST IDENTIFICATION TO

JOINT COMMUNITY FOR FUTURE INTERNET, LIVING LABS AND SMART
CITIES
This paragraph reports a summary of the steps followed for the establishment of
the joint Community between Future Internet, Living Labs and Smart Cities.
A first important step, originating the path for such community establishment
was the understanding and the identification of common interests and on the
foundation concepts behind the three communities (this was major part of the
first two period of the project in investigating common and synergies and
fostering awareness – M1 – M12).
Main foundation elements emerged for the three communities members where:
- Future Internet: new set of technologies that, integrated together within
a specific platform, are able to support a wide range of networked
applications. These technologies are partly based on the IoT paradigm
that foresees a networked interconnection of everyday objects,
sufficiently intelligent for communicating among them and with humans
over the Internet;
- Smart Cities: rich environments characterized by advanced services and
infrastructures (especially ultra fast wireless or wired connection) with a
high quality and availability of social capital (knowledge, people, social
infrastructure, traditions). They are able to provide benefits and high
quality of life to citizens with a strong balance between competitiveness
and sustainability. “Believe a city to be smart when investments in human
and social capital and traditional (transport) and modern (ICT)
communications infrastructure fuel sustainable economic growth and a
high quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, through
participatory governance” (A. Caragliu, C. del Bo, P. Nijkamp).

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- Living Labs: user driven and open innovation ecosystems able to involve
people or entire communities in the innovation process, starting from the
very early phase until the prototype testing phase and the final product.
From the foundation concepts of the four communities the synergies and contact
points of them was investigated and brought up:
- Future Internet and Smart Cities share the “platform” element as
common tool. This platform is necessary to develop applications and
manage services for citizens based on the Future Internet technologies
and able to provide that predictable models based on a wide set of data
collection. They relations are much more based on “Resource Aspects”.
- Future Internet and Living Lab have the “openness of the solution” as
mutual value. This element represents the availability and the openness
of the technology for the user involvement both in the implementation
and the utilization phase. They relations are much more based on
“Business Aspects”.
- Smart Cities and Living Lab have finally the “set of services and the
identification of the needs” as mutual values. These needs allow Living
Labs (as rich environments) to identify services and promote a high
quality of live to citizens. They relations are much more based on “Social
Aspect”.
An additional element that emerged after the investigation of synergies and

common interlinks between the three communities (that was underlined also
among the final results on this task) was the “openness”: the openness of
technologies, available data, models of cultural rich city environments (replicable
from city to city), test environments are among the common elements the three
communities share together.
The openness is linked also to the sustainability concept that is able to bring into
reality and maintain the three communities and is considered a concrete option
for the future evolution of the European society based on technology.
The establishment of such joint virtual community continued then on a step-by-

step approach based on the described Master Plan.
The activities were then directed in the involvement of targeted roles (M6 –
M12):
 Researchers and research organizations
 Living Labs
 Universities
 Public Stakeholders and government representatives
 Industry players in the Future Internet and ICT domains
 Other relevant stakeholders involved in the Smart City domain and in the
practical and theoretical development of such environments.
From this activity also the identification of main functions in support of the
establishment process was performed. The European Joint Community was
stimulated to:
 involve other organizations and their members in order to grow in
dimension;
 take part to workshop and events where its members met do discuss on
mutual cooperation;

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 Act as referring point within the Future Internet and Smart City domains
and involving Living Lab Network in this process;
 Cooperate with other networks (e.g. ENoLL, FIRE, Future Internet PPP)
and other key organizations (such as FIA, EIT, Eurocities, business
associations).
Some tools and instruments were then identified to allow, stimulate and facilitate
cooperation and interaction among the Future Internet, Smart Cities and Living
Lab domains (M12 – M18).
Among these tools and within the investigation on large number of organizations
or cities or testbeds, more or less independent, in the different communities and
the mechanisms and processes to stimulate and foster collaboration and “Access,
Sharing And Reuse Of Common Assets” catalogue was proposed and set up
within Ami@Work online Website.
A page on the Ami@Work online Community was created for FIREBALL and is
accessible at the following address:
www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/Fireball4smartcities
A first example of catalogue of Assets the Community organizations can share

and make available under specific Access Mechanisms and Conditions was
created reporting: ”Asset type”, ”Ownership”, ”IPR”, ”Access Conditions” and
”Access Mechanisms”.1
2.5 FIREBALL JOINT COMMUNITY FOR FUTURE INTERNET, LIVING LABS AND
SMART CITIES RESULTS
As results of the above described activities and intermediate achievements the
establishment of such joint Community was successfully obtained.
The Community, after having concentrated its attention on Future Internet and
test bed technologies, has attracted the interest of Eurocities with the final main
event (“How to become, sustain and evolve as a Smart city” - Eurocities,
Brussels, Belgium, 26 January 2012) that resulted in an important success (as
marked by feedback from EuroCities and detailed in chapter 4 in this document
for event report). The reinforcement of this additional link brought the final stone
to the establishment of FIREBALL Living Lab, Smart Cities and Future Internet
Joint Community.
As already explained in the introduction of this document FIREBALL T2.2 was not
conducted in to establish a new “FIREBALL” Community but in creating
collaboration links. The Community was then established in the form of links
among people and relations between Cities, Future Internet and Living Labs. This
approach was in line with the objective of flexibility and efficiency but also
effectiveness of starting from existing and well structured Communities and
building up concrete initiatives, joint proposals and event organizations.
The approach brought then the creation and reinforcement of direct and effective
links and relationships among people within the target base Communities and
the stimulation of new Knowledge, the organizations of events and common
initiatives and finally the support for new business opportunities and new
projects.
Example of results coming the established collaborations and links are:
1
www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/Fireball4smartcities/ServicesCatalogue
See also FIREBALL D1.3 - Operational Infrastructure of IPR Arrangements for access,
sharing and reuse of Common Assets.

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- Knowledge:
o White paper on User involvement for FIRE
o joint paper with the FIRE-initiatives of Smart Santander and TEFIS
“A Framework Integrating Living Labs with Future Internet
Experimental Platforms for the Co-creation of Services within
Smart Cities “ (ICE 2011 – Aachen edition)
o Contributing to a chapter on Smart Cities and Future Internet in
the FIA 2011 book, published in Spring 2011, see [7]. Fireball is
co-author with the chapter "Smart Cities and the Future Internet:
Towards Cooperation Frameworks for Open Innovation", This book
is based on the research that is carried out within the Future
Internet Assembly (FIA). FIA brings together over 150 research
projects that are part of the FP7 Challenge 1.
o Several Smart Cities stories planned for Journal of the Knowledge
Economy, Special Issue on SMART CITIES AND THE FUTURE
INTERNET IN EUROPE.
- Events and Initiatives (Social)
o Organising a Living Labs day during the Future Internet Week,
Ghent, December 2010.
o EIT ICTLabs, thematic area Digital Cities creating spearhead
project within area of Digital Cities.
o FI-PPP initiative and project FI-Ware as Living Labs interface in the
Scientific Advisory Board.
o CIP Save Energy (Alfamicro)
o ICE Conference, Aachen (June 2011)
o Connected smart Cities workshop, Helsinki (Aug 2011)
o PicNic, Urban Futures, Amsterdam (Sep 2011)
o Smart Cities of the Future, Brussels (Oct 2011)
o Future Internet Week and FIA-session, Poznan (Oct 2011)
o Smart Cities & Future Internet, Brussels (Jan 2012)
o User-driven Open Innovation Ecosystems go really local…across
borders, Brussels (May 2012)
o Participation in ICT 2010 to contribute to joint sessions with the
FIA and Living Labs communities.
o Participation in the FISA (Future Internet Support Actions) Road
mapping working group.
o Organising a joint workshop on Future Internet and Smart Cities
during the Future Internet week, Ghent, December 2010.
o FIA Budapest (May 2011)
o Regional Innovation through the Future Internet Public Private
Partnership (FI PPP), (Oct, 2011)
o FIA Aalborg, (May 2012)
- Project initiatives, joint opportunities:
o • Eurocities, as a platform for Smart Cities innovation,
www.eurocities.eu, more precisely the Knowledge Society Forum
(KSF)
o projects within the CIP ICT-PSP Smart Cities Portfolio

