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Cudillero Living Lab was born as one of the working Living Lab designed in the project Collaboration At Rural (C@R). C@R is an Integrated Project, founded by the IST Priority of the EC 6th Framework Programme with a budget of EUR 15 million and 33 project partners. C@R aims to boost the introduction of Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) as key enablers catalyzing rural development. It proposes a complete set of research activities and tasks which will identify, develop and validate technological responses to actual barriers jeopardizing the sustainable development in rural areas. See Collaboration At Rural Project for more information. In Cudillero Living Lab the goal is to offer technical support and services to users involved in fishing industry in order to facilitate their daily tasks using the collaborative environment supported by the platform proposed in C@R. Cudillero LL will serve to develop applications based on collaborative technologies to improve processes for being developed in small vessels devoted to the “hake fished by hook” fishing art. The applications are intended to include functionalities to manage alerts on board, catches reports and technologies for collaboration on board-on shore. Cudillero is taken in the context of C@R as an example to implement this collaborative environment with the final idea of spreading it out to the rest of rural areas in the coast with similar characteristics. Cudillero Living Lab is mainly supported by the Rural Environment and Fisheries Department of the Principality of Asturias, the “Virgen del Carmen” fishers Association and the Cudillero local authorities. With the aim of cement the importance, visibility and sustainability of this Living Lab, it has been presented to the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) trying to be included in its second wave to be able to participate in the shared of knowledge, expertises and good practices on the application of these methodology. See ENoLL website for more information. |
Cudillero Living Lab is a local but open initiative for the economical and social promotion of the rural area through a new methodology for innovation that is working all around Europe and world. A Living Lab is a collection of infrastructures, tools, services, applications, methods, processes, practices, human capital and agreements that enable firms, authorities, SMEs and people to work together to create, prototype, test and validate new services, business markets and technologies in real-life environments.