Apollon

The project consists of four cross-border Living Lab experiments, i.e. in the Homecare and Independent Living, Energy Efficiency, eManufacturing and eParticipation domain.

These will focus on validating the added value of a cross-border Living Lab network, both in terms of SMEs gaining access to new markets, as in terms of achieving collaboration breakthroughs in the development of pan-European domain-specific solutions.

Each experiment focuses on a specific cross-border harmonisation and networking aspect:

A common eco-system model

(Homecare and Independent Living experiment)

In the first experiment a homecare solution, which is being piloted in a local Living Lab, will be transferred to one other Living Lab belonging to the network. The focus of this experiment is to determine what kind of ecosystem, value network and common approach needs to be in place to conduct cross-border pilots and to what extent these pre-requisites helps to do this faster, easier and more efficiently.

Specifically for Apollon I Can Help the following film was made:

A common benchmark framework

(Energy Efficiency experiment)

This experiment will develop a common benchmark framework that will be deployed in all Living Labs taking part in the Energy Efficiency experiment. The main focus here is to assess the scalability of the Living Lab network, its services, and the comparability of research data within cross-border projects

A common technology platform

(eManufacturing experiment)

In this experiment a common technology platform will be introduced and used by each of the domain specific Living Labs. The objective of this experiment is not only to see to what extent the use of such a common platform facilitates the creation of services between Living Labs but also to investigate whether this stimulates new forms of collaboration between different partners.

An integration framework

(eParticipation experiment)

This experiment transfers and integrates several locally tested applications into each of the different Living Labs that are active in the network. By piloting the integration of applications developed by SMEs in all the Living Labs we can test how integrated eMedia technologies can encourage eParticipation and what are the advantages, best practices and limitations of cross-border activities within the network.

More information about home care projects, is to be found on the following website: http://www.smartcareplatform.eu/

Read more about Apollon on the APOLLON WEBSITE.

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