International journalists and bloggers specialized in energy and cleantech businesses and technologies were invited in Finland by Finnfacts organization with the focus on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
BaseN was one of the Finnish companies hosting the Blogger Tour in Helsinki in June 14, 2010. BaseN`s Software Engineer Topi Mikkola presented the BeAware project and demonstrated the Energy Life game with great interest from the blogger group.
Articles about the Blogger Tour available on: http://delicious.com/Finnfacts/cleantechtour0610
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BeAware networking event 11.6.2010  was an informal networking meeting with people from National consumer research center (NCRC), Widsen, Delsus and from the consortium HIIT and BaseN.
Giulio gave a demo of EnergyLife and Pirkka Åman presented the status and plan for user research in Trial 1. Then everybody just introduced themselves and what they are doing. We might do something with NCRC and the households that volunteered (ca. 460), e.g. NRCR could involve them in an energy efficiency campaigns the are running.

The Interactive Institute, Energy Design, has been invited to participate in a reference group for smart grids, arranged by the Energy Markets Inspectorate. Their government assignment includes investigating how to facilitate for the use of smart meters and smart grids. The first meeting with the reference group will be held in Stockholm, June 30.

The first trail is about to be launched, with a total of 24 test persons divided between Finland and Italy. The total duration of the tests will be 4 months and be concluded in September 2010.

BeAware and InTube met in Stockholm, April 12, at a workshop and shared experiences and talked about future possible collaborations. The BeAware team got a better understanding on what was the state of the art with InTube’s project and the InTube project team got valuable design tips on how to design a good user interface for their user application. We also had a discussion about if we saw any benefits of sharing knowledge from each other’s projects. And BeAware will evaluate the developed simulation layer that InTube has built.