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[edit] Workshop W1

• Title: "Enterprise interoperability & Concurrent Innovation for Collaboration and Competiviness in the Extended Enterprise"
• Organised by Uninova
• Co-Chairs: Ricardo Goncalves, Hugo Vieira (UNINOVA, Portugal), Man-Sze Li (IC Focus, UK), Steven Willmott (Univ. Polit. Catalunya, Spain)

 Goals of the Workshop

According to ICE’2007: “Increasing global competitive environment imposes the compelling need to identify new paradigms, methods, applications and technologies to better support creativeness and innovation. Open Innovation, Co-Creation Living Labs and Front-End Innovation are brand new paradigms addressing the entire product design and development process. Hence the future of Concurrent Enterprising lies within the context of integrated design of customisable products, comprehensive services, and flexible/adaptable organisations where individuals, groups, businesses and communities collaborate together within loosely or tightly coupled networks through the use of on-line shared workspaces.”

On the other hand, the EI community has produced an Enterprise Interoperability roadmap to identify the main areas of research in the domain of Enterprise Interoperability. “Among others, the EI roadmap grand challenges highlight the cross-domains dimension to Interoperability, the commoditisation of basic interoperability functions, the need to ensure that next-generation solutions using Enterprise Interoperability technologies are accessible to all enterprises, the importance of collaboration among enterprises in addressing Enterprise Interoperability problems, and the need to take into account the concerns of many small software developers and users scattered across Europe. It is also strongly advocated that Enterprise Interoperability research relates to - and potentially benefits from – the work of other research fields and therefore needs to be opened up by linking with other scientific domains and communities.

 Enterprise Interoperability (EI) and Concurrent Innovation (CI) are thus two complementary 
 research paradigms that, if joining efforts, can make a reality comprehensive collaboration, 
 especially when supported by a sound Services Utility (SU).

In this context, the objective of the workshop is to be a forum for presentation, analysis and discussion of the different advances related to EI and CI’s suitable reference architectures, methodologies, models, and frameworks to support collaboration and competitiveness in the extended enterprise when supported by a Services Utility (SU). This Workshop will have the form of a knowledge café, and experts will be invited to discuss on Enterprise Interoperability (EI), Concurrent Innovation (CI) and Services Utility (SU), taking as background the strategy i2010 from the European Commission for the 7FP.

The workshop will be set up in a real café environment where participants will be seated divided by several tables. Each table will have a café host that will guide the conversation. The participants will round for several tables in order to access and discuss different ideas with different people. At the end, table host will synthesize the main ideas to the global audience.

 Topics of the Workshop

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Reference architectures, methodologies and tools to support CI, EI and SU.
• Reference models for CI.
• ICEpedia from ESoCE-NET by Hermann Külnhe
• Model-Driven approaches to support architectures for CI.
• Profitability and business justification of CI.
• Human resources, Project Management and change management.
• Case study of relevant methods and tools in the industry, especially SMEs.

 Targeted Audience

The workshop is aimed at a broad audience of PhD, researchers, and industry professionals interested in the area of Concurrent Enterprising, specially focused on the emerging challenges of Concurrent Innovation concerning with enterprise interoperability problems.

 Workshop Programme

09.00h - 10.30h: Enterprise interoperability (EI) + Concurrent Innovation (CI)

• Welcome and objectives of the Workshop, UNINOVA
• Enterprise Interoperability Roadmap: Scientific and Research challenges, UNINOVA
• ICEpedia and the challenges for Concurrent Innovation, ESoCE-NET
• Industry essentials for Collaborative Knowledge in a European wide community, CSTB
• SEEMseed Roadmap, tackling services for a Single European Information Space, UNINOVA

11.00h-12.30h: Collaboration and Competitiveness with Services Utility (SU): Knowledge Café

• End-to-End Service Utility. A visionary perspective, UPC
• Knowledge Cafe on: Enterprise interoperability (EI) + Concurrent Innovation (CI) = Collaboration and Competiviness with Services Utility (SU)
• The Knowledge Café: What is it + Setup of groups/themes
• Discussion Groups

