Marc Pallot

COIN Service Platform for Living Labs (COIN4LL)

This task investigated the applicability of COIN service Platform as an enabler for Living Labs. Living Labs movement is currently gaining a significant momentum further to the positive outcomes of the 3rd wave and with the 4th wave call still on-going (deadline 25th January 2010) to register as a member of European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL, htpp/www.openlivinglabs.eu). At the moment, 129 organisations have been selected and are participating in the ENoLL activity network.
As far as Living Labs relevance to COIN topics is concerned, they are always linked to a specific industrial texture, mainly regional or local, which makes them preferential candidate to be among COIN multipliers and early adopters, thus giving COIN exploitation and dissemination potential a boost.
Finally, Living Labs, which are already dispensing IT services to their constituency, can also contribute to populate the COIN service offer by establishing dedicated agreement.
Marc Pallot was the COIN designated Angel to perform this task, because its early involvement in the AMI Communities, in the early stages of the Living Labs deployment and his solid background activity and experience in the ICT research arena.