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 Peripheria-(Alfamicro) - Networked Smart Peripheral Cities

for Sustainable Lifestyles http://peripheria.eu
 EPIC-(IBBT) – EU Platform for Intelligent Cities -
http://www.epic-cities.eu/
 Open cities-(ESADE) - Open Innovation for Future Internet
Services in Smart Cities - http://www.opencities.net/
 SMARTIP - (Manchester) - Smart Metropolitan Areas
Realised Through Innovation & People -
http://www.manchesterdda.com/smartip/
 Life 2.0-(Aalborg Univ) - Geographical Positioning Services
to Support Independent Living and Social Interaction of
Elderly People http://www.life2project.eu/
 PEOPLE- (Anova) - Pilot Smart Urban Ecosystems
Leveraging Open Innovation for Promoting and Enabling E-
services - http://www.people-project.eu/portal/
 Smart Islands (Epsilon) - Smart webservices for
Mediterranean Islands - http://www.smart-islands.eu/
 CITADEL- on the move – high speed mobile apps
http://www.corve.be/docs/english/Citadel_on_the_Move_B
rochure.pdf
 City SDK- Smart City Service Developer Kit – open source
Smart City apps ecosystem
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/livinglab
s/docs/workshop_2012-01-
24/factsheets/citysdk_fact_sheet_2011-09-12.pdf
 Commons 4 Europe - Code Commons – collaborative web +
Bottom-Up-Broadband Commons
24/factsheets/Commons4Europe-Fact%20Sheet-
October2011.pdf
 iCity - Linked Open Apps Ecosystem to open up Innovation
in Smart Cities
24/factsheets/iCity_factsheet_28.10.11.pdf
 i-SCOPE - Interoperable Smart City Services through an
Open Platform for Urban Ecosystems
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/apps/projects/fact
sheet/index.cfm?project_ref=297284
 LiveCity - Live Video-to-Video supporting Interactive City
Infrastructure http://www.livecity-psp.eu/
o Other projects
 ODYSSEUS – (ESoCE-Net) Energy management in
neighbourhoods like urban areas to further optimize energy
consumption and cost by moving to innovative and smarter
dynamic holistic energy management systems and allowing
advanced control in neighbourhoods enabled by advances
in ICT. (in proposal phase)

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 3D Live – (Collaborative Engineering and EsoCE Net with

the participation of EXPERIMEADIA Fire facility, Oulu Smart
City and LLABS in Spain and France) - develop and
experiment a User Driven Mixed Reality and Immersive
(Twilight) platform connected to EXPERIMEDIA facilities in
order to investigate the Future Internet (FI) broadband
capacity to support Real-Time immersive situations as well
as evaluating both the Quality of Experience (QoE) and
Quality of Services. The main objective consists to explore
3D/Media technologies and IoT in real and virtual
environments in order to sense and experiment live
situations.
In structural terms the FIREBALL Community it is the new connected smart cities
group within Eurocities which takes over the fireball knowledge base and
continues to stimulate the interaction among the 3 communities of Living Labs,
Future Internet and Smart Cities.

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3 EVENT AND ACTIVITIES PLANNING

According to the objective of the Task 2.2 and in line with the activities and the
rational explained in paragraph 2, WP2 has outlined a series of events to involve
key organizations and the aggregation of the Community in Future Internet and
Open Innovation. This series of event was followed during the course of the
project as master plan for Future Internet, Smart Cities and Living Lab joint
community establishment.
The table below reports the planning schedule. The structure was built around
the four pilot workshops and was updated and aligned during the project extent.
The four pilot workshops were included in the first row and identified with
“Primary Event” diction.
Activities M1 – M6 M7 – M12 M13 – M18 M19 – M24

Primary FIA Ghent, May 2011: FIA Sustainable Smart
events December 16th Budapest Cities. Event
2010: Smart Cities June 2011: ICE organized by
and Future Internet Aachen Eurocities and the
Experimentation FIREBALL project,
25th January 2012
Secondary November 18th December 14th, FIREBALL December 2011:

Events 2010 (Helsinki): 2010: Living labs workshop at ESoCE Industry
Conference on and Smart Cities. eChallenges, Forum – Rome
Connected Smart Future Internet Florence, October
Cities towards Week, Ghent 2011 The Societal View
digital, sustainable FISA Roadmapping Open Days, 10-13 on Smart Cities -
and open workshop, October 2011 FIA 2012
communities Brussels, 31st Conference,
Connected Smart
March 2011 Aalborg, 10-11 May
Cities workshop,
August 2011 2012
Living Labs and
Smart Cities. Smart Citizens in
PICNIC 2011, Smart Cities and
Amsterdam, Communities Co-
August 2011 Creating Future
Internet-Enabled
Services – 22 May
2012
Table 2: FIREBALL Community Building events

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4 ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS REPORT CURRENT PERIOD (M19 – M24)

According to the rationale described in this document, this paragraph reports the
description and the activities within the task 2.2 framework.
This section reviews all the activities performed during the project. In this
document revision an update of the Communities activities up to M24 (since
October 2011) is reported illustrating the contribution to the overall of outcome
of the European Joint Community for Future Internet and Open Innovation
Establishment and run.
4.1 SUSTAINABLE SMART CITIES – PROMOTED BY EUROCITIES – 25TH

