Frugal Innovation by Citizens for Citizens

Project Information

FRANCIS

Grant agreement ID: 101006220

DOI

10.3030/101006220

Project closed

EC signature date 27 November 2020

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 30 April 2025

Funded under

• SCIENCE WITH AND FOR SOCIETY

Total cost

€ 2 215 638,75

EU contribution

€ 2 215 638,75

Coordinated by

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (10)

First policy brief

Short project report for political stakeholders

Results and learnings (input for guideline) [

This report will summarize the overall intervention trial results and learnings as input for the guideline.

Citizen Frugal Innovation guideline

A guideline report will be prepared based on the project results that will be accessible under Creative Commons license. This report will include a checklist, relevant figures, and structured text based on FRANCIS research. It will have examples of what has been done, and how the different resources used in those examples can be used in different contexts.

Evaluation report

Report on the RRI-SDG evaluation of the Frugal Innovation activities in FRANCIS

Final CFI framework and recommendations

External report providing the final framework for Citizen Frugal Innovation with first-hand insights on sustainable collaboration for Frugal Innovation, including inputs and recommendations for the guideline.

Final policy brief

Short project report for political stakeholders.

RRI-SDG impact assessment instructions

Instructions on how to do the RRI-SDG impact evaluation, including final framework

Integrated RRI-SDG framework

Impact evaluation framework for Citizen Frugal Innovation related to the MoRRI indicators and the United Nations’ SDG

Participating data (input for guideline)

This report will present key statistics on challenge participation such as the background and the number of the participants, their type of involvement (Participant vs. Supporter) and the number of their online interactions with facilitators, buddies and mentors. In addition, the report will capture lessons learned on platform design and use for future Citizen Frugal Innovation challenges.

Toolbox update (input for guideline)

An update of the toolbox will be included in the guideline that is published at the end of the project.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Frugal Innovations

Each challenge will deliver at least five Frugal Innovation concepts supported by a prototype and a draft business model. Three of these concepts will receive funding for their commercialization after the end of the challenge.

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan (DMP)

The DMP describes the data management life cycle for the data collected processed andor generated by the project The deliverable will evolve during the project lifetime The DMP will include the selection of a suitable data repository

Other (3)

Go live of the platform

The challenge is live; citizens can now register on the platform, present their idea on it and profit from IT support as well as scientific facilitation and industry coaching.

Challenge material and CFI toolbox

The material created in Task 3.1 informs citizens about Frugal Innovation and FRANCIS challenges. The toolbox includes training on relevant methods, illustrations of method flows, case studies and templates. The second challenge will start with an updated version of the material and the toolbox.

Platform training

The main properties such as platform settings, corporate design and content have been set up on the public landing page. The training will first be delivered to administrators, facilitators, students and industry coaches (online and during plenary meetings), then to challenge participants (online and during challenge phase 1 events), supported by the students (challenge buddies).

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Social media channels

The social media channels used by FRANCIS will be ready in month 3 The project website will present the project objectives partners and activities It will go online in month 3 Regular updates will keep it up to date until the end of the project and beyond

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (2)

How Frugal Innovation can empower citizens to make their life simpler and more sustainable. Insights from two ongoing initiatives

Author(s): C Antuña-Rozado, L Wohlfart, V Gandikota, M Åkerman, Henning Duderstadt
Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Issue 1122, 2022, Page(s) 012063, ISSN 1755-1307
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1122/1/012063

Mastering citizen involvement in international open innovation challenges: Interim lessons learned of the FRANCIS project

Author(s): Liza Wohlfart, Carmen Antuña Rozado, Rachel O'Boyle, Venkata Gandikota, Tina Klages, Gaye Pocan, Renaud Bissling, Adrian Sins, Reny Kiryakova, Suze Krishnan-Barman
Published in: Procedia Computer Science, Issue 237, 2024, Page(s) 899-912, ISSN 1877-0509
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2024.05.178

Conference proceedings (1)

Driving Citizen Frugal Innovation: Leveraging Insights of the FRANCIS Project to Improve the Engagement of Marginalized Groups in Innovation Challenges

Author(s): Liza Wohlfart, Adrian Sins, Carmen Antuña Rozado, Martin Maga
Published in: AHFE International, Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2024
Publisher: AHFE International
DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1004722