Expert opinion, and advisory services

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(% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)**Description: **Expert(s) who have long-standing practical and/or scientific experience in the field of enquiry provide(s) a well-founded written or oral answer for your questions, including the ethics domain/ ethics guidelines, and offer(s) advisory services on the use of specific equipment. Expert(s) are discussing ideas and problems from a different angle to respectfully challenge, test and refine ideas (e.g. as devil´s advocate looking for problems). Qualified and traceable arguments in favor of and against a specific position in an applied issue to support decision-making and development activities. Professional work is a paid service, but “consultation” can be a free of charge service. In most cases it is done by Living Lab on its own, hosting organization personnel, subcontractor.

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(% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)**R&D service category-ies: **(%%)Project planning and management, Capacity building, Advisory services, Market and sales support

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(% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)**Key characteristics in Living Lab context:**

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* (% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)Typically consists of one-to-one relationship between the customer and the expert, but may include opinions from multiple experts.

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* (% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)Internal or external experts (local, national and international experts)

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* (% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)Multidisciplinary collaboration/Pool of experts

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(% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)**Objectives:**

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* (% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)Offer advice on** **UX or usability studies,

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* (% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)Consulting care solutions (ICT and devices), in specific/narrow fields in which Living Lab has experts (e.g., energy consumption calculations),

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* (% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)Consulting on consent and ethics requirement and processes,

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* (% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)Consulting technical solutions (ICT, medical and other devices, sensors, wearables, health apps, machine learning, medical engineering)

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* (% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)Consulting legal issues, networking and contacting people (e.g., doctors, academia, pharmacy, healthcare professionals, policy makers, local ecosystem actors), research ideas,

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* (% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)Innovation management, interventions,

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* (% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)Creation of training materials and processes

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(% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)**Methods: **One to one and group** **discussion**, **advisory** **board, expert identification

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(% lang="en-US" style="line-height:107%" %)**Tools/Online tools: **ethical tools, training materials

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