In 2014 a project called Living Lab in El Salvador (LLinES) started with the aim to establish the infrastructur for a Living Lab in El Salvador. This project is structured in two phases, whereby the first phase is intended to find a community and possible risk mitigation strategies, to evaluate their applicability and acceptance in the community, how these strategies can be improved and to investigate the infrastructural conditions necessary to implement the risk mitigation strategies. The acceptance and the application of the risk mitigation strategies is surveyed with questionnaires. The infrastructural conditions in the community are surveyed to look for possible problems in the implementation of the risk strategies as well as how they can be solved. The first phase began in August 2014 and ends in July 2016 and is funded by the German Ministry for Science and Education. In the second phase it is intended to get the Living Lab started. The second phase is not part of a funding yet, but it is planed to finance this phase with additional funding.
The project consisted originally by members of the University of El Salvador, University of Koblenz-Landau, CSIR Meraka Institut South Africa, ReGLAN Health and Logistics and of members of the Action Team 6 Follow Up Initiative. Originally a informal cooperation was discussed and started at a meeting of the AT6FUI in Bonn in 2012 with representatives of the INS-MINSAL, the University of Koblenz-Landau and El Salvador and the Ambassador of El Salvador in Germany, Anita Cristina Escher Echeverría.
After this first phase it is planed to get a Living Lab started with additional funding.
In the case of a possible Living Lab in El Salvador it is intended to find solutions for the problem of CKD in the area of pesticide exposure mitigation. The working area is in the fields of increasing risk literacy, workflow optimization in the agricultural working process, like pesticide reduction, precision farming, pesticide exposure strategies, as well as in the area of optimization of medical resources and early warning. Which strategy is applicable and apply able for the community members and how the solutions can be improved must be developed in colaboration between the stakeholders and the community members. As possible stakeholders can act ministries, local authorities, scientists, educational facilities and everybody who can deliver a part for a solution to solve the problem of CKD.
The project consisted originally by members of the University of El Salvador, University of Koblenz-Landau, CSIR Meraka Institut South Africa, ReGLAN Health and Logistics and of members of the Action Team 6 Follow Up Initiative. Originally a informal cooperation was discussed and started at a meeting of the AT6FUI in Bonn in 2012 with representatives of the INS-MINSAL, the University of Koblenz-Landau and El Salvador and the Ambassador of El Salvador in Germany, Anita Cristina Escher Echeverría.
After this first phase it is planed to get a Living Lab started with additional funding.
In the case of a possible Living Lab in El Salvador it is intended to find solutions for the problem of CKD in the area of pesticide exposure mitigation. The working area is in the fields of increasing risk literacy, workflow optimization in the agricultural working process, like pesticide reduction, precision farming, pesticide exposure strategies, as well as in the area of optimization of medical resources and early warning. Which strategy is applicable and apply able for the community members and how the solutions can be improved must be developed in colaboration between the stakeholders and the community members. As possible stakeholders can act ministries, local authorities, scientists, educational facilities and everybody who can deliver a part for a solution to solve the problem of CKD.