• Group 1 - Vision and Scientific Foundations for EI and SU (Chair UPC)
• Group 2 - Architectures and Platforms for End-to-End SU (Chair UNINOVA)
• Group 3 - Service Utility and Added Value Services (Chair CSTB)
• Group 4 – Collaboration and Competitiveness with Services Utility (SU) (Chair ESoCE-NET)

14.00h -16.00h: Knowledge Café (continuation)

• Knowledge Café discussion groups – continuation (1.00h)
• Report from each working group chair (10min/each)
• Integrated conclusions (20 min)

16:30 End of the Workshop (all participants go to La Fontaine & La Place rooms for the Workshops Roundtable and Keynote session)

[edit] Workshop W2

• Title: "Innovation in European Clusters on Space-based Applications"
• Organised by CASTLE and ENCADRE projects and supported by the Europe INNOVA initiative of the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry, Brussels.
• Co-Chairs: Bernhard Katzy, CeTIM, Leiden and Juergen Vogel, GruenderRegio M, Munch

 Goals of the Workshop

In recent years all over Europe satellite- and space-based application clusters have formed, mostly top-down structures, all driven by a new space boom carried by Europe's own Global Navgation Satellite System (GNSS) "Galileo" due in 20011/12.

What is the state those clusters are in, will they be able to respond in a flexible way to the world market challlenges for GNSS, will they be able to keep a big share of the probably up to 4 Billion EUR investment in Galileo, a big share of which is public money, in Europe?

Only a proper market development will be able to meet this challenge. This cannot and should not be done by technology push, but through market pull activities. Clearly, this aspect has been neglected all over Europe up to now. What is currently done about it and how to proceed is in the centre of discussion of this workshop.

ENCADRE (the European network of satnav/space clusters for applications development) meets here the day before, to agree on closer co-ordination of activities. The workshop is to give tangible recommendations and support to concrete joint activities of information exchange and market development. The afternoon’s “market session” evolves from morning’s discussion on networking and market identification / development. -> Go there for the latest news from the European Global Navigation Satellite System Galileo/EGNOS and to push satnav/space applications a step forward.

 Workshop Programme

Morning session: 09:00 – 12:30, Coffee Break 10:30

• Title: "Clusters: Management, competences and capabilities"
• Chair: Bernhard Katzy, CeTIM, Leiden; Rapporteur: Kerstin Roesel, GruenderRegio M, Munich

Short “incentives” from Europe’s leading satellite navigation application clusters (5-10 min each)

• Nikos Pantalos, Cluster Policies, DG ENTR, EC, Brussels
• Bernhard Katzy, CeTIM, Leiden
• Martin Haunschild, bavAIRia, Munich
• Philippe Moretto, TEAM Côte d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis
• Luis Ruiz, CNES, Toulouse
• Vittorio Cannas, Filas / Lazio
• Rémi Alquier, Telespazio

Interactive session with open and result-oriented discussions among all participants

Topics:

• European satellite navigation application (satnav) cluster study CETIM / analysis CASTLE: strong will to collaborate in Europe
• Unique selling propositions, profiles and strategies of the satnav clusters or how to structure and support clusters to react to today’s fast changing markets
• Cluster management: the key to innovativeness, compact, non-fractured structures and creation of improved innovation capabilities?
• Chances for mutual supplement of profiles and strategies.

Results expected:

• Perspectives for the clusters to improve management structures taking account of European dimension: act locally and think globally is maybe not sufficient
• Enhanced networking and exchange of best practice for new and better satnav collaborations in Europe.

Afternoon Session: 14:00 to 16:30

• Title: Clusters: Market creation/development, user group identification / demands
• Chair: Juergen Vogel, GruenderRegio M, Munich; Rapporteur: Olivier Rérolle, CeTIM, Paris.

