Project: lda large Scale Demonstrator in Athens

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Moritz Fontaine

bavAIRia e.V.

Fontaine@bavAIRia.net

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Accordingly, the key objectives of the project are to:

• demonstrate the potential for mobile technologies in the tourism sector

• develop the potential of the demonstrator for scalability and adaptation to any region in Europe

• address the key societal challenges of preserving and exploiting cultural heritage, addressing environmental impacts of tourism in remote areas as well as safety issues related to travel in remote areas

The project will develop a mobile application for tourists travelling along the European Cultural Routes of the Via Claudia Augusta, running from northern Italy through to Bavaria in Germany, and the Way of St. James in the north of Spain. The mobile application will provide three kinds of services:

• cultural heritage services, including a digital passport with certification of completed routes and location specific cultural information;

• safety services with location monitoring and travel and weather information and advice;

• environmental services with information on local green initiatives such as bicycle and electric car hire and eco-accommodation booking.

The challenge will be to develop a system that combines database, location and communication and which is capable of updating and integrating new data from different sources which can be accessed both on- and off-line in order for tourists to avoid roaming charges and to overcome the lack of information due to scarce connectivity. These requirements will guide the technical design and implementation of the service. After a market analysis of existing mobile applications and a study of innovative mobile and location enhanced services, the project will define the data gathering template, design the mobile application requirements, define the interface between the data platform and mobile devices, including interoperability testing.

A wide range of stakeholders from the participating regions in Italy, Germany and Spain will be involved in the data gathering phase and throughout the project lifetime to ensure a strong and durable impact of the CULTWAyS mobile service application. Main actors involved will be local government administrations, public tourism agencies, professional associations, companies and local organisations.

The project consortium is also supported in the development of the mobile application by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute that will supervise the interoperability testing of the CULTWAyS mobile service.

Cultways partners:

• Trentino Sviluppo S.p.A.

• ENCADRE

• INNOVA

• FTS

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Ing. Luca Capra

Head of Enterprise and Innovation Dept. of Trentino Sviluppo

l.capra@trentinosviluppo.it

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The project aims to develop a sustainable mobile service application. In order to ensure its continuity and ongoing updating after the end of the project, the consortium will opt for an open system fostering its integration with other, already existing applications and with heterogeneous data sources (institutional and user-based information).

The main objectives of the LIMES large-scale demonstrator are:

• To develop the economic potential of cultural tourism

• To initiate inter-regional and inter-sector economic collaboration

• To make areas of tourist and business potential in the limes regions visible (“Visualization”) and making the public conscious of them

• To create innovations by means of market-oriented and cross-over approaches

• To initiate modern, digital public relations work

• To develop an app-based information and marketing platform for the European limes in 10 countries

• To inspect infrastructure for mobile, digital services and if necessary extend it

• To educate and train parties involved

• To promote European collaboration

The Roman limes is the only European cultural heritage which connects 10 European countries: From the North-West in the UK to the South East in Bulgaria it is a unique monument for many regions and, in part, already a designated UNESCO world heritage. European history becomes alive following the limes. Through the LIMES large-scale demonstrator, this former fortification of the Roman Empire will become a beacon of future cultural tourism. In fact, only a small part of the limes is accessible at the moment as the limes runs through rural regions which are not fully developed for tourism. While the European limes countries, which include the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria, have numerous museums, historic routes, archaeological sites and hidden places of interest along the limes, these single places are not yet linked. Linking them though common mobile services offers an outstanding chance to raise the profile of, and bring more visitors to this unique heritage and, at the same time, to support the economic development of the rural areas it runs through by supporting new business and job creation.

A central element of the LIMES large-scale demonstrator is the implementation of a mobile information and service application for cultural tourism around the limes in Europe. This application is developed as a prototype for the three partner countries, Bulgaria, Austria and Germany and will form the technical base for an extension of the information system to all limes countries in Europe.

The LIMES App will provide an innovative tool for the perceptibility of the Roman limes in Europe and, it will create a multinational instrument for the collection and output of limes- and tourism-relevant data to several “mobile” and also “stationary” information systems. The first version of the LIMES App will be presented at the International Tourism Fair in March 2013 in Berlin (ITB), Germany and subsequently tested.

To promote and disseminate the LIMES action and the App, a lot of activities have been implemented in the three partner regions. This includes workshops with stakeholders at regional level, talks and meetings in order to reach as many people as possible.



Impact – Benefits

The project will contribute to the valorisation of sustainable tourism in all European countries along the Roman limes and support the mobility in rural areas through the development of innovative mobile services. The project will focus on developing mobile services and creating new, innovative value chains. Three countries (Germany, Austria and Bulgaria) will take the lead and include the other seven limes countries through their existing partnerships. Transfer activities will play an important role in order to make mobile services for the tourism sector available in all countries.

