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CDTs mission is to generate sustainable business innovation.
We offer an integrated environment for business driven research and development projects in the area of advanced information, interaction and communication technology.
At CDT people make impact - together! |
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CDTs Living Lab for user centric development, Botnia Living Lab is Sweden's largest open Living Lab for development of IT based products and services. User investigations, research and developmentare conducted in Sweden and internationally, in cooperation with other Living Lab sites.
Swedish organizations, "LivingLabs", Collaborating on user driven innovation of ICT-based services
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CDT annual report 2009 released
Annual Report 2009 highlights CDT's achievements over the past year.
For further information, please contact
Paula Wennberg
Centre for Distance-spanning Technology (CDT)
Phone: +46 920 491285 Paula.Wennberg@cdt.ltu.se |
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FIREBALL project approved
The FP7 project FIREBALL, coordinated by CDT, is approved by the European Commisssion. FIREBALL will bring together Future Internet Research and Exprimentation with Living Labs in a smart cities environment. Seventeen partners from 11 countries participate in the project.
Contact Michael Nilsson for more information.
Michael.Nilsson@cdt.ltu.se |
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CDT supporting Mobile Applications Award competition
Ericsson is running a student competition in developing mobile applications. CDT supports Ericsson with User Evaluation of the applications. 120 student teams from 28 countries are registered in the competition. The student teams are spread across e.g. Brazil, USA, China and Indonesia, as well as the European countries. The applications will be evaluated by users in five countries. Prizes totalling € 45,000 will be awarded among the winning teams.
Read more at: http://www.ericssonapplicationawards.com/ |
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Handbook - How to mobilize |
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Handbook on How to mobilize and involve people in the development of new ICT solutions now released, Welcome to share our knowledge, lessons learned and advices, |
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Energy-saving in practice - test starts among 50 households in Luleå |
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Energy-saving in practice - test starts among 50 households in Luleå.
On Dec 4 a real-life test starts of the awarded LTU-innovation for district heating monitoring.
In total 50 households in Luleå will install and test a new system for monitoring their energy consumption at home.
Read more about the SABER-project |
Curt Johansson
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Improving the contact with the political power |
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– final round On Thursday Nov 18 it´s time for the final test-event within the project Virtual European Parliament (VEP). VEP is a project aiming for improved possibilities for citizens and politicians to meet and discuss with the help of Web 2.0 and mobile technology. |
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Welcome to join this final event at 16.00-18.00 either on site at the Campus in Luleå (Room A206) or over the Internet by accessing the VEP-portal at www.virtualep.eu, During the event citizens and EU politicians from Sweden, Belgium and Spain will discuss the EU Telecoms reform.
See video from the event on SVT Play:
http://svtplay.se/v/1777209/it-projekt_for_att_utveckla_demokratin |
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Project starts to fine-tune the Living Lab methodology
In November 2009 the EU-funded project Apollon starts targeting cross-border networks of Living Labs to provide a model for successful Living Lab cooperation in several domains: Energy efficiency, E-health, eParticipation and eManufacturing. More than twenty European partners from academia, public authority and industry will together run different cross-border pilot experiments to share experience and develop best-practice guidelines including methods and tools for domain-specific Living Lab processes. |
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Living Lab toolbox |
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The ENoLL Nordic project is finalized and as a concrete result we now launch a Toolbox for user-driven innovation and Living Labbing including different resurces for user involvment in the innovation process. Nordic partners have been CDT, Learning Lab Denmark, Helsinki School of Economics, The Norwegian University of Science. The cooperation have been financed by the Nordic innovation centre.
Welcome with your contribution
Link: http://lltoolbox.eu/ |
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Improving the contact with the political power – round 3 |
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It is now time for yet another event within the project Virtual European Parliament (VEP). VEP is a project aiming for improved possibilities for citizens and politicians to meet and discuss with the help of Web 2.0 and mobile technology.
Five small events will take place during September 25 to October 31. the first takes place at Kulturens Hus (House of Culture) in Luleå. You are most welcome to join the event and test different interaction technologies and to share your ideas.
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This week the iRoad project will participate at the ITS World Congress 2009 in Stockholm with scientific presentations and demonstration of new ITS functionality based on road surface data.
Here you can get a live view of Traffic monitoring on a road in Norrbotten Sweden,
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FIREweek 2009: FIRE and Living Labs is closed.
With the concluding remarks from conference-general Michael Nilsson:
We have been a "family" for two days, but actually the whole week, 7 days here in Luleå, have been busy days.
Do you know what this is:
- 330 participants
- 30 nationalities
- 70 speakers
- 22 parallell sessions
- 9 review meetings
- 8 project meetings
- 1 assembly meeting
- 11 preparation meetings
- xx number of new friends,
- yy number of proposal discussions
- a lot of good laughs and enjoyment
- too few sleeping hours BUT +30 degrees and nightless nights
- a moment of good life!
Dear friends, THAT is FIREweek 2009: FIRE & LivingLabs in Luleå! FANTASTIC!
Share these moments with us | PHOTO GALLERY
www.fireandlivinglabs09.eu
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Laila Ohlgren Awarded Polhem Prize
Laila Ohlgren received the Polhem prize 2009 for her invention – the green call button – used in every mobile phone on earth.