JANUARY 2012: PRIMARY WORKSHOP
EUROCITIES is the network of major European cities (founded

in 1986 by the mayors of six large cities: Barcelona,
Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan and Rotterdam) and
bringing together the local governments of more than 140 large
cities in over 30 European countries.
Through six thematic forums, a wide range of working groups, projects, activities
and events, it offers to its members a platform for sharing knowledge and
exchanging ideas.
The organization of this event was initiated, promoted and supported by the
FIREBALL Project.
4.1.1 Session background
Sustainable Smart Cities
The concept of “smart cities” has attracted considerable attention in the context
of urban development policies for creating more inclusive, sustainable and
competitive cities. At the same time the Internet as an enabler of city services is
becoming more and more important for urban development while cities are
increasingly assuming a critical role as drivers of innovation in such areas as
health, inclusion, environment and business as more people and devices will be
connected to the Future Internet than today. Cities and spaces will be connected
and smarter, exploiting the Future Internet to organise, optimise, and deliver on
promises to citizens, both as creative professionals and as ‘prosumers’. At the
same time the Future Internet will be, even more than now, a critical
infrastructure for the public sector, citizens and business and move from being
the Internet of technology into the Internet of content, things and people. In
order to tackle the real problems of cities new thinking is needed, which is
capable of grasping the big picture, including the interrelationships among all the
factors underlying them. Achieving systemic and sustainable innovation for the
future society and to make future cities a good place to live and work requires
much broader, more collaborative and innovative approaches.
4.1.2 Meeting Objective, Organization and Execution
In the workshop invited speakers from EUROCITIES, FIRE (Future Internet
Research & Experimentation), the Smart City Portfolio CIP projects and ENoLL
(European Network of Living Labs) presented their views and results to open up
the discussion on shaping the future ‘Smart Cities’ agenda, starting from the
needs of the cities, their citizens and partner organisations. In addition the
workshop created new linkages and enhance cooperation between different
constituencies interested in Smart City development in order to ‘operationalise’
policies for future problem solving and strategic actions.
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- discuss the main issues that are being addressed by cities that want to
become smarter, including which solutions cities are trying to develop to
address the “real” problems and to demonstrate some initial examples of
Future Internet in the context of Smart Cities’ needs and demands;
- shape the agenda of issues regarding Smart Cities and Future Internet by
opening this up for wider engagement in the creation of a Smart City
roadmap;
- discuss visions and perspectives in the context of Smart Cities of the future
and how these might best be put into practice;
- develop a knowledge exchange between cities, Living Labs and the FIRE
research community about developments to date and future plans for new
use cases, test beds and local initiatives.
4.1.3 Programme
Session 1 Opening session: Towards Smarter Cities
09.00 – 10.30
Introduction by invited speakers from the European

Moderator: Commission, Eurocities, CIP ICT-PSP portfolio, Fireball
and guests
Michael Nilsson,
Coordinator of
FIREBALL, - Welcome and agenda by Michael Nilsson,
Coordinator of FIREBALL,
- Horizon 2020 & EC Innovation policy and Smart
Cities EIPby Director Mario Campolargo, European
Commission, Directorate F: Emerging Technologies
and Infrastructures. DG INFSO.
- The importance of a Smart Cities agenda by Ms
Ingrid Goetzl, Eurocities , Chair of Knowledge
Society Forum, Head of International ICT Affairs,
City of Vienna
- The Senseable City – part 1 by Director Carlo
Ratti, MIT , (invited presentation)
- The Smart City working group by Dave Carter,
Manchester and Chair CIP portfolio
Roundtable discussion 30 minutes

Session 2 Challenges for cities in becoming smarter:
10.30 – 11.30 current practice, issues, solutions
Moderator: This session introduces the current issues, problems

and challenges which cities are addressing in
Dave Carter,
“becoming smarter cities”, told by the cities
themselves, as a starting point for improved
Smart City CIP portfolio knowledge sharing:
chair
- MANCHESTER - Dave Carter ( Head of Manchester
Digital Development Agency & chair of Smart
Cities Portfolio Working Group)
- AMSTERDAM – Audrie van Veen (Amsterdam
Innovation Motor)

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- LISBON - Joana Fernandes (Project Coordinator,

Lisbon E-Nova)
- HELSINKI - Jarmo Eskelinen (CEO, Forum Virium,
Helsinki)
- BARCELONA - Julia Lopez Ventura (Project
Manager & Technician, International Cooperation
at Barcelona City Council)
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break and exhibition
Session 3 Opportunities for creating smarter cities

12.00 – 13.15
This session brings a spectrum of topics to the

Moderator: foregrounds which are currently being worked on in
various EU projects. Special emphasis on results from
Pekka Sauri,
the FIREBALL project. The FIRE relevance for cities.
The Smart Cities CIP ICT-PSP projects will also
Deputy Mayor of address their relevance for cities.
Helsinki city Topics includes:
- Technologies for smarter cities.
- Promises of the Future Internet and how to realize
them in cities
- Future Internet empowered Innovation culture of
the city
Speakers , (invited presentations , Maximum: 10

minutes each)
- “The Senseable City – part 2” Director Carlo Ratti,
MIT
- “Future Internet and Smart Cities: New
approaches to Innovation. Results of FIREBALL” –
Hans Schaffers FIREBALL
- “Sensor Technologies for Smart City services” –
Jose Munoz The Smart Santander project
- “Community Networks – Neutrality or Hostage?” –
Malcolm Matson, The CONFINE project
- “PERIPHERIA Challenge: social innovation for
sustainable lifestyles”- Alvaro Oliveira, ENoLL
president and the Peripheria project
- “Digital life 2.0” - Albena Mihovska, Life 2.0
project
- “Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI PPP)
for Smart Cities“ - Ana Garcia the Concord project
and ENoLL
- “European Platform for Intelligent Cities”- Wim
Vanobberghen IBBT and the EPIC project
13.15– 14.15 Lunch and exhibition
Session 4 Towards smarter cities: policies, approaches,

14.15 – 16.15 actions
This break-out session is addressing the issues cities

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Moderator/facilitator: are experiencing with a forward looking view. What

are the innovation roadmaps of cities? What are the
Dave Carter, actions, initiatives to be taken in next few years?
How could policies support such roadmaps, at EU,
Smart City CIP portfolio national, regional and urban level? This session will
chair see participants split into multi-disciplinary groups to
discuss:
- Roadmaps towards smarter cities: interactive
session
- Horizontal issues in the roadmaps: pilots for
creating network effects, innovation culture,
infrastructure, bottom-up empowerment etc.
- Policies to stimulate the implementation of city
roadmaps, at urban, regional, national and EU
level
16.15 – 17.00 Panel - Conclusions and outlook
Panel of people from the previous sessions,
Moderator/facilitator: representing the Commission, Eurocities, Fire, and
Living Labs.
Roberto Santoro,
The questions will be answered by the panelists and

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by the participants. Discussion on:
- Understanding: The Smartness in Smart Cities:
what progress have we made today in
understanding the substantial elements
characterizing city`s programs that have decided
to become smarter.
- Experiencing: Are there Initial cities
experimentation that show the way (reference
practice)? Innovation Culture, FI Infrastructure,
the Innovation process
- Building a Smarter Future: Strengthening
interlinks among Cities, Future Internet and Living
Lab Communities. Creating joint working groups
on critical horizontal issues. Suggested groups
form the workshop?
4.1.4 Main discussions

Session 1: Towards Smarter Cities
Mario Campolargo (Director, European Commission. DG INFSO/F, Emerging
Technologies and Infrastructures) opened the one-day conference and was very
pleased to see the representatives of the three different communities, the
(smart) cities, the living labs and the community of the future internet, namely
the experts of making cities ‘smarter’.
Cities as the platforms to integrate and test new concepts
Recently the Commission (Barroso II) launched the EU2020-strategy aiming to
smart, sustainable and inclusive growth for Europe, where cities play a crucial
role as they are responsible for most of the CO2 emission, energy consumption
etc. but at the same time with the large amount of people and resources they
become a very important platform and a vehicle for important policy measures in
order to obtain the objectives of the EU2020.