Short incentive talks from leading initiatives to foster satnav markets and applications in Europe (5-10 min each)

• Alex Talacchi, Europe INNOVA, DG ENTR, EC, Brussels
• Jakob Rasmussen, living labs Europe, Copenhagen
• Robert Cockshott, Location&Timing KTNetwork, Teddington
• Laurent Londeix, Orange / France Telecom Group
• Bruno Naulais, ESA / ESTEC, Noordwijk.

The European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Galileo is a chance for Europe to develop an own application market ahead of the driving forces of new technologies. The political cluster structures are there. Do we use the combined market development chances appropriately?

Interactive session with open and result-oriented guided discussion among all participants.

Topics of discussion:

• Problematic of GNSS market development, European SatNav cluster network CASTLE, GruenderRegio M, as opening
• The clusters: a lot of pride in their technology assets and less in market development in Europe?
• From technology push to market pull: can the “living labs” ansatz help?
• How to support cluster market identification and development abilities?
• Tell financiers and venture capitalists about the chances of the GNSS market related to Galileo in Europe, or have we already lost their confidence?

Expected results:

• Ideas to jointly develop GNSS market in Europe
• Define a limited and focused collaboration project, tangible and with potential for image building based on EGNOS / GPS / Galileo.

16:30 End of the Workshop (all participants go to the plenary room for the Workshops Roundtable and Keynote session)

[edit] Workshop W3

• Title: "Virtual Project Management - Concepts, Trainings and Tools"
• Organised by: IBE – Institute for Business Engineering, University of Applied Science North-Western Switzerland and CeTIM – Centre for Technology and Innovation Management
• In conjunction with: Swiss Productivity Foundation, ECOSPACE Project, CoVES Project & VE-Forum
• Co-Chairs: Adrian Plüss and Charles Huber, IBE, Hermann Löh, Gordon Sung and Burak Sari, CeTIM

 Introduction

Traditional project management assumes that a project is well defined, has its fixed budget, tasks can be exactly planned and allocated, and the main task of project management is to control project progress according to plan. However, organisations and objectives for projects change rapidly: many projects are done in distributed settings, crossing organisational boundaries, and pursue opportunities for innovation and new markets. Assumptions of traditional project management are not any longer true: Projects often start with just an opportunity, a rough idea or problem recognition, about which different stakeholders need to develop a joint understanding, define objectives and negotiate approaches. For example the assignment of the project manager is often part of the negotiations. Only then work structure and roles and responsibilities can be elaborated. But even during project execution different coordination and management strategies are needed to allow efficient collaboration between members from different organisations, react to continuous changes e.g. of partners or team members, customer requirements, or suppliers, and inform and motivate the respective stakeholders. Next generation project management – we term it also “Virtual” Project Management – is needed to address these challenges, but little support for virtual project managers is currently available both through training and education and operatively through well adapted collaboration tools (ICT)

 Goals of the Workshop

The objectives of the workshop are:

• To jointly explore and verify the key issues of virtual project management and the profile and strategies of a successful virtual project manager.
• To assess productivity for virtual project management
• To present and discuss a training programme for virtual project management and its key modules
• To demonstrate, but also generate new ideas for collaboration tool designs specifically geared towards supporting the virtual project development cycle and collaboration and coordination in virtual project settings

 Target participants

The workshop is targeted towards all who manage or actively involved in projects, but also trainers and tool vendors supporting project management in all industries:

• In research and development
• In business development
• In knowledge-intensive consulting
• In distributed projects, companies, or public organisations
• Working with international customers or suppliers

 Workshop Programme

09:00 Welcome, Adrian Plüss, IBE, Gordon Sung and Hermann Löh, CeTIM

09:10 Self- productivity assessment for distributed project management (a productivity assessment module from Swiss productivity foundation,)Gordon Sung, CeTIM

09:40 Industry cases and discussions (findings from ECOSPACE and CoVES projects), Hermann Löh, Burak Sari and Gordon Sung, CeTIM

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Traditional vs. next generation project management- challenges and impacts (group discussion,)Adrian Plüss and Charles Huber, IBE

