Workpackages and initial approach

According to our intial workshop in Metz on june 9th, 2010 we declined our project in differents WP (workpackages)

This is a basis for our discussion, we have to work a lot to be pertinent and not to forget important inputs

• 4 target populations
  

1. R&D - labs and universities
2. Enterprises
3. Business support organisations
4. end Users =  Elderly

• 2 main pre requisites
  

1. Innovation
2. Eco compliance

• 2 transversal workpackages (WPT) :

1. WPT1: Project management
2. WPT2: Communication

• Several transversal workpackages (WP)

1. WP1: state of art / benchmarking between participating regions
2. WP2: networking
3. WP3: studying behaviours of targets
4. WP4: studying the food / products / services
5. WP4: Toolkit
6. WP5: market specification
7. WP6: Tests
8. WP7: Transferring

Hoping our comments

Comments

[Paula]

Dear Francois,

Thank you very much for this info. I agree with teh target population and entities, and the pre-requisites.

Regarding WP, I think that 9 WP for a project of 2 yeras are maybe too many. In my opinion WP7: transferring can be included in a more general and transversal WP.
In this sense, we can have WP0: Management, several specific WPs and the last WP can be called WPn Knowledge management. There, we can include the following tasks:

-Scientific and industrial advice (this will include advice from both academia and industry regarding teh current situation, may be it overlaps a little bit with teh state of the art of Wp1)
-Dissemination activities (publications, conferences, web page....)
-Transferring (the knowledge adquired during the project to industry, possible entrepreneurs, society...)

Of course, it is only a suggestion.

what are the activities foreseen in WP2 networking?

Best regards
paula