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Citizenship engagement
Citizens also represent a very powerful factor themselves. In order to cities to
become smarter and learn by its citizens that are knowledgeable and reflective
about the society, engage and participate and more importantly exploit the
wealth of infrastructures and data made available by often universities and
research centers. In addition, when talking about data, it should be kept in mind
that it does not only include sensors and internet of things and the technology
side but also social networks, allowing these new mash up applications to thrive.
Campolargo reminded relating to open data, the digital and knowledge economy
brings about transformative role to the citizens. Indeed in the digital economy as
the process of wealth and value creation transforming the power relations, as
these are no longer reserved for large public nor private organisations.
Future Internet for Smart Cities
European Commission long-term strategy for innovation in ICT manifests in
several different initiatives that are relevant to the Smart Cities agenda such as
the Future Internet Research & Experimentation (FIRE) and other initiatives on
FI research under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). The aim has also been
to bring about more take up of innovation instead of the demonstration and
experimentation activities, reflecting clearly in the initiatives funded under the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and more recently
the Future Internet Public Private Partnership.
The FI PPP starts in the early identification of the most promising use case areas
and moving over to promote the testbeds. The coordination of the whole FI PPP
programme is done by the project CONCORD, a project comprising of relevant
actors in the community of Living Lab, assuring the central component in this
exercise, the encouragement and involvement of the user communities around
the different use cases to develop applications that are of high impact for
society.
Further more, the Commission has the intention to continue to support the
convergence of the technical dimension of the FIRE-initiative (technical facilities)
and the Living Labs methodologies of real-life environments where best practices
of open innovation are applied.
2014-2020 Financial Framework and opportunities for funding for Smart Cities
Campolargo presented the financial framework put forward by the EC in June
2011, where funds from Cohesion policy (instruments for smart specialization),
Connecting Europe facility and Research and Innovation will all play a crucial
role. Cohesion funds in the next framework will pay a particular emphasis on
among other things in research and innovation and ICT-technology.
The Connecting Europe facility will focus on the completion of three objectives 1)
transport core network, 2) energy priority corridors 3) key digital infrastructure
to combine the market place instruments and EU direct support to optimize
impact.
From the point of the view of the Commission, most crucial in the upcoming
funding period is to better understand the needs of the regional and local actors,
piloting realistic innovative solutions to address the grand challenges with a
comprehensive and integrate approach and to ensure that these solutions are
taken up by the citizens themselves. Thus, the smart cities are the ideal
framework to put Future Internet technologies and advancements in to a context
and to further closely tie together research and innovation policies with regional
deployment.
Session 2: Challenges for cities in becoming smarter: current practice,
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Dave Carter (Head of MDDA, Manchester City Council & Chair of Smart Cities
Portfolio Working Group) opened the session. 5 core cities, Manchester, Lisbon,
Amsterdam, Barcelona and Helsinki had been asked to provide 5 slides on their
challenges and achievements and next steps.
Three year ago the cities had been brought together, with the future internet
and living labs communities to come together as the FIREBALL project. The aim
was to make cities more aware of the potential around the future internet
agenda, and to make researchers and academics more aware of the cities
themselves, and the nature of their issues and problems. These connections
have acted as a catalyst for engagement, awareness and real delivery across a
number of European smart cities.
Manchester is the largest city in the North of England, with 500k population but
2.5m in the Greater Manchester region. However with no regional government,
this metropolis is covered by 10 autonomous councils.
Building on the city’s long history of social and community engagement
Manchester has aimed to involve citizens in the development of smart city
projects. It was the first place in the UK to join the Living Lab movement and it
have been working for 25 years to convince politicians and urban planners that
digital is the new “real estate” of the city and that digital and creative were key
to regenerating urban economies. Despite our strengths in creative industries
we’re often behind other countries in terms of infrastructure. Yet Manchester
continues to be 2nd biggest digital sector in the UK after London, and even
stronger in terms of bottom-up social innovation, as you might expect from the
home of the Co-operative movement.
In order to maintain its key to create digital infrastructure and in the UK
incumbent Telcos have proved very slow to this. To mitigate this it has been
involved in various awareness raising and advocacy at a national level, but with
local lead aiming for “infinite bandwidth/zero latency.”
The risk adverse nature of city administrators and internal ICT/comms means
there remains a need to educate. Clearly, the business models around investing
in digital infrastructure are proving inadequate to the challenges. In difficult
financial times, new business models need to help enable digital infrastructure,
green ICT and digital inclusion, as these are all long term investments in the
“smart city” and the “smart citizen.”
Audrie van Veen (Amsterdam Innovation Motor –AIM-) refers to the entire
metropolitan area. The starting point for the smart city initiative in the city is
technology.
Until a few years ago, urban planning was far more important, but now its
definitely digital and green visions and these visions for developing the city also
need to include the 3rd sector and to be inclusive and of value to all residents.
In 2012 Amsterdam has a large amount of fibre to the home.
Within the city there have been small scale pilots around “smart grid”
technologies and connectivity provided to public buildings. In terms of reducing
carbon the important thing is to involve citizens and get them to change their
attitudes.
An example would be “Climate Street” where a neighbourhood is made greener
through an initiative started by the shops in a particular street. 140 shops
agreed to become more sustainable with 46 ambassadors involved to showcase
better ways of being green. Things such as better waste collection, changes to
public lighting, smart meters and smart plugs were initiated. As an example one
record shop did a test with the public about which type of lighting was best for
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A 2nd example was a smart working centre, based on examples elsewhere in the
world working with CISCO. The initial centre was the wrong business model and
an evaluation was used to do it better the next time. The location of the building
was wrong for the businesses in it, being next to a main road and outside of the
city. Close connectivity to the city centre was important. There are now 100
locations in the Netherlands which have been a commercial success with this
model, which has also worked in South Korea, and is now happening in France
and Belgium.
Co-developed smart meters - working with a local housing association (the West
Orange project) were installed in a typical Amsterdam quarter. Richer people
were enthusiastic but poorer people were less so. The user friendliness of the
meter system needs then to improve.
By getting the meters into schools there was far more success, with
schoolchildren encouraging their parents. The social component of all these
projects is therefore vital.
Amsterdam also has a health lab working with 20 or so elderly people –
providing sensors (non-invasive in their testing) in the rooms where they are.
Amsterdam perceives more collaboration going forward.
Jarmo Eskelinen (CEO, Forum Virium).
In Helsinki the key thing is to come up with better solutions for urban living. In
order to do this they have “Two baskets” – in one, the infrastructure, and in the
second, the services using the infrastructure.
Helsinki has got good coverage for green energy and broadband. The hard side
is in place – but more work needs to be done on the “transformation” side –
supporting people through adoption of new services. The key thing here is to
have an open approach for service creation.
A city – whether its buildings, logistics, or people coming and going – is never
fixed, is always in a state of change and never finished. Because of this change
you can’t use reductionism methods - or come up with a single platform solution
to the “urban operating systems.”
Cities are in barely managed statuses of chaos – not a machine, but an
organism, and therefore we can’t design city solutions as a machine. Hence the
need for an open approach, where the developers don’t know what people will do
with the services and places they put in place. In virtual spaces this is vital.
For Helsinki city there is the need to be as open as possible. A sweet point where
people can do things in daily lives with these skills and these tools and these can
now be linked to the network of the city was reached. As Clay Shirky has said,
when things become technologically boring is when they become sociologically
interesting.
Smart city tools can be used by the normal citizen without training or
experience. Just as with any company the challenge in a city is whether the
directors are able to lead the process of transformation – to help the city renew
itself.
The city of Helsinki ICT strategy is built on:
- Basic ICT
- Business intelligence
- Management of information
It is a 3 way relationship between the city and citizens and companies – so a city
platform using open data, open access and open interfaces are the only way to
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Ways of enabling this include Helsinki region openshare – sharing public and
some private data in a coordinated way – and through having one of best
functioning clearing houses for opendata in Europe (was reinforced by a great
experience of activity – i.e. 140 applications were produced within “Apps for
Finland.”)
Coming up, they are leading on the CitySDK project – which is to go further than
open data, thinking of the city as a services development aggregator, opening
data, interfaces, accesses to services and developers. The project will work
across transport, tourism and citizen feedback across 7 European cities
simultaneously.
Finally it was underlined as better harmonisation of data and APIs will help open
up markets to provide better businesses and better services.
Joana Fernandes (Project Coordinator, Lisbon E-Nova).
Lisbonenergy agency works closely with the municipality. Lisbon’s role is
important acting as a bridge between Europe, Africa and South America. It is a
popular tourist place, and though a city of half a million people is losing
population. It is not a business or financial centre so wants to develop as an
international hub for entrepreneurship and innovation.
Citizen distrust in local authorities and growing social needs creates challenges –
but also opportunities, that ICT can help with. Citizens have a voice and want
ways to use it. Therefore it is expected that the citizens become a partner and
co-producer of new ideas.
Its activity reflects that including such projects as a participatory budget that can
lead to social innovation.
The Living lab is around energy efficiency through smart metering to induce
behaviour change.
2011’s participatory budgeting led to a co-working space being developed for