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Parallel sessions

Session A: Training modules to support Virtual Project Management, Adrian Plüss and Charles Huber, IBE Session B: Next generation collaboration tool support for Virtual Project Management (Demo and discussion), Hermann Löh, CeTIM and Jürg Amrein, VEA

16:00 Exchange of session results and wrap up

16:30 End of the Workshop (all participants go to the plenary room for the Workshops Roundtable and Keynote session)

[edit] Workshop W4

• Title: "New Collaboration Concepts and Scenarios for eProfessionals Living Labs"

• Organised by: ECOSPACE project, supported by the CORELABS Coordination Action and AMI@Work Communities
• Co-Chairs: Wolfgang Prinz and Marc Pallot

 Workshop Goals

• Get participants feedback on:
  • elements influencing new collaboration concepts and scenarios
  • ECOSPACE collaboration concepts and scenarios
• Prepare the foundations of the ECOSPACE eProfessionals community living lab
• Identify potential follow-up activities

 Introduction

ECOSPACE, with the support of CORELABS, is organizing a workshop on new collaboration concepts and scenarios that could be implemented into the AMI collaborative platform and more particularly to support collaboration among the Open Innovation Living Lab community members as well as within and among existing Living Labs which are members of the european Network of Living Labs (ENOLL).

Another major objective is to create the foundations of the ECOSPACE living lab for the development and co-creation of the most advanced e-professional collaborative platform on the planet.

As you may know, the ECOSPACE project is going to progressively include new collaboration functionalities into the AMI collaborative platform for all communities and more specifically to the Open Innovation Living Lab Community and for the distributed collaborative infrastructure enabling service sharing among the living labs in the ENOLL.

The full day workshop will provide an opportunity to be engaged into the discussion and further development of new radical collaboration concepts and scenarios as well as potential follow-up activities, such as:

• Collaborative Distance research framework
• Collaborative portal for community Living Labs
• ECOSPACE eProfessionals Living Lab

 Workshop Sessions
 -) Presentations about surveys and studies related to collaboration
 -) Open discussion on most relevant elements influencing new collaboration concepts and scenarios 
 -) Overview presentations on ECOSPACE new collaboration concepts and scenarios
 -) Open discussion on the usage of new collaboration concepts within community Living Labs
 -) Open discussion on the foundations of the ECOSPACE eProfessionals community Living Lab
 -) Wrap-up and conclusions

 Workshop Programme

9:00 Welcome & Introduction, Jean-Pierre Euzen, European Commission IST and Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer-FIT, ECOSPACE Project Coordinator

9:15 Introduction round of Participants and expectations, All participants

9:30 Surveys overview, Servane Crave, Organge-FTgroup, Kjetil Kristensen and Marc Pallot, ESoCE-NET

10:00 Discussion on the most important elements influencing new collaboration concepts and scenarios, by Working Groups

10.30 Coffee break

10.45 New collaboration concepts overview, Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer-FIT

11:15 Discussion on the usage of new collaboration concepts and scenarios within community Living Labs, by Working Groups

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 WG presentations and conclusions on the usage of new collaboration concepts and scenarios

14:40 Discussion on the collaboration portal of community Living Labs, by Working Groups

15:30 WG presentations on the collaboration portal of community Living Labs

16:00 Synthesis and preparation of the workshop presentation for the plenary workshops roundtable

16:30 End of the Workshop (all participants go to the plenary room for the Workshops Roundtable and Keynote session)

Workshop Arrangements

• Official language for this workshop is English
• Preliminary material will be made available to the registered participants one week before the workshop
• A workshop report and synthesis will be prepared

[edit] Workshop W5

• Title: "Collaborative Innovation in Construction ICT"
• Organised by CSTB
• Co-Chairs: Alain ZARLI, CSTB and Ricardo GONCALVES, UNINOVA

 Introduction

The Construction Industry has faced from the very beginning the challenges of virtual enterprising, concurrent engineering, and collaborative team working. To deal with an increasingly complex integrated design of customisable products, comprehensive services, and requirements for reactive and adaptable organisations, innovation in Europe must be sustained by an intensive R&D leading to new collaborative methods, applications and working environments, shaped by the tremendous potential of today and tomorrow ICT technologies. In relationships with the main topics of the ICE 2007 conference, this Workshop purposes to give insights into some of the current promising R&D outgrowth in Europe, and is structured into three sessions as described below.

