Collaboration@Rural

A collaborative platform for working and living in rural areas

Karin Nichterlein/ Francisco LópezBuilding Partnerships for Technology Generation, Assessment and Transfer among West

Balkan Countries

27-29 June 2007- Skopje, Macedonia

http://www.c-rural.eu

C@R - Presentation Summary

• Overall Project Objectives

• Project Organization

• Living Labs Vision

• FAO’s Role

http://www.c-rural.eu

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• C@R intends to promote the introduction of collaborative working environments• key enablers of sustainable development in rural areas

• C@R proposes a technological response to the barriers preventing rural development • development, test and validation of a collaborative platform to

enhance the capabilities of rural inhabitants leading to a better quality of life and a revalorization of rural settings

• C@R uses the living labs methodology as a way to involve rural constituency in RTD activities addressing collaborative technologies• inclusion in the wide sense: to enable people in remote and rural

Europe to fully participate in the knowledge society as citizens and professionals

C@R – Partners and figures

• Partners• Project Coordinator – TRAGSATEC

• Executive Management Board Chair - ESA

• 27 partners• 12 European enterprises• Key Service Industry, Value Added and SME• International institutions, and Key National Users• Research, University

• Project Figures• Total cost: about 15 M€• Funding: 8.65 M€

• Duration: 36 months

• Sixth Framework Programme – Information society Technologies (Priority 2)

INDUSTRYINDUSTRY

SMEsSMEs

INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL

ORGANISATIONS AND ORGANISATIONS AND

ENDEND--USER PARTNERSUSER PARTNERS

ACADEMIA ACADEMIA -- RESEARCHRESEARCH

C@R – Partners types

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C@R development in 4 RTD activity blocks

• Collaborative Architecture / Framework• Collaborative Core Services

• Software Collaborative Tools

• 5 coordinated Living Labs in innovative and traditional sectors distributed in Europe and elsewhere (9 sites)

• Collaborative Rural Incubator

• Collaborative Open Communities / Governance

• Collaborative Fishery / Woodland

• Systemic and sustainable use of results in C@R• Socio-economical impact on policies for rural

development

• Assessment, dissemination, exploitation …

Open Collaborative Platform

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Will foster rural

sustainable development

Promotion of a rural community awareness:

• Participation and inclusion in governance

• Creation of virtual communities

Prevention of out migration:

• Helps retaining young people

Globalization process:

• Prevent disconnection facilitating

• Access to digital contents

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Traditional sectors:

• Conditions for sustainability of rural economies

• Increasing productivity

Emerging occupations:

• Promote rural entrepreneurship

• Create employment in a knowledge-based society

• Enable new business models

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value creation in remote and rural areas stressing

innovation, job creation and growth together with full inclusion of European citizens in the knowledge society

and economy.

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Innovation ApproachInnovation ApproachInnovation ApproachInnovation Approach

Market

TechnologyPolicy

Society Base on Article “State-of-the-art in

utilizing Living Labs approach to

user centric ICT innovation – a

European approach” Dec 15,

2005 Mats Eriksson, Veli-

Pekka Nitamo & Seija Kulkki

Old fashioned

Un Economical

Low Acceptance

Lose opportunities

Higher barriers

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• Rural Living Labs (RLL) are research environments where validating applications will be developed over the

C@R Architecture in different validating scenarios.

• RLLs are intended to be mediating environments between

the base technologies and the rural development objectives

• The RLL establish a flow of technology from lab tasks to rural areas according to technological requirements and

indicators.

• On the other hand RLL allow an information flow between policy-related stakeholders and developers through the

required criteria for rural development and sustainability.

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of results

• Extensive and ambitious plan for using C@R results in EU, China, Brazil and South Africa

• Focused actions will be developed to guarantee a high impact, paying a great attention to policy aspects of rural

development.

• Partner no 20: FAO

• Role in C@R• awareness on rural problems• methodology for ict needs assessment

• Facilitate linkages of private sector with Academia and National and International Research Centres

• Dissemination of project achievements

• Block 4: Systemic and sustainable use of results• FAO focus on: Networked Research, boosting

synergies. see p 18

• Contacts: Isabel.Alvarez@fao.org

Francisco.Lopez@fao.org