Wide Open Network for Development and Research in Maritime Industries Project Summary WONDERMAR, forming a thematic network of European maritime key-companies, will improve the systematic exchange of information in the European maritime community and multiply information to outside of the RTD community into regional settings. It will encourage interoperability between companies, take-up of new information and communication technologies and thus fast exploitation. WONDERMAR organises 5 public workshops as a forum for three expert groups working on a “Shipbuilding Information Society Technology Review” covering the three areas “design”, “manufacturing/assembly” and “logistics/supply chain management”. The technology reviews will reflect the State of the Art, Standards and Protocols, Economic potential and ICT Gaps. Further dissemination will be ensured by maintaining a project web site forming an essential and sustainable part of the marine information infrastructure. Results will also serve the updating of the European Maritime Masterplan for R&D. Analysis of European maritime enterprise interaction have shown high economic potential through improvements in company interoperability as well as through adoption of eCommerce technologies. The five workshops will be organised by project partners in European maritime regions. The workshops are open to both project participants as well as local industry to provide a forum for the research projects to meet and learn from each other and from the industry as well as to demonstrate the regional industry the latest development and application of technology in the maritime field.
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Mr. J. Brodda
Balance Technology Consulting
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Mutual European and Japanese Initiative for Interoperability Project Summary Smart Meiji is a joint project to exchange information and contribute to smart card interoperability between EU and Japan by:
launching a strong co-operation platform to promote the use of the smart card;
maximising interoperability of smart card systems on specific issues such as contactles and security;
organising joint workshops bridging European researchers (Eurosmart association and eEurope traiblazers groups) and Japanese experts (NMDA Association and other professional representative structurs);
enabling a validation of the work by competent technical committees and certification bodies (e.g: DCSSi, BSI, CESG, MITI...);
disseminating information and knowledge through high level conferences, regular Newsletters and mutual websites.
Financial Transactional IC Card Reader workshop and dissemination activities Project Summary The aim of this project is to ensure a wide dissemination of FINREAD technical specifications among industrial manufacturers, banks, payment systems and other service providers such as : health organisations, transport authorities, as well as retailers and consumers. This action will be carried out through several initiatives: seminars and events, brochures, further standardisation work through a CEN/ISSS workshop.
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Global Education in Manufacturing - Europe Project Summary The focus of the project is to create enterprise and product architects that can implement digital business and extended products. Specifications for a curriculum in manufacturing strategy at Masters level will be developed. GEM-EUROPE will cover digital business along the supply chain, development of extended products and end of life planning and operation. It will have a modular structure allowing both training courses in industry and a full Master degree from a university.
The curriculum will be designed to comply with industry's needs. To obtain this, surveys will be conducted in selected industries and best practices will be studied. Training and education will have to be delivered in a way compatible with peoples work situation, i.e., it will have to be off-campus rather than on-campus based. This calls for new pedagogic approaches and new ways of delivery of training and education. The delivery will use ICT tools over the internet. The training will be based on application of multimedia. The curriculum will be validated by a demonstrator and workshops with industrial participation. It will be published on web and documented in a booklet.
The project is launched as an IMS initiative.
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Stiftelsen for industriell og teknisk forskning ved NTH - SINTEF
SINTEF
Norway
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ALFAMICRO Sistemas de Computadores LDA
Alfamicro
Portugal
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National University of Ireland, Galway
NUI, Galway
Ireland
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Verein zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung in der Freien Hansestadt Bremen e.V.
BIBA
Germany
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Norges teknisk naturvitenskapelige universitet
NTNU
Norway
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Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
EPFL
Switzerland
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Start Date : 1st January 2002
Duration : 30 months
IST-2001-33022
ICCI
Innovation co-ordination, transfer and deployment through networked Co-operation in the Construction Industry Project Summary ICCI is a cluster built upon a set of IST projects related to IT in construction, with the following goal: to improve harmonisation and coherency of research and development, and thereby to benefit efficiency in IST projects, assist knowledge transfer to industry, and reduce time to market of exploitation. Indeed, deploying and using IT in construction is nowadays less a matter of cutting edge technology, than a combination of technology, organisation, marketing, legal frameworks and social impacts. It is the intention of ICCI to start paving the way to such combination for the construction sector, providing with a concerted support for the future implementation and deployment of new technologies in the Construction industrial context. ICCI provides an umbrella for improved co-ordination and broader dissemination of their results of the six following projects: OSMOS (IST-1999-10491), eConstruct (IST-1999-10303), Divercity (IST-1999-13365), ISTforCE (IST-1999-11508), eLEGAL (IST-1999-20570), and GLOBEMEN (IST-1999-60002).
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