creative in the important object of having entrepreneurs and innovators in a
common sharing space. There is a Lisbon fab(rication) lab . Students are also
asked to involve themselves in looking at solutions to the city’s problems.
Lisbonenergy is also looking to implement solutions around sustainability
mobility - electrical vehicle charging; real time information about public
transport, car sharing scheme/structure – sustainability etc.
Joan Batlle
2008 internal reorganisation of public bodies in Barcelona was a moving towards
on how the whole cities could be better organized (“a long trip with a long way
to go”).
There is a reason why cities exist and Barcelona’s approach to the “smart city” is
to recognise that. It needs to be a holistic approach that recognises the city’s
complexity.
Years of experience running different projects have shown this complexity and
have demonstrated how citizens and companies are using the city – and its
different areas, from Greenfield to brownfield sites.
The new government came with a mantra – that Barcelona has to be a self
sufficient city with services accessed by the citizens, and that sharing services
via high speed connectivity is important. The city has a 30 year vision and a
multiskilled, multiagency approach is needed as approach to address this
challenge. The city has then to understand how people add value to the land –
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All this process is now been studied also in Living Lab environment involving
citizens more in the process and making experimentation in the “real world”
(breaking out of these city silos).
4.1.5 Target Audience
The event was organised as cooperation between FIREBALL, EUROCITIES and
FIRE together with different projects in the area of Smart Cities including Cities,
Future Internet Research and Open innovation ecosystems such as Living labs.
4.1.6 Outcomes
The main session related to the FIREBALL Project was the last panel with the
interaction between Commission, Eurocities, FIRE and Living Labs.
The Panel, with the three main listed questions was aimed at identifying the
elements, the activities and the characteristics that make a City a Smart-City;
the recent and current experience and what has exactly been done to make
Cities smart and upon which model (Understanding, Experiencing and Building).
In addition to this panel three working groups established from the “Towards
smarter cities: policies, approaches, action” session discussed the main topics
with the following outcomes:
- SMEs low involvement and maturity to implement other city practices
- Complexity for Smart Cities environment to be maintained
- Needed collaboration among all other actors / stakeholders: Living Labs,
incubators, Cities etc.
The interesting result from the discussion of the panel was in the establishment
of working-groups transversal to these thematic and able to study models for
Smart City spread and development.
The first one is based on the need of benchmarking: a holistic benchmarking
working group (not sector specific based) is then considered. An overall model
capable of addressing indicators and maturity for Smart Cities would be suitable
to understand and study the characteristic learning from the success experiences
of today’s example.
The second working-group is related to the need of developing Smart Cities
services. A Multilayer openness group, inspired to the openness of open
source software (able to support that vitality needed to stimulate services
development) has been considered. The multilayer is based on a multiple level
leveraging open source software on its base and extending it (at different level
and with various accessible mechanisms) to facilities and testbeds and policies.
Third and final working group is related to Service Provision. In this case the
sensible aspect is linked to the duality between innovative and reliable services:
Smart Cities are more willing to adopt reliable services while testbeds and
experimentation in such domain are more innovation oriented.
Reliability
Innovation
This duality, that in case of real Smart City environment tends to be

overbalanced to Reliability, could be reconciled in identifying Smart Cities as
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The duality can be interpreted also in putting together the “Soft” part of the
Smart City environments (Innovation culture, processes, education etc.) and the
hardware part (sensors, technology, adoption solutions etc.).
Presentations are available at: http://www.fireball4smartcities.eu/
4.2 ESOCE INDUSTRY FORUM 2011 – SECONDARY WORKSHOP

Open Innovation and Service Product development for SMEs
The Industrial Forum 2011 was a two days event:
The 5th of December program is organized into two sessions:
- a morning session, built around two main panels of representatives from
major international enterprises, SME's Clusters, Professional Associations and
Policy makers, providing their own view on the emerging practices for
Domain Networks to support Industry and SMEs Services;
- an afternoon session, organised in 2 parallel workshops, introducing
Innovation Platform typologies, one on "Domain Living Lab Networks -
Instruments and Service in support to SMEs" and the second focusing on
"Transversal Critical Themes for Living Labs".
The 6th of December was dedicated to the Match Making of Living Lab and SMEs.
SMEs holding a Business idea will chair dedicated Multi-stakeholder Tables to
identify practical steps forward for the launch of joint initiatives and to discuss
and negotiate terms and conditions for conducting reality checks trials. The
event will be closed by a plenary session, aiming at summarising findings and
discussing opportunities for launching joint initiatives.
http://www.esoce.net
4.2.1 Session Background
By 2020 most services and products will be developed with User Driven Open
Innovation Approaches and most virtual-real Products/Services will be co-
created with the contribution of Virtual Professional Communities. In such
context innovation processes will evolve in a way that not only Living Labs and
Testbeds but also individuals and SMEs become key innovation players. Indeed
more than three-quarters of executives said they believe the greatest
innovations of the 21st century will be those that address human needs, such as
improved health and environmental quality, better energy security and increased
access to education. But it's clear that innovation for profit alone simply won't
cut it today. Second, individuals and smaller enterprises can be just as important
to the innovative process as the big guys (75 percent said these groups will be
as innovative as large companies in the 21st century). In such context ESoCE
Net Industrial Forum is please to respond to the call of the Innovation Union
Initiative: "It is urgent that we all do everything we can do to achieve Innovation
Union" One initiative to pursue this general objective is to create Domain Living
Lab Networks supporting SMEs to take part to the innovation of Europe. The
approach is to demonstrate how and at which level this exchange of experience
can be useful for identifying what could be shared among network members in
terms of resources and best practices as well as potential synergies within each
Domain Living Lab Network.
4.2.2 Programme
09:00 Introduction and Vision 2020, Roberto Santoro ESoCE Net
President
09:30 Open Innovation Ecosystems addressing major societal
challenges and SMEs