 Preliminary Programme

• Session 1: Co-creation and open innovation in Building constructions
• Organised by: Farid Ameziane, insARTis, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille, France and Kas Oosterhuis, TU Delft, Hyperbodies Research Group, The Netherlands

This session deals with the penetration of collaborative innovation into contemporary buildings and investigates their performances and their limits. From some professional practice observation, one shall assess how technological breakthroughs are actually used during the design, engineering and building phases on site and through facility management.

The following notions shall be considered among others: collaborative design and breeding environments, concurrent Engineering methods and processes, virtual/extended enterprise networks and organisations, distributed enterprise management, supply chain management, project management as well as new types of partnership between architects, engineers, building companies and industrial companies, potentially leading to new Collaborative Value Systems and Clusters.

• Contemporary buildings and todays professional practices
• Farid Ameziane - Equipe de recherche insARTis, Marseille, France
• From File to Factory process to Real Time Architecture
• Tomasz Jaskiewicz - Hyperbody Research Group [HRG] Faculty of Architecture Delft University of Technology, Delft/Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Collaborative design, concurrent Engineering and project management methods for building construction
• Marine Bagneris & Chiara Silvestri - Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil de Montpellier UMR CNRS 5508

• Session 2: Emerging coordination supports for design and construction activities
• Organised by: Gilles Halin, CRAI, France, Damien Hanser, CRP TUDOR, Luxembourg and Pierre Leclercq, Lucid Groupe, Belgique

The number and the variety of actors and phases involved in a construction project constitute a brake to the use of WPMS (Web based Project Management System) by all the actors of a project. The instrumentation of coordination between actors constitutes an essential issue for the use of WPMS tools to manage design and construction project in the AEC sector. This session addresses the problem of performance and quality of collective processes through new coordination paradigms based on Information Technology. The flexibility of business processes and the improvement of group awareness in design and in construction activities will be used as support to propose new approaches based on the cooperative context representation of AEC project focusing on several subjects: knowledge management in AEC projects, context visualization techniques, trust representation and business processes management.

• Innovative IT tools to support coordination in AEC. From theory to practice
• Annie Guerriero - UMR MAP-CRAI, Nancy, France - CRP Tudor Luxembourg, Sylvain Kubicki - CRP Tudor, Luxembourg
• Towards a flexible IT-based system for process steering in architecture design
• Ahmed Laaroussi - CSTB, Sophia Antipolis, France-UMR MAP-CRAI, Nancy, France
• Collaborative Network for Digital Sketch Based Design
• Prof Pierre Leclercq - Lucid Group, University of Liege, Belgium

• Session 3: Construction ICT and the ERABUILD program: present and future
• Organised by: Mika Lautanala, Tekes, Finland, Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi, VTT, Finland and Alain Zarli, CSTB, France

The ERABUILD network aims at having a major impact on creating the European Research Area (ERA) in research on sustainable development in the construction and operation of buildings, and is therefore the ERA-Net for construction at a European level. One of its major aims is planning and preparing a trans-national R&D programme in the area, and a short term goal for the project is the development of a learning network of governmental organisations. ERABUILD issued in 2005 an invitation to tender on the topic of "Managing Information in Construction". Two proposals, which have both been selected for funding, have led to projects having both begun in Mars 2006 and finishing in April 2007:

• Strat-CON (http://www.strat-con.org), is a continuation of the former ROADCON roadmap, with the ambition to refine this roadmap, but also to further define an SRA (R&D identification and priorities scheduling) and to propose “developments” fields of future R&D projects.
• BICT, which aims at evaluating the possibilities and the potential of ICT in order to increase the effectiveness and the quality of the construction processes, in particular by a greater industrialization of these processes. This project grants a significant place to surveys and the case studies to propose generic models.