Spring 1979 Laila and her colleagues Östen Mäkitalo among others at Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT) faced a problem that needed to be resolved – the slow dialling procedure in the mobile phone network. Lifting the handset and then dialling the number took too long and worked poorly.
That’s when she got the idea to make use of the microprocessor that’s incorporated in the phone - save the number and then send the entire package of figures at once by pressing the green button.
read more:
Ny Teknik (SWE)
Sveriges ingengörer (SWE)
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CDT is setting up a show-room for better technology transfer capacity
In April 2009 the project Bonita started with the aim to bridge the knowledge gaps between universities, industrial actors and policy makers in the area of technology transfer*. The three year long Interreg IVB project, with CDT as core-partner, will evaluate existing technology and innovation transfer models within the Baltic-sea region to set up an enhanced transfer model where showrooms in different countries will be a core component.
Read more >>
* Technology transfer is a term used for the process to stimulate the sharing of new knowledge coming from research to ensure that scientific development are accessible to a wider range of users. |
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CDT annual report 2008 released |
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Annual Report 2008 highlights CDT's achievements over the past year.
For further information, please contact
Paula Wennberg
Centre for Distance-spanning Technology (CDT)
Phone: +46 920 491285
E-mail: Paula.Wennberg@cdt.ltu.se |
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Annual Report 2008 |
Energy project at House of culture
The SAVE Energy project (2009-2011) is focused on how to reduce the energy consumption in public buildings via a changed user behaviour.
CDT and Luleå Kommuns Tekniska förvaltningen will be the Swedish representatives in this EU project. The House of culture will be one of totally 5 pilots around Europe. Helsinki, Leiden, Manchester and Lissabon being the other pilots.
For further information please contact
Arne Gylling, CDT
email: arne.gylling[at]cdt.ltu.se
Ulf Vikström, Luleå tekniska förvaltning
email: ulf.wikstrom[at]tekn.lulea.se
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Two projects with focus on entertainment
Öppet manus - User-Created theatre
Plan Sju in Luleå together with Norrbottensteatern and CDT will create an IT service where people can actively take part in the writing process of a script in cooperation with others. This will also allow the theatre to reach new audiences and to make new offers
Voxduell
Unimob in Luleå in cooperation with Son Of a Gun Music and CDT will develop a mobile-based music game, offering a mobile song-and music contest with different game variations to users who want to appear or compete in various forms.
The projects are funded by Vinnova.
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Vinnova (SWE)
Computer Sweden (SWE)
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The first doctoral thesis on Living Labs released |
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CDT is proud to announce that the first Doctoral Thesis ever focusing on Living Labs is now available. The thesis is based on five years of research within Botnia Living Lab which is hosted by CDT. PhD Student Anna Ståhlbröst will defend the thesis on December 18 at 10.00 in room D770 at Luleå University of Technology.
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Forming Future IT
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EU Power weeks on Blogging |
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CDT is part of the EU Power weeks on blogging. This is an event where new ICT-solutions are tested among young citizens in Sweden, Belgium and Spain.
Host of the event is the project Virtual European Parliament with the purpose to create a public room for debate between citizens and decision makers (i.c. MEP’s) in EC. |
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More about the project:
www.virtualep.eu/ |
Oricane awarded "Mobile technology of the year 2008"
Oricane was awarded Mobile Technology Development of 2008. Algorithm Designers Magnus Holm and Robin Mellberg accepted the prestigious price with board member Johan Strömberg on stage.
more info:
Oricane
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Experiences from eChallengs CDT stand
A set of best-practices of ongoing research, development and innovation initiatives were demonstrated. For example the CDT demonstration stand informed about different technical platforms, end-user communities and other recourses available within CDT. Moreover, different members of the CDT partner network for business, research integration and innovation management from both business and academia gave demonstrations or presentations of results and experiences from our long partnership.
The CDT Demonstration Stand – CDT: Extending Human Capabilities – which was part of the Swedish ICT Pavilion at the eChallenge e-2008 Conference at Grand Hotel, in Stockholm 22 - 24 October 2008 turned out to be a central meeting point.
See pictures from the event.
eChallenge image gallery |
CDT partner in fireworks project
The FIREworks Support Action EU FP7 coordinates and supports interworking of testbed activities in Europe and their respective connections outside of Europe, mainly to North America and Far East.
FIREworks brings together various explorers and players of the future internet. The project facilitates and develops a forum for stakeholders in Europe and beyond to work for the future internet research involving large-scale experimentation, and for common premises required for this research. The European approach to boost research is to connect and federate experimental resources, enable joint research, and increase the use of existing facilities for even competing design prospects of the future internet architecture and technologies.
more info:
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CDT partner in Panlab II (PII) project
PII addresses the need for large-scale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds.
The PII project uses the concept of European innovation clusters and builds on the existing testbeds that are supporting scientific and technological endeavour within these clusters.
The central objective of PII funded by EU FP7 is to create a testbed federation among these regional innovation clusters in Europe.
more info:
http://www.panlab.net/ |
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