Partners and friends

A living lab should have partners in research, business and the public sector as well as a user community.

Management

From the kick-off in Aurora cinema

The main owner of the Living Lab is Northern Reseach institute. The management is shared with the sister company Norinnova, an innovation company.
The lab is organised as a project, but with no defined end date.

Norut - Northern Research institute Tromsø, the ICT department - responsible for administration and technology
Norinnova - responsible for innvation

Partners

Far North Living Lab's partners include a broadband provider, film and game producers, festivals, scenes and public intsitutions working with creative youth and music.

Bredbåndsfylket - Provider of fibre optic network
Innovation Norway - Investor; public
Original Film - Film producer; shorts and documentaries
Aurora kino Fokus - Cinema with digital theatres
Playfish - producer of social games
Tvibit - youth film house
Aurora filmlyd - Film sound company
Insomnia - Festival for future music and tecno culture
Driv - Student house with scenes
Competence centre for rock - regional public competence centre for rock
NUFF - Youth film festival
Yoghurt - incubator for creative youth
Digital centres - Digital rooms around the county connected to the fibre optic network of Bredbåndsfylket

Friends - also co-operating

World Opera - a project exploring innovations in Opera; played on a distance
Love OD Communications - musicians and artists