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Panel of Regional Agencies, Industry and Academia

- Global Business Creation in Action: Case Global Faculty
Partners for Problems Worth Solving, Marko Seppä,
University Alliance Jyväskylä University, Finland
- Design Innovation: promoting the participation of all people
in the building of our society on an equal basis, Francesc
Aragall, Design for All Foundation, Spain
- Growing Innovation for SMEs, Caroline Gray-Stephens,
Scottish Enterprise, Scotland
- Living Lab Networks Addressing Societal challenges:
Sustainable Development, Ageing Society, Inclusive
Participation, Artur Serra, Citilab, Spain
- Boosting SMEs participation in Research and Innovation,
Julián Seseña, MaPEeR, Spain
- End-to-End Collaboration for SMEs and Living Labs, Peter
Hofbauer, Capperinno, Austria
- Ideas Contest: stimulating entrepreneurship for Service
Innovation, Thorsten Rudolf, Azo, Germany
11:45 SMEs Reality Check Service - Services innovation for satellite
downstream market. The GNSS Living Lab Prize
Finalists from GNSS Living Lab Prize 2011 and Regional Prize
winners
14:30 Workshop “Domain Living Lab Networks" – Pilots in action
1 Living Labs active in the domain showing cases and
best practices in support to SMEs
Workshop “Transversal Critical Themes for Living Labs”
2 Workshop Introduction: Characterizing Transversal
Critical Themes for Living Labs
17:30 Concluding plenary session
Summarising findings and discussing opportunity of joint
initiatives
4.2.3 Outcomes
The event presented also the FIREBALL project especially, among the results,
the “Access, sharing and reuse of Common Assets”. The access of these assets
was framed in the thematic domain network discussion where the need for
specific themes for Living Labs in ICT related domain can be a key for future
innovation opportunities and project partner establishment.
4.3 THE SOCIETAL VIEW ON SMART CITIES – WORKSHOP AT THE FIA

2012 CONFERENCE, AALBORG, 10-11 MAY 2012 – OTHER EVENTS
Because of the handover of FIREBALL vision and results, and in order to to
continue the relations with Smart City, Living Labs and FIRE communities,
FIREBALL took the initiative to propose a 2-hour workshop at the FIA
Conference, Aalborg, 10-11 May 2012.
Organizers:
- Hans Schaffers, ESoCE Net & Aalto University (workshop coordinator)
- Khaldoun Al Agha, ICT Labs

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- Roberto Gimenez, HI-Iberia

- Dolores Ordóñez, Prodigy Consultores.
4.3.1 Focus and main workshop topic

Focus of this workshop is on the societal dimension of smart cities, in particular
on social innovation and participation platforms enabled by the Internet. The
workshop is based on the following three sets of issues and questions:
1) How do we understand the “societal view on smart cities”. How can societal
problems and issues in cities be addressed through Internet-enabled social
networks and social innovation platforms and which examples can be
presented. How could social networks act as laboratory of social innovation.
How can we understand the evolving innovation ecosystems of smart cities.
2) What are the new citizen-centric social innovation platforms that are
emerging. How can these models be implemented in practice based on open
networks and open data. How may the Future Internet enable social
innovation platforms that enhance participation, wellbeing and sustainability
in smart cities.
3) What are possible partnerships, collaboration frameworks and business
models for platforms of change stimulating social innovation and the
development towards smarter cities. What could be the role of “living labs” or
other innovation models or ecosystems to create, guide and manage such
platforms.
During previous FIA meetings in Valencia, Ghent, Budapest and Poznan, the
theme of Smart Cities and the Future Internet has received a lot of attention e.g.
in the workshops organized by the FIREBALL and FIRE STATION projects. Smart
Cities are in the heart of policy initiatives such a the Digital Agenda, whereas the
FP7 as well as the CIP ICT-PSP and Future Internet PPP programmes are
supporting a range of projects that relate to smart cities in connection with living
labs, Internet of Things and the Future Internet.
In recent years, many cities have initiated “smart city” initiatives focusing on the
socio-economic development and regeneration of cities, and building on the
deployment of broadband infrastructure and the piloting of advanced applications
in societal domains such as healthcare, government services, energy efficiency
and mobility and transport. As the FIREBALL coordinating action project
(www.fireball4smartcities.eu) has investigated, many of these initiatives and
strategies demonstrate a top down orientation and seeking a balance with
bottom up initiatives. Increasingly, the notions of citizen empowerment,
participative urban planning, and open collaborative innovation gain more
attention in the strategies of transforming towards “smarter cities”, bringing the
societal dimension of innovation and urban development to the forefront.
Empowering citizens and facilitating the creation of collaboration networks and
communities may help cities becoming real “agents of change”.
In this context, an emerging topic which is explored in this workshop is the use
and further evolution of the Internet as a common platform for social innovation,
fostering socio-economic development, participation and change towards
smarter cities. The underlying idea of social innovation is grounded in citizen co-
creation and strengthening participatory capabilities to solve problems of societal
nature. To boost social innovation, it is important to consider not only the level
of policies and available technologies. The most important thing to consider is
the needs and aspirations of the citizens and their requirements. Only when
citizens feel identified with the technologies and services offered, will it be
possible to accomplish the objective to engage them in shaping innovation and
urban development processes.

FIREBALL D2.2
4.3.3 Format of the workshop

The workshop is structured in three sessions plus a final panel session of 30
minutes. Each session focuses on a particular set of questions. Sufficient time
will be reserved for interaction with the audience.
Invited speakers will include experts and practitioners in the field of smart cities
and social innovation, who are able to share their practical experience, including
representatives of:
- Cities, involved in smart city strategies and social innovation
- National and international projects and programmes addressing social
innovation enabled by the Internet, the role of living labs in social innovation
etc
- Agencies and other organizations including non-profits and academics
involved in Future Internet, Smart Cities and Social Innovation.
4.3.4 Programme
The workshop consists of four parts which are the following:
Part 1: Societal View on Smart Cities (50’)

This session introduces the concept and actual issues of social innovation in the
context of the societal view on smart cities. Keynote speakers will discuss:
- Examples of societal problems in cities that can be improved through
Internet-enabled social networks and social innovation platforms;
- Regeneration of urban areas and the role of platforms for change and social
innovation;
- How social networks act as laboratories of social innovation in smart cities.
- How can we understand the evolving innovation ecosystems of smart cities.
Keynote Speakers:
- Markku Markkula, Committee of the Regions / Aalto: Social Innovation in
Cities and Regions
- Iñigo de la Serna, Mayor of Santander: Building the smart city relying on the
social innovation
- Alice Casey, NESTA: Social Innovation and the Internet: approaches and
results from NESTA programmes
Part 2: Citizen-Centric Social Innovation Platforms Enabled by the Internet (25’)

