Intervento di Jean Barroca

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[co.05] Meet the cities: i progetti delle più importanti città europee verso una human smart

city / Meet the cities: the human-oriented projects of the most important European cities

di Martedì, 30 ottobre 2012 Consulta il programma di SCE2012

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Open Fundão Open Innovation for low density territories

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Cova da Beira Living LabMunicipality of Fundão

Key words: Open Innovation

Fundão, Portugal

CONTEXT: Fundão is a small municipality in the center of Portugal, suffering the problems of a low density territory and struggling to find solutions for today’s crisis. Under-30, with high level of education, have an unemployment rate of 30% and cannot find jobs in the region.

PROBLEM: How to attract talent and investments to recover the social and economic tissues of the territory?

LOW COST STRATEGY and LOW HANGING FRUIT STRATEGY

STRATEGY: Co-Createwith young creatives

STRATEGY: Open Fundão

SOLUTION: Living Lab

SOLUTION: FabLabRebuild with people

SOLUTION: CoWorkReuse

SOLUTION: Casas / OficinaRevitalize

SOLUTION: Rural SchoolRevitalize

REFLECTIONSProximity and agility are key success factor for rapid prototyping of solutions. Small cities are ideally sized for this experiments.

Bottom-up movements are only possible when political level is really committed to be open, transparent and coherent.