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In recent years, Hans Schaffers from the Helsinki School of Economics has worked as a living lab coordinator in the Collaboration @Rural project. During the opening of CEBIT (attended by Chancellor Merkel, Prime Minister Zapatero, and Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP), attention was given to the Collaboration @Rural project. Special focus was placed on the living lab pilot in South Africa, featuring the story of Christina Marule, a shop owner from Limpopo. There is a video of the CEBIT event discussing the Collaboration @Rural project (found at 26:00 – 29:00 and 1:15:00 – 1:21:30).
The project resulted in the book "Living Labs for Rural Development," which was presented on 3 March at the final conference in Brussels. Chapters of the book can be downloaded from www.ejov.org.