It is expected to address 70.000 people interested in cultural tourism in the three partner countries as well as 20.000 local actors (as users of the mobile services and as ambassadors of their regions). Other beneficiaries will be companies, specifically innovative start-ups, and regional developers. At least 15 new companies will be supported in the framework of the project and around 10 regional agencies will directly benefit from the project outcomes. Additionally, the project targets 650.000 € to be invested by the tourism sector in the regions along the limes.


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http://limes.per-rlp.de/?lang=en

Dr. Franz Schafranski

Franz.Schafranski@per-rlp.de
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LIMES partners:

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  Projektentwicklungsgesellschaft des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz (PER)
  
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  MarVis Gesellschaft für Raummarketing G.b.R
  
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  INI-Novation Bulgaria
  
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  Municipality of Ruse, Bulgaria
  

By setting up networks of public authorities and demonstrating the potential for implementation, Europe-wide, of the services and business models developed in the project, Grow Mobile aims to promote a broad uptake of innovative mobile services that help address social challenges. In this way, the project will increase the knowledge base to facilitate large-scale service offers that are dynamic, scalable and replicable and can be implemented and sustained through public-private partnerships.

As the first step, the Grow Mobile partners will carry out an analysis of the framework conditions of the tourism sector in their respective regions and of good practices and experience from other European regions. On this basis, they will define the technical and content requirements for the large-scale demonstrators.

Then, in the regions of Leipzig (Germany) and Varna (Bulgaria), mobile applications will be developed, while in the regions of Kyustendil (Bulgaria) and Međimurje (Croatia), integrated destination management platforms will be set up.

During the pilot implementation of the large-scale demonstrators, training for stakeholders and operators will be offered, based on training guidelines jointly developed by the partners.

Throughout this entire process, the so-called Grow Mobile Task Force will monitor the implementation and effects of the established services, organise workshops to showcase the services and carry out promotional activities.

The actors involved in the Grow Mobile project include regional administrations, service providers from cultural industries, tourism stakeholders and entrepreneurs (especially SMEs). The Grow Mobile partners will also engage with a wider audience of public and private stakeholders to establish a public-private partnership.

The project partners are:

Aufbauwerk Region Leipzig GmbH

INI-Novation GmbH

REDEA – Regional Development Agency Međimurje

Regional Government Kyustendil

Municipality of Varna





Impact – Benefits

At the end of the project, the partners will have obtained a thorough understanding of the requirements, needs and potential of their regions in terms of innovative services in the tourism sector. A good practice catalogue will foster the improvement of the business support systems in the partner regions, and specifically developed destination management systems and mobile tourist services will have positive impact on local businesses as well as on tourists visiting the regions.

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Silvana Rückert

Director of Aufbauwerk Region Leipzig GmbH

rueckert@aufbauwerk-leipzig.com

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A scalable, heterogeneous and trustable large-scale real-world experimental facility will be deployed. One of the main objectives of the project is to fuel the use of the Experimentation Facility among the scientific community, end users and service providers in order to reduce the technical and societal barriers that prevent the IoT concept to become an everyday reality. To attract the widest interest and demonstrate the usefulness of the SmartSantander platform, a key aspect that will be addressed is the inclusion of a wide set of applications. Application areas will be selected based on their high potential impact on the citizens as well as to exhibit the diversity, dynamics and scale that are essential in advanced protocol solutions, and will be able to be evaluated through the platform. Thus, the platform will be attractive for all involved stakeholders: Industries, communities of users, other entities that are willing to use the experimental facility for deploying, and assessing new services and applications, and Internet researchers to validate their cutting-edge technologies (protocols, algorithms, radio interfaces, etc.).

Project partners:

• Telefonica I+D

• Alcatel-Lucent Italy s.p.a.

• Alcatel-Lucent Spain S.A.

• Ericsson d.o.o.

• TTI Norte

• Universidad de Cantabria

• University of Surrey

• Universität zu Lübeck

• Lancaster University

• Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique

• Computer Technology Institute

• Alexandra Instituttet A/S

• Santander Council

• Sociedad para el Desarrollo de Cantabria

• University of Melbourne

In response to citizen demand and driven by the rising importance of three main aspects of governance, this new concept for cities is taking hold to a) offer a better quality of life, b) minimize environmental impacts, and c) reduce costs.

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José M. Hernández-Muñoz

Telefónica I+D

Emilio Vargas 6

28043

Tel: +34 91 337 4020

Fax: +34913374212

jmhm@tid.es

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