29 June - 3 July 200, Luleå, Sweden

Co-organised by

• the Directorate General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission, Unit F4 "New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities"
• FIREWorks and CO-LLABS projects 
  
• Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology, Luleå University of Technology

The tradition of organising a FIRE event celebrating EU presidency in the hosting country continues with a trip to nightless night up in the north of Sweden in July 2009. FIREweek 2009 benefits from the muliti-disciplinary and innovative atmosphere made by sincere Swedes in Luleå, and this year FIRE meets Living Labs, innovation enablers and extractors, where also Future Internet can be made by its users. The official website of the event is here http://www.fireandlivinglabs09.eu

FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation is an initiative under the ICT theme of EU Framework Programme 7. Projects selected under Call 2 - Objective 1.6 “New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities” are the first step under FP7 towards building FIRE. The initiative has two related dimensions: Building a European Experimental Facility for Future Internet research, and supporting experimentally-driven advanced research, which defines the challenges for and takes advantage of the dynamically evolving facility. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire/

Living Labs are open innovation environments in real-life settings, in which user-driven innovation is fully integrated within the co-creation process of new services, products and societal infrastructures. In recent years, Living Labs have become a powerful instrument for effectively involving the user at all stages of the research, development and innovation process. Living Lab is normally a very local set-up; an area or a region is establishing a living lab to foster its development and to improve the life of its citizens. However, since Living Lab is about people together for better tomorrow, scaling up the concept and jointly benefiting from the power of co-creation is fundamental for the philosophy to be put in action. Hence the European Network of Living Labs, ENoLL. Despite the idea of living labs born in US, the network is a European concept, which now after the third wave of ENoLL members grew global and even beyond European borders. More at:  http://www.openlivinglabs.eu


During this week we want to address how FIRE and the Living Lab movement can work jointly together and to discuss if and how users can bring added value for Future Internet research to best contribute to European competitiveness and growth. The first day will give an overview of work in progress and results within the FIRE and Living Lab area. In addition ongoing Future Internet research in the US and Japan will be presented. During the second day more specific issues will be shared and discussed in specific tutorials and workshops.

• 1 July 2009
  • FIRE and Living labs - Future Internet by the people at House of Culture in Luleå
• 2 July 2009
  • Tutorials and Workshops at Luleå University of Technology
• 30 June - 3 July 2009
• Project reviews and meetings at Luleå University of Technology

The official FIREweek website is http://www.fireandlivinglabs09.eu. More information on the venues, registration and accommodation can be found there.