Welcome to the FRANCIS Project!
This Frugal innovation by Citizens for Citizens project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101006220.
FRANCIS
FRANCIS’ consortium includes seven partners from six European countries – Fraunhofer from Germany, VTT from Finland, Finnish non-profit organization InnoFrugal, The Behavioural Insights Team from the United Kingdom, the French tech startup Agorize and two industrial enterprises, HELIOZ from Austria and Turkey’s BSH Home Appliances.
The FRANCIS project aims to develop frugal innovations by citizens for citizens within the scope of open innovation challenges.
This includes establishing a scientific foundation with recommendations on how to involve different participant groups in the challenges and how to encourage the shared development of ideas.
This project will run two open innovation challenges, each mentored by an industry partner, who supports the participants in detailing their ideas.
Challenges
Launched in February 2021, the first phase of the project in 2021 will establish a scientific foundation with recommendations on how to involve different participants groups in challenges and how to encourage the shared development of ideas. The second phase, which will take place in 2022 and 2023, will run two open innovation challenges, each mentored by an industry partner, who supports the participants in detailing their ideas.
The scope of the first challenge will be the application area of the culinary world and home care. Focused target groups are troubled families, minimalistic living people and elderly people living alone. During the second challenge round the application area solar disinfection will be focused. Target groups are minimalistic consumers, low-/middle-income households in (semi-)rural areas, people in refugee camps and micro-entrepreneurs. Target countries are Turkey, Germany, India, Egypt, Bangladesh and Uganda.
Lessons learned from the challenges will be incorporated into the citizen frugal innovation framework at the end of the project, so that they can serve as a guide for future frugal innovation initiatives.
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FRANCIS – Frugal innovations by the people for the people
Frugal innovations Demand for affordable yet high-quality solutions is soaring. Fraunhofer and VTT, two of Europe's most renowned research organisations, joined forces with manufacturing companies and other partners to determine what innovations would benefit society...
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Project Coordinator
Liza Wohlfart
Fraunhofer IAO
Email: liza.wohlfart@iao.fraunhofer.de
Communication and Dissemination Manager
Venkata Gandikota
InnoFrugal
Email: venkata@innofrugal.org
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Here's a key milestone in the FRANCIS project - “On Sep 17th, 2021 the first Citizen Science Round table took part within the scope of FRANCIS. It was a pleasure to exchange with German citizen representatives about their experiences with engaging different citizen groups in public engagements"
The results of the deliberations, will be implemented in the project deliverable Citizen Frugal Innovation Framework, where the project members will sum up new recommendation for future frugal innovation initiatives with citizens.
Our gratitude to the experts who proffered their time and expertise for this valuable project.
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One of the key goals or objective of "the FRANCIS project" is to build a base for citizen participation in any kind of future project, that will ideate and generate concrete frugal innovation ideas, that can impact living of common men and women.
We call it the “Citizen Frugal Innovation Toolbox”
This will endeavor setting up suitable innovation methods (call it a framework, or an SOP) to support citizens with methods, templates and training material, that will eventually foster inspiration.
This is intended to support the design of future Frugal Innovation project initiatives and so to reduce the initial effort for the organization of such initiatives. Any future innovation project will have a swift TAT, as the conceptual framework is in place!
More on this exciting project.
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About Citizens can join the challenges via an online platform as well as face-to-face events. Scientists run workshops during the challenges that offer method training. In addition, each participating...
The kind of democratization which the FRANCIS project intends, is in such examples, that are prevalent in parts of the world! - Read on...
Around the world, “frugal innovations” are solving problems the U.S. has yet to overcome. #InnovationForEveryone
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Our gratitude to the experts who proffered their time and expertise for this valuable project.
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The results of the deliberations, will be implemented in the project deliverable Citizen Frugal Innovation Framework, where the project members will sum up new recommendation for future frugal innovation initiatives with citizens.
Here's a key milestone in the FRANCIS project - “On Sep 17th, 2021 the first Citizen Science Round table took part within the scope of FRANCIS. It was a pleasure to exchange with German citizen representatives about their experiences with engaging different citizen groups.."
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