This session addresses the emergence and role of social innovation platforms
enabled by the Internet.
- What are the new citizen-centric social innovation platforms that are
emerging;
- How can these models be enabled and implemented in practice based on the
Internet;
- What are the opportunities provided by open networks and open data to
address social innovation;
- What is the future role of the Internet to enable social innovation platforms
that enhance participation, wellbeing and sustainability in smart cities.
Speakers:

FIREBALL D2.2
- Zoheir Sabeur, University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre: User

behavior driven innovation platforms
- Dolores Ordóñez, Prodigy Consultores: Destination Hub: Holistic analysis of
needs and demands of Smart Cities and Smart Citizens
- Sara Guttiérrez, Chief Officer of new technologies for Police at Madrid
Municipality: Social and Legal Aspects Related to Citizens Empowering
Part 3: Realizing smart city strategies for social innovation (25’)

This session focuses on how to realize in practice the smart cities strategies and
platforms for social innovation.
- What are possible partnerships (public and private sector), collaboration
frameworks and business models (e.g. based on pre-commercial
procurement) for platforms for stimulating social innovation and the
development towards smart cities;
- What could be the role of “living labs” or other models of innovation
ecosystems to create and manage such platforms;
- Practical results in realizing Internet-enabled social innovation and lessons
for the future.
Speakers :
- Dave Carter, MDDA: Urban Regeneration, digital development strategies and
the Knowledge Economy in Manchester.
- Hans Schaffers, ESoCE Net & Aalto University: Empowering citizens to
realizing smart cities, results from FIREBALL Smart city case studies
Part 4: A Plenary discussion / panel (20’)

This session will discuss the positions in the previous three sessions and draw
conclusions with a view towards Future Internet and Smart Cities related
initiatives as well as Horizon 2020.
Moderator: Hans Schaffers, ESoCE Net & Aalto University
4.4 SMART CITIZENS IN SMART CITIES AND COMMUNITIES CO-CREATING

FUTURE INTERNET-ENABLED SERVICES – 22 MAY 2012 – OTHER
EVENTS
This interactive conference is the premier European event of this Spring on Open
Innovation for Future Internet in Smart Cities and Communities. It offers you as
public organisation, SME, corporation, academic, and creative citizen a unique
chance to get involved in shaping Europe's user-driven open innovation
ecosystems.
5 European projects and organisations bring you an exciting range of world-class
keynotes, concrete results and demos, and many interactive sessions:
- Launch of smart care, energy, manufacturing and media networks that
support cross-border Living Lab testing by innovative SMEs
- Results of user-driven open innovation in the Public Sector, creating Future
Internet Services for Smart Cities
- Launch of the European Smart City and Future Internet roadmap
- Results of the 6th Wave of new members of the Network, and facilitate a
range of new proposal development opportunities

FIREBALL D2.2
- Launch of the European Cities Community Research and Innovation Initiative

- Facilitation of a range of new proposal development opportunities
This 2-day event is organised in collaboration with the European Commission,

DG Information Society and Media.
Organising projects and networks: APOLLON – OPEN CITIES – FIREBALL – ENoLL
- EUROCITIES
4.4.2 Programme
Day 1 – 22 May
09:00 - USER-DRIVEN OPEN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS
- Opening of the Conference
- 1st Keynote by Mario Campolargo, Director “Emerging Technologies and
Infrastructures”, DG INFSO, European Commission
- 2nd Keynote on Open Innovation
- Key messages by leaders of APOLLON, OPEN CITIES, FIREBALL, ENoLL,
EUROCITIES
11:30 - LOCAL SMEs - INNOVATING ACROSS BORDERS

- Keynote by Frank Bekkers, CEO Mobile Vikings: “From local Living Lab to a
10 Million € Business in 4 years”
- How to innovate across borders - for SMEs and Living Labs
- Business impact for SMEs of cross-border open innovation
- Launch of the Living Lab Knowledge Centre
- Launch of the Cross-Border Living Lab Marketplace
- Stakeholder Round Table
- APOLLON legacy: Cross-Border Innovation towards the Future Internet
(Smart City Portfolio)
- Handover of APOLLON results to European Network of Living Labs
14:00 - SMART CARE, ENERGY, MANUFACTURING AND SOCIAL MEDIA –

ACROSS BORDERS
Teh state-of-the art in cross-border innovation and how to build new projects in
these domains:
- Homecare and Independent Living
- Energy Efficiency
- eManufacturing
- eParticipation and Social Media
16:30 - SMART OPEN CITIES AND THE FUTURE INTERNET (FIREBALL SESSION)
- Smart City Landscape, Cases, Policies, by Hans Schaffers (ESoCE Net)
- Smart City Roadmap, by Dave Carter (MDDA)
Day 2 – 23 May
09:00 - LIVING LABS ADDED VALUE FOR THE EUROPEAN INNOVATION SYSTEM
Opening and Keynote
FIREBALL D2.2
09:30 - LIVING LABS, SMART CITIES AND FUTURE INTERNET - THE WAY
FORWARD
- Smart Cities and Living Lab Opportunities in the Future Internet PPP
- Living Labs Best Practice Cases and Impact Assessment
- Connected Smart Cities Network
- Role of Living Labs in Regional Strategies
11:00 - LIVING LABS, HORIZON 202 AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS

Stakeholders round table
12:05 - ENoLL 6th WAVE RESULTS CEREMONY
ENoLL 6thWave Results Ceremony, jointly with the Danish EU Presidency and the
Directorate General of Information Society and Media
Throughout the conference, a demo and exhibition run of User-driven Open
Innovation Ecosystem projects and results

FIREBALL D2.2
5 CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK AFTER END OF THE PROJECT

