Collaboration frameworks for Mobility Living Labs and experimentation
TIME
15:45 – 17:00
TRACKS
TRACK 2: Living Labs for Policies, Governance, collaboration and innovation ecosystems.
TRACK 5: Living Labs Operation, Methods, Tools, and Impact.
ORGANISER
Josep Maria Salanova Grau and Maria Konstantinidou (CERTH/HIT)
Target Audience
Policymakers and city representatives; Companies and entrepreneurs; Researchers and academics; Living Lab representatives and practitioners.
Type of Session
Topic Debate
DESCRIPTION
Collaboration between LLs make possible to generate networks between different stakeholders of innovation, enhancing the transferability, scalability and replicability of innovative solutions and best practices and achieving the mobilization of a universal innovation ecosystem to respond to common challenges achieving systemic change and real impact. The session focuses on the work performed within ENoLL Mobility WG related to the definition of a framework that puts the basis for establishing collaborations between mobility LLs. The participants will be informed about the success factors and barriers identified so far in collaborative schemes of LLs. Through this knowledge exchange, the participants will discover the added value of synergies between different mobility LLs, both from a scientific point of view but also from a more business dimension.
Agenda
- Welcome and introduction of the workshop (Josep Maria Salanova Grau, CERTH/HIT) (5min)
- Experience of Austrian living labs (Kara Mensing, AustriaTechv (10 min)
- Collaboration CERTH-ENOLL-GIZ and GUMILL activities (Vivekanand Kotikalapudi, GIZ) (10 min)
- Mobility living labs in Latin America: status quo and needs (representative from SIMUS to be decided) (10 min)
- Local living labs on mobility / experience (Andrei Son, Innovation Manager in Continental Automotive Romania) (10 min)
- Collaboration framework (Maria Konstantinidou, CERTH/HIT (10 min)
- Panel discussion moderated by Josep Maria Salanova Grau and Q&A (15 min)
- Concluding remarks (Josep Maria Salanova Grau, CERTH/HIT) (5 min)
SPEAKER BIOS
Josep Maria Salanova Grau
Researcher CERTH/HIT
Josep Maria Salanova Grau
Researcher CERTH/HITJosep Maria Salanova Grau (jose@certh.gr) is a researcher at CERTH/HIT and holds a Civil engineering diploma and PhD in transport modelling from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona and a MSc in civil and transportation engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is leading the “Data analysis and modelling†laboratory and he is in the core team of Thessaloniki Smart Mobility Living Lab, which is an efficient member of ENoLL. His scientific interests concern research and developments in transport and mostly in algorithm and model development, mobility, intermodal transport and logistics as well as Data Science and Big Data at the transport domain. Additionally, he co leads with AustriaTech and JRC the ENoll Working Group on mobility.
Kara Mensing
Analyst Innovating Mobility at AustriaTech
Kara Mensing
Analyst Innovating Mobility at AustriaTechKara Mensing is an analyst from Germany who works at AustriaTech, a government-owned company in Austria that focuses on promoting and implementing innovative technologies in the transportation and mobility sectors. She is currently studying for a master’s degree in Sociology in Vienna, focusing on inclusive urban planning. Her primary areas of work include youth mobility, and she collaborates closely with her colleagues on the management of the Austrian Mobility Labs. They also represent the Austrian experience in the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) working group, helping to develop new ideas for mobility solutions.
Vivekanand Kotikalapudi
Transport, Infrastructure Advisor at GIZ
Vivekanand Kotikalapudi
Transport, Infrastructure Advisor at GIZVivekanand is an Urban Mobility expert focused on tackling issues with urbanisation like improving air quality and solving traffic problems. He has held various leadership roles on Strategy during his 9-year long career at Bosch in India and had started and led the Urban Mobility practice there in 2018. He has been advising various government authorities in Bangalore over the past 6 years on developing solutions to bring about a modal shift from private to public transport. He is instrumental in setting up the Green Urban Mobility Innovation Living Lab in Bengaluru since November 2021.  
Grace Lopez
Economist
Grace Lopez
EconomistUrban researcher with more than 10 years of experience in sustainable mobility, public policies and climate change. Since 2023, she has been working at the Urban Electric Mobility Initiative (UEMI) in the implementation of gender-focused electric mobility projects in Quito and Ecuador. Currently, she serves as a local Advisor for the E-MOVILIZA project "Support for the transition to low-carbon electric mobility in Ecuador". She was also part of the 2022 Urban Leaders Program focused on women's mobility and early childhood taught by Mujeres en Movimiento.
Maria Konstantinidou 
Research Associate CERTH/HIT 
Maria Konstantinidou 
Research Associate CERTH/HIT Maria Konstantinidou is urban planner with MSc degrees in Transport management, Environmental planning and Business Administration. Since 2018 she is research associate in Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT/CERTH), participating in several national and European mobility related projects. Within Thessaloniki Smart Mobility Living Lab she is dealing with topics related to the implementation of Living Lab methodologies, stakeholders’ capacity building and users’ engagement strategies in mobility. 
Andrei Son
Country Innovation Manager and Head of Research/Advanced Engineering, AI Romania
Andrei Son
Country Innovation Manager and Head of Research/Advanced Engineering, AI RomaniaAndrei Son is a seasoned manager in the automotive industry, currently serving as Country Innovation Manager and Head of Research/Advanced Engineering AI Romania, with over a decade of experience at Continental. In his current roles, Andrei focuses on leading organizations that are delivering innovative projects and services both internally and to external partners. He works to drive regional innovation strategy of Continental, connect regional opportunities with global innovation fields and develops internal programs to enhance innovation skills within the company. Before his current positions, Andrei held various roles at Continental, including Team Leader for the ADAS Advanced Engineering Group and ADAS Innovation and Patents Coordinator after he started his career at Continental as a Software Requirements Engineer.