News:Summer school Living Lab Proceedings

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The first European Living labs Summer School has been a fantastic success!

It was held in Paris at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie – la Villette from August 25 to 27, 2010  This summer school was proposed by the amicommunity “Learning open innovation and living labs” created at the end of 2009. It was organised by two French living labs (ICT Usage Lab, Integrative Usage Lab, Esocenet and Unbla. The summer school gathered more than 80 participants coming from 24 countries among which Canada, Mexico, Taïwan, Senegal and Singapore.

The summer school was launched by Claudie Haigneré, who, after being a high level researcher in medicine, became the first french female astronaut and then a Minister of Mr Raffarin’s government. She is now the President of universcience (http://www.universcience.fr/en/welcome).

During three days, the enthusiastic interaction of the participants has produced a landscape of practices and research knowledge and a roadmap for contributing to major societal issues innovation. Proceedings will soon be made available to the whole Living Lab Community.

For more additional information, see the official LLSS2010 web site: http://www-sop.inria.fr/llss2010