This session will introduce to some of the current projects supported by ERABUILD in the field of Construction supported by ICT, and to future ERABUILD R&D.

• ERABUILD: present and future
• Sampsa Nissinen – Tekes, Finland
• BICT: benefits of ICT for industrialisation in the Construction industry
• Ronny Andersson - Cementa AB/Malmö, Sweden
• Strat-CON: strategic actions for realising the vision of ICT in Construction
• Alain Zarli – CSTB, France, Sami Kazi – VTT, Finland

Open Discussion

16:30 Coffee Break

17:00 End of the Workshop (all participants go to the plenary room for the Workshops Roundtable and Keynote session)

[edit] Workshop W6

• Title: "Service Innovation in Collaborative Environment"
• Organised by Lappeenranta University of Technology, FIR, Helsinki School of Economics and ESoCE-NET
• Co-Chairs: Vesa Salminen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Gerhard Gudergang, FIR, Hans Schaffers, Helsinki School of Economics and ESoCE-NET

 Workshop objective

The objective of this workshop is to explore the role of service innovation in business ecosystems, in particular in contexts of open, collaborative innovation. Service innovation is key to competitiveness of business networks. In this workshop we aim to focus on:

• The role of service innovation in industrial domains as well as in service intensive industries, e.g. in work systems and business process management for Enterprise 2.0
• The role of business architecture to be utilized in cross organization innovation
• Innovation over the life cycle of application and customer process
• The role of innovation in software and systems technologies and associated business models to enable service innovation
• The role of technical, organizational, business and policy factors to enable, promote and exploit service innovation
• To focus on research and user environment challenges related to service innovation to be undertaken in FP7.

 Intended audience

The intended audience includes companies, researchers and policy makers in the area of service innovation. In particular:

• Representatives of companies in industrial and service and software sectors
• Community of collaborative, open innovation experts
• Policy makers, industry associations and professionals interested in service innovation.

 Workshop focus

Industrial services, B-to-B services, are expected to have high potential for companies especially in traditional industries, such as manufacturing or real estate business. Enterprises need to develop new business models and innovation concepts especially in those businesses where product life cycles are long. There is continuously need for service innovations to improve service excellence. Service innovation consists in many cases also product innovation because service and product offerings are in dynamic interrelationship. Service innovation is created collaboratively in open infrastructure with customer and innovation network partners. Innovation capability in creating new offering and new business models by distributed communities is becoming more important. Competitive advantage can be achieved by knowledge communities. Increasing share of the innovation process is taking place outside the company. This is due to increasing complexity of products and services containing multiple technologies that are not developed inside the company. Also shortened product life cycle and time to market force companies to focus on their key technologies and looking for partners to cover the supporting technologies. This interdependency organizes companies to the networks where innovation capability success is emerging property of the network. A critical success factor in the rapid design of services by distributed communities is the ability for all participating organisations to communicate in a consistent and accurate manner. It is suggested that the process could be speeded up the utilisation of a common language, in the form of a sector specific activity model, and predefined methodology for the development of cross organisational services.

In this context several initiatives and industrial experiences are presented in this workshop, addressing respectively the industrial state-of-art knowledge and opportunities by networking activities e.g.

“Leadership for Life Cycle Business Transition by Hybrid Innovation”, LCB/TEKES “Framework and Tools for Service Innovation”, INCOCO-EU-project “Enabling Service Innovation in Collaborative Environments”, EU FP6 and upcoming FP7 projects.

