The purpose of COREALIS Focus Groups was to compile the user stories and high-level scenarios that would be further on implemented in each of the five COREALIS Living Labs (Valencia, Piraeus, Antwerp, Livorno, Haminakotka).

Each of the five focus groups, consisted of small/medium sized groups of participants corresponding, in terms of profile, expertise and interest, to the COREALIS innovation pillars, i.e.:

• circular economy principles in the port-city strategy,
• improvement of the port intermodality towards improvement of environmental footprint,
• operational efficiency and capacity,
• cooperation of port-city stakeholders and
• transformation into an innovation hub

to be fulfilled in the specific Living Lab. The focus groups included coordinated brainstorming sessions but also co-design inspired hands-on sessions for the creation of the COREALIS user stories and scenarios.

The outputs of the task have been made publicly available in interactive platform of Trello. This way, the project outputs were made visible from an early stage, triggering stakeholders in the local vicinity of the COREALIS LLs but also beyond this and allowing for a maximum visibility of the developed scenarios across all consortium partners.

REGISTRATION:

Participation was free of charge but registration was mandatory for booking your seat. The registration process had been made through the following links  (each Focus Group required its own registration):