Integrating Living Labs with Future Internet Experimental Platforms for Co-creating Services within Smart Cities Hans Schaffers 1 , Annika Sällström 2 , Marc Pallot 3 , José M. Hernández-Muñoz 4 , Roberto Santoro 1 , Brigitte Trousse 3 1 ESoCE Net, Rome, Italy {hschaffers, rsantoro}@esoce.net 2 CDT, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden {annika.sallstrom@cdt.ltu.se} 3 INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France {Marc.Pallot, Brigitte.Trousse}@inria.fr 4 Telefónica I+D, Madrid, Spain {jmhm@tid.es} Abstract This paper examines the potential integration of Living Labs concepts of open and user driven innovation with Future Internet experimentally driven research approaches, in order to accelerate the user-driven development of Future Internet enabled services towards Smart Cities. Two key issues are underlying this integration: strengthening user involvement in experimental Internet research, and providing access to common resources such as testbed facilities and living lab resources. To explore the opportunities for such integration, three case studies from current FP7-ICT projects are discussed: SmartSantander, TEFIS and ELLIOT. A framework is proposed facilitating the sharing of resources offered by existing Smart City platforms, testbeds and living labs facilities as a basis for partnership agreements implementing open innovation approaches for Smart Cities. Keywords Future Internet, Experimental Facilities, Living Labs, Experimentation, Internet of Things, Smart Cities 1 Introduction Experimenting and evaluating Future Internet (FI) technologies, services and user scenarios is not a trivial challenge due to the complexity of issues and diversity of stakeholders. This is especially true when different research communities are involved in this process through different methodology traditions such as ‘Future Internet Research and Experimentation’ (FIRE), ‘Living Labs’, ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) and ‘Smart Cities’. Further to this, engaging all stakeholders including communities of users/citizens for co-creating societal important Future Internet enabled services makes it even more complex. Today, involving users in research, design and innovation processes constitutes a fast growing topic as shown by the rapid growth of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL, www.openlivinglabs.eu) with currently more than 200 Living Labs. However, Living Labs need technology platforms such as the ones proposed by the FIRE community, where stakeholders jointly can co-create and evaluate new scenarios such as energy management, smart mobility, environment monitoring and homecare services that contribute to turn traditional cities into Smart Cities. The challenge is therefore to identify how to properly articulate Living Labs with FIRE and IoT testbeds in order to make sure that innovative services enabled by the Future Internet will meet the expectations and desires of user communities. This paper studies emerging insights and experiences regarding the integration of Living Labs, Future Internet and Internet of Things platforms targeting service innovation, based on FP7-ICT project cases from TEFIS, SmartSantander and ELLIOT. A key objective is to propose a framework towards the development of Smart Cities experimental environments based on such