 Workshop Programme

9:00 Introduction: General Description of problem space, Vesa Salminen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Gerhard Gudergang, FIR, Hans Schaffers, Helsinki School of Economics and ESoCE-Net

9:20 Service Innovation in Collaborative Environments, Vesa Salminen, Gerhard Gudergang, Hans Schaffers

10:00 Innovation Leadership in Life Cycle Business Transition, Vesa Salminen and Jari Tammela, Lappeenranta University of Technology

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Framework and Tools for Service Innovation, Gerhard Gudergang and Ralf Frombach, FIR

11:30 Supporting the Systematization of Early-Stage Innovation by Collaborative Environments, Alexander Hesmer and Klaus Dieter Thoben, BIBA

12:00 Service Innovation in FP6 Living Labs projects, Hans Schaffers, Helsinki School of Economics and ESoCE-NET

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Enabling Service Innovation in a Collaborative Environment, Introduction of the Group Works, Vesa Salminen

14:10 Enabling Service Innovation in a Collaborative Environment, Discussion Groups led by Gerhard Gudergang, Vesa Salminen, Hans Schaffers

• Barriers/Enablers to Service Innovation in a Collaborative Environment
• Use of Business Architecture method in enabling service innovation
• How will a methodology assist in the definition of new services?

16:00 Conclusions / Opportunities for Development and New Initiatives, discussion lead by Vesa Salminen, Gerhard Gudergang, Hans Schaffers

16:30 Coffee Break

17:00 End of the Workshop (all participants go to the plenary room for the Workshops Roundtable and Keynote session)

[edit] Workshop W7

• Title: "Holistic Principles of the three pillars for Collaborative Networks Organisation"
• Organised by: the ECOLEAD project
• Co-Chairs: Iiro Salkari, VTT, Servane Crave France Telecom, Sergio Gusmeroli, TXT e-solutions; Marco Conte, TeS

 Introduction

The innovation of industry and especially of SMEs is of crucial importance for European competitiveness. As evidenced in major European Programmes, the Collaborative Networked Organisations (CNOs) are playing a role of a central reference approach that is considered to have a potential for enhanced performance related to cost/time and quality issues in industrial collaboration. The ECOLEAD project approaches the collaborative networked organizations holistically in order to achieve this potential. The main assumption is that the collaboration exists on several time spans and between different entities (or actors), and effective collaboration needs to be supported by tools, which take into account the special characteristics of the collaboration in CNOs, e.g. dynamics, sustainability, geographical distance and virtuality.

ECOLEAD utilises the following concepts to overcome the challenges:

• [1] VBE (Virtual organization Breeding Environment). VBEs resemble today’s’ clusters and company networks, in which companies collaborate in order to develop their competitiveness and readiness for joint customer deliveries that in our concept takes place in a VO.

These networks often have a long life span but they are not static: new partners may join the network and some old ones may leave. The network may also undergo a more radical metamorphosis during which also the objective of the network may change. This is often due to a change in the business environment.

• [2] VOs (Virtual Organisations) that aim to fulfill a specific customer need, which may be a physical product or service. In many cases also innovativeness is called for. On practical level, one could crystallize that Virtual Organizations have similarities to systematic, repetitive joint projects, which are supported by ICT based tools and pre-agreed practices. All this means that they are carried out less ad-hoc basis than typical joint projects, which suffer from the lack of preparedness during the work.
• [3] PVCs (Professional Virtual Communities) are communities of skilled professionals that do not identify them selves through traditional companies but rather through their profession and professional skills. These entities could be referred as modern guilds of professionals, aided by systematic practices and modern ICT tools. The individuals in a PVC may work in one-man companies or on free-lancer basis. The PVCs may exist for non-commercial purposes, e.g. for developing the professional skills, or they may be business-oriented and target to get work for their members. The PVC members may also participate to VOs.
• [4] Horizontal ICT Infrastructure supports collaboration in of the above mentioned entities by ensuring interoperability and by accommodating processes and practices, which facilitate smooth transition from a VBE and PVC to a VO and vice versa: ICT infrastructure facilitates integration of processes and working between the above mentioned types of CNO.

These concepts are based on a strong Theoretical Foundation. This workshop has a practical industry oriented approach while the foundation is considered in scientific conferences and journals.

This workshop concentrates on showing findings from industry pilot cases that focus on integration of the three first basic elements: VBE, VO and PVC. The presentations consist of industry driven examples and demonstrations where we take a look at processes, practices and ICT applications that support efficient operation in the above explained system. We also consider the used methodologies used in the Pilots.

