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| A collaborative platform for working and living in rural areas

• C@R - Presentation Summary
• Overall Project Objectives
• Project Organisation
• Architecture and Service Goals
• Living Labs Vision
• Conclusions

• C@R - Overall Objectives
• C@R intends to promote 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 taking advantage of 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 expected impact

Will foster rural sustainable development

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• C@R – Partners and figures
• Partners
• Project Coordinator – TRAGSATEC
• Executive Management Board Chair - ESA
• 29 partners
• 12 European and 2 INCO countries
• 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

Industry SMEs International

• rganisations and

end-users partners Academia - Research

C@R – Partners types

• C@R Project RTD Lines

C@R development in 4 RTD activity blocks

• Collaborative Architecture / Framework
• Collaborative Core Services
• Software Collaborative Tools
• 4 coordinated Living Labs in innovative and traditional sectors

distributed in Europe and elsewhere (7 sites)

• Collaborative Rural Incubator
• Collaborative Open Communities / Governance
• Collaborative Fishery
• Systemic and sustainable use of results in C@R
• Socio-economical impact on policies for rural development
• Assessment, dissemination, exploitation …

Open Collaborative Platform

• C@R layered reference model

CCS SCT RLL

VA6 VA2 VA5 VA3 VA4 VA1 User domain CWE platform domain Enabling components domain

• CCS and CTS services
• CCS basic component
• Communication resources, e.g. network access systems, advanced routing

techniques…

• Environmental and context data capture resources, e.g. devices providing

location information, sensors…

• User Experience resources, e.g. elements interfacing with rural co-workers

graphic representation, multimodal interfaces…

• Information Management resources, e.g. information production, storage and

access, notification…

• Software Collaboration Components towards an Open Service Oriented

Architecture (OSOA)

• Uniforming Middleware, which provide components harmonization,

homogenization and adaptation to standards

• Orchestration Capabilities, such as distributed workspaces or context

awareness…

• Software Tools which include all necessary software components to provide end-

user level service components.

• Collaboration@Rural: Living Labs
• Rural Living Labs (RLL) are research environments where 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

INFRASTRUCTURES INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS VALIDATING APPLICATIONS

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INFRASTRUCTURES INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS VALIDATING APPLICATIONS

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• LL dynamic structure:

knowledge and technology flow

• The RLLs establish a flow of technology from lab tasks to rural areas according to

technological requirements and indicators.

• On the other hand RLLs allow information flow between policy-related stakeholders and

developers through the required criteria for rural development and sustainability. Assessment Development and Lab Tasks Policy drivers and rural development issues

User experience Technology Requirements

Decission Support System (DSS)

Technological indicators

Sustainable development indicators: social, economic, environmental

Impact

User experience Individual Components Technological Infrastructures Validating Applications End users

Assessment Development and Lab Tasks Policy drivers and rural development issues

User experience Technology Requirements

Decission Support System (DSS)

Technological indicators

Sustainable development indicators: social, economic, environmental

Impact

User experience Individual Components Technological Infrastructures Validating Applications End users Individual Components Technological Infrastructures Validating Applications End users

• RLL1: Collaborative rural incubator
• Objectives:

To use RLL methodology as a process for experimenting collaborative technologies for business needs, in particular to support rural entrepreneurship and the creation of new businesses in rural areas.

• Site:

LL distributed in 4 different sites: Turku (Finland), South Africa, Frascati (Italy), Soria- Burgos (Spain)

• Involved users:

Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial associations in rural areas

• Participants:

Tragsatec, Telefónica I+D, Nokia, Helsinki School of Economics, Atos Origin, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, University of Poznan, European Space Agency, Arslogica, Region Aboland, Tragsa, SAP

• Supporting Participants:

CSIR, Meraka Institute, MAPA, Red.es, Fundación Oxígeno, Vias Verdes, Local Councils in Soria and Burgos regions (Berlanga de Duero, Caleruega y Rabanera del Pinar)

• RLL2: Collaborative virtual community
• Objectives:

To build a rural laboratory and applications which will foster the online communities to work in an ad-hoc network ( development of P2P phone application with conferencing, security and diary support, product exchange application and m-broker application

• Site:

Mórakert PO at Southern Great Plane Region (Hungary)

• Involved users:

Farmers at cooperatives

• Participants:

University of Szeged, Tragsatec, Telefonica I+D, Helsinki School of Economics, Wirelessinfo, Atos Origin, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, European Space Agency, Gilat, Region Aboland

• Supporting Participants:

Mórakert PO farmers cooperative

• RLL3: Collaborative governance
• Objectives:

To develop applications based on collaborative technologies to improve processes in territorial decision making

• Site:

Vysocina Region (Czech Republic)

• Involved users:

Involvement of the regional government from Vysocina, and citizens from the said region.

• Participants:

Tragsatec, Wirelessinfo, Atos Origin, European Space Agency, Gilat

• Supporting Participants:

• RLL4: Collaborative fishery
• Objectives:

To develop applications based on collaborative technologies to improve processes in fishing arts charaterised for being develop in small vessels

• Site:

Cudillero (Asturias, Spain)

• Involved users:

Fishermen, workers at the Cudillero guild, workers at the Cudillero auction, workers from the Maritime Rescue Services

• Participants:

Tragsatec, Telefonica I+D, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Citipassenger, Loquendo, ESA, Arslogica

• Supporting Participants:

Consejería de Pesca del Principado de Asturias (providing personnel, premises, equipment, etc.)

• C@R Systemic and sustainable

use 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.

• C@R supports CWE Working Groups

Across IPs CWE Working Groups

We have a unique opportunity to lead the CWE research building a strong / effective LL network

1. Living Labs coordinated across IPs

• Define common LL development methodology and assessment
• Higher impact, guarantee of success, business opportunity

2. Define and validate a common Open Reference Architecture

• Build agreements across IPs
• Reuse of building blocks – standardisation, no duplications

• Conclusions
• C@R is a great opportunity
• To share tools developed in the project for a global LL assessment
• To test Interoperability among C@R and other IPs CWE Platforms
• To ensure wide dissemination activities in EU, China, Brazil and South

Africa