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PITCH!© is supporting business model educators and facilitators to provide engaging, learner-centered, business modeling experiences by offering a hybrid- and experiential-learning approach to business model education and training.

Moderated and guided by a mentor bot that challenges learners to design viable and scalable business models centered on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), PITCH!© is an online-offline serious card game, leveraging research-based content on the design of sustainable business models and business model patterns.

Through a gamified and collaborative learning approach, PITCH! is augmenting traditional learning practices with web-based learning delivery, in a way that improves learners’ support, engagement, and outcomes.

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The DTx Digital Transformation CoLab aims to address the new paradigms in products, services, and human machine interface and the consequent changes in industry and society, fostering collaborative research and technological development between multidisciplinary academic knowledge and a wide range of industrial competences. DTx projects will address digitalization in product design, systems development and manufacturing solutions, and will be selected according to the CoLab technological roadmaps and the partners challenges.

The DTx CoLab is a non-profit organization with 18 participating entities, including three universities and 13 companies. SCIL contributes with knowledge on business models applied to the prospective projects

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DIANA – Digital Intelligent Assistant for Nursing Applications supports caregivers while improving the life and safety of the elderly and impaired by providing novel solutions for action and behavior recognition using AI-powered 3D sensors. It will provide assistance in numerous complex tasks such as monitoring the safety of patients 24/7, controlling walks at night, responding to alarms from existing sensors, supporting activities of daily living, monitoring health trends of patients, and visualizing this data.

In addition, this project addresses specifically the toilet, where hardly any supporting technologies exist. The visit to a toilet is part of the daily routine and takes a high amount of nursing time. DIANA has the unique goal of increasing people’s autonomy and digitizing the help of nurses. This will have immediate positive consequences on job performance as well as raise the efficiency to 30%. The DIANA project builds on years of research by the consortium, which the Smart City Innovation Lab is part of. 

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The Integrated Smart GRID Cross-Functional Solutions for Optimized Synergetic Energy Distribution, Utilization Storage Technologies (inteGRIDy) aims to integrate cutting-edge technologies, solutions and mechanisms in a scalable cross-functional platform connecting energy networks with diverse stakeholders, facilitating optimal and dynamic operation of the Distribution Grid (DG), fostering the stability and coordination of distributed energy resources and enabling collaborative storage schemes within an increasing share of renewables.

inteGRIDy tackles the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as the need for synergy to speed up the development process, and thus market introduction of novel digital services in the energy industry.

The Consortium, which the Smart City Innovation Lab is part of, comprises 30 partners. SCIL is responsible for business model innovation and facilitates the development of business models for smart grid solutions demonstrated by 8 pilot sites in 10 countries.

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The project me² developed a new market place for urban actors in which a local community of electric vehicle (EV) users and local smart meter (SM) owners were brought together through means of a local urban online community. The combination of these technologies in a community allowed to integrate mobility with electricity, to balance the grid, to reduce electricity costs, and to enable a feeling of local belonging. me2 enabled urban demand-side management, i.e. aimed to modify consumer demand for energy such as using less energy during peak hours in an urban community. The project was validated and optimized in two pilots in urban communities in Amsterdam and Lisbon.

The project was created due to the high consumption of energy produced from non-renewable sources, not enough grid capacity and the high demand of electricity in the peak hours.

The project ended in May 2018 and the Smart City Innovation Lab contributed to business model development, policy-strategy interplay and consumer behavior in the fields of mobility and energy.

The ergoscan analyses postures directly at the workplace, gives feedback and coaches a healthy sitting behaviour through the combination of sensors and data analytics. To improve the sitting behaviour of workers, the concept comprises of a five-day posture analysis at the workplace, an individual posture report, and online coaching to build and apply the knowledge.

This innovative concept from the analysis to tailor-made exercises and tips for correcting unhealthy postures wants to ensure a lasting change in behaviour.

The ergoscan was developed by the German startup Fitbase because 80% of German workers suffer from back pain, usually caused by unilateral postures. The Smart City Innovation Lab was testing the technology over several months to provide feedback.

OMEGA-X will develop an Energy Data Space that enables multiple actors sharing data and services while ensuring privacy, security and sovereignty. This will specifically address the current problem of low availability of data for innovative uses in the energy sector and beyond. https://omega-x.eu/