ThessAHALL—A Life-Long Learning Programme for the Social Inclusion of “Early-Stage” Older Adult Researchers

Mantziari, Despoina; Konstantinidis, Evdokimos I.; Petsani, Despoina; Kyriakidis, Nikolaos; Zilidou, Vasiliki I.; Sidiropoulos, Efstathios; Nikolaidou, Maria; Katsouli, Aikaterini; Bamidis, Panagiotis D.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-78733-2_9

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“…The gap between the people initiating or developing a project and the actual users of that solution should be reduced as much as possible [145], especially when there is a risk of social exclusion. [155] highlight the importance of engagement with older adults, even if their ability to use digital technologies is low, in the context of aging-related research. [156] show that working with vulnerable users in co-creation processes needs special attention to their needs and a focus on informal communication in order to build trust and generate feelings of safety.…”

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Digital Co-Creation in Socially Sustainable Smart City Projects: Lessons From the European Union and Canada

Popescul,

Murariu,

Radu

et al. 2024

IEEE Access

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Utilizing readily accessible information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as mobile devices, applications, and simple Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and harnessing their potential through Experimentation as a Service (EaaS), crowdsensing, and gamification, represents one of the most effective approaches to implementing co-creation in smart cities. The benefits of this bottom-up approach are closely related to accurately identifying the real needs of city residents and increasing the chances of designing and implementing solutions with genuine impact, ensuring equity, social inclusion, sustainability, and community resilience. This paper investigates the utilization of ICTs to support social sustainability by analyzing 157 smart city projects funded under the Horizon 2020 program at the European Union level and 5 smart city projects from Canada. The results reveal the utilization of technological solutions such as testbeds, living labs, EaaS, crowdsensing, open data, and more for co-creation in smart city projects. In the discussion part, we point out the importance of focusing on technologies that are familiar to the beneficiaries and on leveraging resources already available as wearable devices or in the citizens' homes, the versatility of the technological solutions analyzed, the role of heterogeneous and open data, and cross-disciplinary teams in creating new perspectives on urban problems, reducing inequity in the development of solutions to solve them. The concerns raised and problems reported relate to the technology itself (errors in operation), users (difficulties in stimulating their involvement and keeping it constant), and data (quality of data collected, difficult to process, ethics and security of data collection and use). Based on our results, we extract, synthetize and present six distinct categories of lessons learned by the implementation teams of the analyzed projects.INDEX TERMS co-creation, crowdsensing, Experimentation as a Service, Internet of Things, mobile technologies, smart city, social sustainability I. INTRODUCTIONThe term "smart city" refers to a type of sustainable urban development, capable of meeting the basic needs of residents, as well as public and private organizations, from multiple perspectives: economic, operational, social, and environmental [1] [2] [3]. Smart cities emerge and develop as a collective effort of governments, businesses, and citizens, through Public-Private-People Partnerships [4]. The main benefits of smart cities are manifested in six broad dimensions: smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment, smart population, smart lifestyle, and smart governance [5] and relate to: optimal living conditions of citizens, better urban traffic, public transport, logistics and communication systems, efficient management of natural resources, easier access to education, citizens' engagement in public life, equal opportunities for all members of the community, effective public strategies and policies, coproduction of services, democracy and transparency, c...

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Section: ) Stakeholder Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Co-Creation in Socially Sustainable Smart City Projects: Lessons From the European Union and Canada

Popescul,

Murariu,

Radu

et al. 2024

IEEE Access

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“…Three end-users, members of living lab's Collaboration and Research community for the independent Living (composed mainly of older adults and patients), were invited to join an open discussion with the students. 16 The aforementioned Community is meeting on a frequent basis and performs co-creation activities, so the invited end-users were familiar with the methodologies and procedures. They were not given any instructions before the lecture in order to elicit a spontaneous response and discussion on the students ideas.…”

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“…The Parkinson's patients are member of the Parkinson's Association of Northern Greece, part of the Thess-AHALL stakeholders community. 16 The first and the third lecture took place at the Engineering School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki while the other two at the premises of the Lab of Medical Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.…”

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Teaching university students co-creation and living lab methodologies through experiential learning activities and preparing them for RRI

Konstantinidis

Petsani

Bamidis

2021

Health Informatics J

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During the last decade, the living lab and co-creation concepts have started being blended with the Responsible Research and Innovation approach, aiming to evaluate potential societal anticipations toward fostering an inclusive RRI behavior. Teaching co-creation concept and living lab methodologies to university students has started been considered as valuable for future researchers along with the demand of companies and public sectors which turn toward user-center techniques for inspiration to develop innovative and services. To this end, the scientific publications presenting work on teaching co-creation and living lab methodologies are not so many while there are no published research studies on experiential learning activities for teaching co-creation and living lab approaches to university students. This study presents a course based on living labs and co-creation methodologies through experiential learning activities, consisted of four different lectures and an open event. The study involves stakeholders from the academia, the citizens, and the public sector. The results show that lectures with the participation of end-users were the most enjoyable. Furthermore, students thought that they learned the most when they first met the end-users. This lecture was perceived as a successful way to gain methodical knowledge for user-centered design and software development.

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Teilhabe durch Co-Creation

Eckhardt,

Krüger

2023

Sozialwissenschaften Und Berufspraxis

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ThessAHALL—A Life-Long Learning Programme for the Social Inclusion of “Early-Stage” Older Adult Researchers

Abstract: Aiming at limiting the risk of ageism & social exclusion of older adults in society, the Thess-AHALL looks at co-design and open science solutions for social inclusion for the ageing population.

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Digital Co-Creation in Socially Sustainable Smart City Projects: Lessons From the European Union and Canada

Digital Co-Creation in Socially Sustainable Smart City Projects: Lessons From the European Union and Canada

Teaching university students co-creation and living lab methodologies through experiential learning activities and preparing them for RRI

Teilhabe durch Co-Creation

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