News:GNSS Living Lab Prize: Open Call for reality Check Pilots!

18 October 2010, Munich. The GNSS Living Lab Prize (supported by the GNSS Supervisory Authority through the GAINS project ) has been launched during the Galileo Application Days 2010 event, held in Brussels on 3-5 March 2010. From 57 ideas that have been submitted from May to July 2010, ten ideas have been nominated as finalists GNSS_LL_Prize_Finalists and the three winning ideas  LLAB_prize_winners in the categories energy, health and media have been awarded on 18 October 2010. The 2nd stage of the GNSS Living Lab Prize now calls for interested Living Labs to submit proposals for launching pilots for the three winning ideas. The proposing Living Labs shall demonstrate that they can offer the best validation environment for a specific idea, including the most promising prospect for its potential adoption and commercial exploitation. GAINS will select three Living Labs, who will get the opportunity of hosting a “reality check trial” with one of the winning ideas in their own Living Lab environment, with the involvement of relevant user communities and potential future customers. Submissions of the Living Labs Proposal shall focus on one the following themes: health, energy and media. '''The three selected Living Labs will receive a co-funding for the pilot activities of up to 20,000 EUR each.

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The Living Labs responding to this call should: • Have the capability to attract mobilise / additional resources in support to the specific proposed pilot; • Demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed workplan and the capability of executing it with effectiveness and reliability.

For further information on the GAINS Open Call for Living Labs please refer to the following regulating documentation: Proposal Template | Selection Criteria available at: Galileo Masters

The timetable for the GNSS Living Lab Prize is as follows:


 * 19 October 2010: Official launch of the Open Call for Pilots; call documents and procedure availble, including public 1description of the 3 winning ideas;
 * 19 October to 15 January 2011: Support to tenderers, dissemination campaign;
 * 6 December 2010: Matchmaking workshop for winners of the GNSS Living Lab Prize and Living Labs proposing to conduct “reality checks pilots". The workshop is hosted by the ESoCE Net Industry Forum User Driven Open innovation for SMEs
 * 15 January 2011: Deadline for Proposal submision
 * 16 February to 2011 3 March 2011: Contract finalization with winning Living Labs
 * 1 April 2011 to 30 September 2011: Pilot conduction

Match Making Event in Rome: ESoCE-Net Industrial Forum, 6th and 7th December 2010 The Match Making event will be organized in the frame of ESoCE-Net Industrial Forum, 6th and 7th December 2010 and will be focused on “Open Innovation Platforms for SMEs”, as a mean to integrate European SMEs and support their competitiveness. Innovation platforms can provide SMEs with the needed collaboration environment required to achieve critical mass and to access global opportunities. In this context, the GAINS project is contributing to this scenario by delivering the GAINS Innovation Platform or Highway, by combining the potential and exploiting the synergies of the European Network of Living Labs and the European Satellite Navigation Competition. Participants in this event are:
 * Living Labs and their stakeholders, willing to participate in the GNSS Living Lab Prize and to understand how to generalize the Prize concept to other sectors of interests;
 * Representatives of SMEs and Large Companies, willing to collaborate with User Driven Open Innovation communities as part of the new product development process
 * Institutional demand and public procurement bodies, interested in participating and supporting Living Lab Prize initiatives.

The Match Making process developed by ESoCE is based on the following steps:
 * Collection of business ideas description, organized according to a specific template, whose main elements Include:Short description of the idea and the relevant intended use; Motivation to conduct a “reality check trial” in Living Labs and relevant benefits expected; Level of maturity of the idea and what the idea’s holder can offer to Living Labs communities to support the trial (prototypes, licenses and so on)
 * Pre-screening of the participating Living Labs and their relevance to a specific idea and its potential for a quick and effective scaling up;
 * Organization of bilateral meetings on 7th December with selected Living Labs, to identify practical steps forward for the launch of joint initiatives and to discuss and negotiate terms and conditions for conducting reality checks trials.

If you are interested in reserving a dedicated bilateral meeting, please send us an e-mail by 15 November 2010 to rsantoro@esoce.net

You are also invited to join our discussion in the GNSS Living Lab Prize Linkedin Group