Territories of Tomorrow Living Lab
Territories of Tomorrow Living Lab gathers, under the auspices of Saint-Laurent de Neste competences pole dedicated to heritage and knowledge technologies (cave of Gargas – INITI-TIC Project / numerical abbey of Escaladieu, Midi-Pyrenées) on the one hand and of Territories of Tomorrow Foundation on the other hand, a village of knowledge and an archaeology centre in Provence - Côte d’Azur, a reflection space dedicated to high speed broadband Internet in Alsace, as well as the European Centers of New Technologies (CENT) of which the first will see its building site starting next year in Privas, Ardèche. Territories of Tomorrow Living Lab objectives are as follows:
- a prospective discussion on regional planning, development of their identity and technological innovation management, connection with the great international institutions
- a better tourist, economic and cultural valorization of heritage, notably through Tourists Mobility (using technologies of Geographic Information systems, geolocalisation and geotagging) and of the new forms of cultural mediation (using virtual reality, enhanced reality and 3D modeling, through Numeric Interpretation Centers).
- constitution, within the cistercian abbey of Escaladieu, of a European Knowledge Centre about "Information Technologies and Heritage"
- development of the Knowledge village of Peyresq (Hautes-Alpes) in a state-of-the-art research centre devoted to Knowledge Economy.
- creation of an experimentation and reflection space on the uses of high speed broadband Internet in Strasbourg
- development of European and Euromediterranean projects in connection particularly with the Archaelogy Centre of Var in Draguignan
- creation of partnerships between researchers and economic actors through the European Centers of New Technologies (CENT), such as Privas’ Cent (Ardèche). With more than 10 years of local development policy based on infotechnologies,Saint-Laurent de Neste county has carried out many projects in the fields of data processing, digitalization of heritage elements (RENABL Project) and tourism (ULYSSE, Hypercarta R&D projects), and geomatic (BRIDGE-IT, EDIT R&D projects). These projects were carried out by the two local structures enforcing the ICT development, the Centre Européen des Technologies de l’Iinformation en milieu Rural (www.cetir.net ) and the Maison du Savoir (www.maisondusavoir.fr ). We also have fully equipped infrastructures for creation, accompaniment and hosting of companies specialized in areas explored by the Living Lab, in particular the firm growing centre (www.zone-ppi.com).
Created by the European Network of digital Cities (www.villesnumeriques.org) and the European association of teachers and researchers ARENOTECH (www.arenotech.org) -a partner of MOSAIC and WEEST European projects-, Territories of Tomorrow Foundation accompanies economic and territorial actors and projects holders in the field of Knowledge Economy.
