VITALISE D2.5 Standard Version 4
Creators: name: Petronikolou, Vasileia
name: Dimitriadis, Sarantis
name: Petsani, Despoina
name: Santonen, Teemu
name: Konstantinidis, Evdokimos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Although Living Labs have emerged as resilient research and innovation infrastructures and have been shown to be a “key” to the integration of research and innovation processes in real-life settings, they still fail to provide and function according to unified and harmonized processes that are easily accessible and exploitable by academic and industry researchers. Towards this end, VITALISE aims to create the first Harmonization guidelines for Living Labs that will facilitate the access of researchers to the provided infrastructures. This document presents the work performed for the Harmonization of the way Living Labs work for the fourth semester of VITALISE. Within the VITALISE project, various Harmonization activities were carried out with consortium partners and external stakeholders, to develop the Standard v0.4, building on the work done for the earlier versions of the Standard (v0.1, v0.2 and v0.3). The first version of the Standard (v0.1) provided an overview of the state-of-the-art information about Living Labs in the VITALISE consortium and served as the foundational deliverable for the VITALISE Standards. The second version of the Standard (v0.2) introduced the process of developing and disseminating a Wiki page that incorporated v0.1 and updated the parts of the Standard that described the data and technologies used in living labs, using a Delphi study method, and collected the initial set of terms for the living lab lexicon. Additionally, during the second semester, the Harmonization Board was established, and a meeting with the Harmonization Body was held. In the third version of the Standard (v0.3) the device and technology taxonomy were updated through a Delphi study, several meetings were held for updating the services and procedures categorization, as well as several activities and sessions for collecting and achieving a preliminary agreement on living lab lexicon terms. Moreover, two templates were developed for the co-creation sessions conducted within the Joint Research Activities (JRAs) and also, during this third semester, the project held its second plenary meeting in Helsinki and the second Harmonization Body meeting. During this iteration for the current deliverable (Standard Version 0.4), a wide range of actions took place, starting with meetings and activities to update the LL Lexicon terms. Moreover, several activities were carried out toward the definition of the LL Innovation and Research phases, as well as to update the LL services. In addition, an analysis of the Open Call data was conducted regarding the stakeholders, the services, and devices provided by the LLs, and also some interviews with consortium partners and external experts regarding several aspects of the research processes. The analysis of the results of those interviews is planned to be presented in the next Standard Version, since more interviews are planned to be performed within the upcoming period. Furthermore, we proceeded with the finalization of data and devices taxonomy from the Delphi study and their approval from the Harmonization Board. Last but not least, during this semester, the 3rd Harmonization Body meeting and one Harmonization Board meeting took place on January and February correspondingly. The final Section of this document presents the Standard v0.4 that will be also published in the living lab harmonization wiki page.