In conclusion to the FIREBALL task 2.2 and summarizing the intermediate steps
this report concludes the establishment of FIREBALL Community is a successful
achievement of the project in the way the created and reinforced links between
the different key organization has brought concrete results in knowledge, events
and initiatives but also projects and business opportunities fields.
The flexible and non conventional form this Community has been established
(again related to the characteristics of Future Internet, Living Lab and Smart
Cities communities) has resulted in more efficient and proactive result than
physically aggregating the original base Communities with the results (papers
and book chapters, project proposals and new initiatives, events organized)
reported in ph 2.5 of this documents.
Having brought together the 3 communities during the FIREBALL project it is
important that continuing dialogue takes place to enable future collaborations.
On a practical level there are two key recommendations from the smart cities
community around how these relationships can be fostered going forward.
Firstly, Eurocities Knowledge Society Forum remains a key forum for the smart
cities. 2 of its 4 working groups are currently around Open Data and Smart Cities
and there is a possibility that Internet Security may be proposed as a 3rd
working group during 2012. These working groups are committed to working
with the cities who are involved, and developing useful tools and reports for their
adoption by the smart cities, as well as in collaborating on new projects. The
outcomes of the FIREBALL project, and subsequent work of the CIP Smart Cities
Portfoilio Working Group will be used to inform the wider city membership via
these working groups. Going forward Eurocities KSF meetings are going to be
more focussed on the working groups providing an enhanced forum for
dissemination and collaboration.
Secondly, the smart cities community are very interested in the possibilities of
taking part in future collaborative projects where new and emerging technologies
can be implemented in a real world scenario. From the January joint
communities event it was recommended that each of the communities provides
an opportunity within their own events and dissemination for continued
engagement between the communities. For the smart cities it means inviting FI
or Living Lab leaders to speak on relevant topics to their audience, and for LL
and FI communities, it means continuing to engage with “smart cities” by
identifying those assets, tools, resources and technologies that are of most
benefit to the smart cities (e.g. through illustrative use cases). A good example
is the inclusion of smart cities representatives to the 2012 Future Internet
Assembly in Aalborg in May 2012. FIREBALL has facilitated many of these
relationships and with the increasing number of cities involved in innovation
projects, these relationships and “knowledge sharing” can develop over the next
few years, as the benefits are seen within the cities themselves.”
The activities of FIREBALL are continued on Eurocities and CIP smart City
working groups and also FIA and ENoLL.
FIREBALL has stimulated the establishment of active and successful links with all
these communities through the duration of the Project as shown in the following
table (and based on the events and activity track identified at the beginning of
the project):
Period Main related activities/events Community related steps

M6 Connected Smart Cities, Identification of first key aspects

FIREBALL D2.2
November 18, 2010 of the three Communities and

Living labs and Smart Cities: their foundation elements and
open innovation for the Future common backgrounds. European
Internet, December 14, 2010 Joint Community as a “virtual”
concept (Community Common
Smart Cities and Future Internet aspects: “platform”, “openness”,
experimentation, December 16, “set of services” - Community
2010 Common relations: business,
social and technology-resource
based relations)
M12 FIA Budapest – May 2011 - Identification of key organisations
preparation and experts as part of the
17th International Conference on European Community, and
Concurrent Enterprising – June involving them in European
2011 - preparation Community building
FIREBALL participation in
- Building up a network of smart
cities, on basis of our
relationship with Eurocities;
- FISA Roadmapping Working
Group. FISA is the collection of
Future Internet Support
Actions;
- close working relationships
with the FIA and FIRE
community
M18 Workshop on IOT Identification of key organisations
experimentation needs – June and experts as part of the
2011 European Community, and
Connected smart cities network involving them in European
workshop – August 2011 Community building
Picnic Festival – September 2011 Supporting an active interaction

– additional event and communication across the
three communities (Smart Cities,
Smart Cities Future Internet – Living labs, Future internet)
coming your way – October 2011
– additional event Community building in the
direction of Strengthen the
Fireball workshop “Smart Cities Activities to consolidate Living Lab
and the Future Internet”, 26th Community with Future Internet
October 2011, Florence and Smart Cities;
Increasing consolidation of
Community in Smart Cities
direction
M24 Sustainable Smart Cities – Reinforcement of SmartCity
promoted by Eurocities – relations with investigation on key
January 2012 community aspects of:
Esoce Industry Forum 2011 - SMEs involvement and
The societal view on smart cities maturity on city’s practices
– workshop at the FIA 2012 - Complexity of smart city
conference environment maintenance
Fireball final event – Smart - Collaboration needs among all
Citizens in Smart Cities and the stakeholders involved

FIREBALL D2.2
Communities co-creating future (including Living Labs and

internet-enabled services incubators)
Identification and report of
common links and joint initiatives
base for the FIREBALL virtual
Community launch.

FIREBALL D2.2
References
[1] FIREBALL DOW_(257291)_2010-04-26;
[2] FIREBALL D2.1 Landscape And Roadmap Of Future Internet And Smart Cities (M6
first version October 2010, M12 update May 2011).
[3] Future Internet Assembly – Ghent – ppt presentations http://fi-ghent.fi-
week.eu/slides/
[4] Future Internet Assembly – Ghent – Foto and Video http://fi-ghent.fi-
week.eu/photos/ / http://fi-ghent.fi-week.eu/video/
[5] FIREBALL D1.3 Operational Infrastructure of IPR Arrangements For Access,
Sharing And Reuse of Common Assets
[6] FIREBALL D2.2 Community Workshop Report M6, M12, M18
[7] FIREBALL D2.3 Report about Exchanges with other Projects and Initiatives
[8] D3.1 Report on the establishment of a collaborative cross-border Smart Cities
network
[9] “Professional Virtual Communities” PVC Reference Framework – R. Santoro, A.
Bifulco


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FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME 7,

THEME 3, OBJECTIVE 1.6

D2.2 – COMMUNITY WORKSHOP

ABOUT FIREBALL ATTRIBUTES OF THIS OBJECT

www.fireball4smartcities.eu Submitted 27.04.2012

SECT. CONTENT PAGE

Framework programme 7 Coordinating Action FIREBALL

1.1 OBJECTIVE AND CONTEXT OF THIS REPORT

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1.2 OVERVIEW OF THIS REPORT

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2 EUROPEAN JOINT COMMUNITY FOR FUTURE INTERNET AND OPEN

2.2 FOUR WORKSHOPS

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2.3 EUROPEAN JOINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PHASES

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Four steps Community Establishment schema

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Phase Primary workshop events Secondary events

2 FIREBALL-FIRE workshop at FIA Living labs and Smart Cities

2.4 COMMUNITY BUILDING: FROM COMMON INTEREST IDENTIFICATION TO

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An additional element that emerged after the investigation of synergies and

The establishment of such joint virtual community continued then on a step-by-

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A first example of catalogue of Assets the Community organizations can share

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 Peripheria-(Alfamicro) - Networked Smart Peripheral Cities

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 3D Live – (Collaborative Engineering and EsoCE Net with

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3 EVENT AND ACTIVITIES PLANNING

Activities M1 – M6 M7 – M12 M13 – M18 M19 – M24

Secondary November 18th December 14th, FIREBALL December 2011:

Table 2: FIREBALL Community Building events

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4 ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS REPORT CURRENT PERIOD (M19 – M24)

4.1 SUSTAINABLE SMART CITIES – PROMOTED BY EUROCITIES – 25TH

EUROCITIES is the network of major European cities (founded

Framework programme 7 Coordinating Action FIREBALL

Introduction by invited speakers from the European

Roundtable discussion 30 minutes

Moderator: This session introduces the current issues, problems

Framework programme 7 Coordinating Action FIREBALL

- LISBON - Joana Fernandes (Project Coordinator,

Session 3 Opportunities for creating smarter cities

This session brings a spectrum of topics to the

Speakers , (invited presentations , Maximum: 10

Session 4 Towards smarter cities: policies, approaches,

This break-out session is addressing the issues cities

Moderator/facilitator: are experiencing with a forward looking view. What

The questions will be answered by the panelists and

4.1.4 Main discussions

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2011’s participatory budgeting led to a co-working space being developed for

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This duality, that in case of real Smart City environment tends to be

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Presentations are available at: http://www.fireball4smartcities.eu/