 Goals of the Workshop

The workshop aims on discussion between developers (consultants, ICT companies, researchers) and practitioners (industry). The discussion is facilitated by presentations that show demonstrations and findings related to the work that is carried out in the ECOLEAD pilot cases. These presentations provide understanding how the practitioners can benefit from the ECOLEAD results and what practices they can apply from ECOLEAD in order to gain the benefits.

 Who should attend?

The workshop is industry-oriented and the content is respectively targeted to industry companies (both SMEs and larger companies that may have an extensive supplier network) and consultants. Also the ECOLEAD multipliers are encouraged to participate to the workshop and discussion: Already 143 multipliers have joined the ECOLEAD community. These multipliers represent: Industrial Associations; Chambers of Commerce; Regional Centres; Regional Development Agency; Universities; Association of professional categories and Enterprises. This potential large network of participants provides a good basis for lively discussion and brings in different viewpoints to the discussion.

 Workshop programme

I Part: Opening, Overview of CNOs and Introduction into Pilot Cases

9:00 Opening of the Workshop and Basic Concepts

• Short introduction and presentation of the overall objectives and agenda of the workshop
• Introduction to the basic concepts of the holistic approach used and of key methodological and ICT results achieved by the Ecolead project

II Part: Pilot Cases Business scenario description and adoption of Ecolead results supporting the interaction ( legal, business, methods and ICT application viewpoints)

10:00 VBE/PVC Interaction Pilot Case 1 Aeronautics – ISOIN/CEBENETWORK

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 VBE/PVC Interaction issues

11:30 VBE/VO Interaction Pilot Case 2 Mechanics – Shannon/Swisss Microtek

12:00 VBE/VO Interaction issues

12:30 Lunch break

14:00 VO/PVC Interaction Pilot Case 3 Orona/Ing Puglia

14:30 VO/PVC Interaction issues

III Part: Discussion and Interactive Session / facilitated by Marco Conte

15:00 The findings of presentations are discussed in an industry expert panel

Identification of applicable methodologies, processes, practices and ICT:

• How the presented things could facilitate the business of the companies in the audience?
• What are the methodologies that can be used by developers to support realising the business potential?
• What are the remaining barriers and how they could be overcome?

16:00 Wrap-up and closing of the Workshop Session / Chair Martin Ollus

16:30 Coffee Break

17:00 End of the Workshop (all participants go to the plenary room for the Workshops Roundtable and Keynote session)

[edit] Workshop W8

• Title: "Collaborative Innovation in Automotive Clusters"
• Organised by: the PANAC CLuster, Hungary
• Co-Chairs: Zaltan Kabács, PANAC and Tunde Kallai, CEIA, Hungary

 Scenario

Competitiveness clusters are designed to spark growth of industrial activities and jobs and to strengthen the regions. This tool is not just intended for emerging technologies (nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, microelectronics, etc.) but also for more mature sectors (automotive and aviation industry, etc.). Clusters must also fit into the international environment, primarily the European market: the creation of clusters with critical mass opens the door to balanced partnerships with foreign players, particularly within the framework of the EUREKA programme and the FP RTD (Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development). The automotive industry faces complexities: Managing the automotive product lifecycle is a complex task because of both the growing electronic content in vehicles and the sophisticated IT systems required to support the product development process itself. Electron¬ics, electrical systems and software are becoming more integral to development. Automotive IT systems encompass disparate systems, huge volumes of data in various formats, and hundreds of applications used around the clock by employees located throughout the world. A significant portion of automotive value creation is moving from the brand owners to vehicle integrators and suppliers and it is expected that more than 75 percent of a vehicle’s value will be created by the automotive supply chain by the year 2015. Eventually, the entire vehicle design and development process will become a collaborative effort between global enterprises operating in diverse environments. It is vital to have efficient processes and tools in place for design, testing, analysis, validation and certification in order to help ensure that products are not only safe, but feasible and profitable. And, the need for close partnerships and integration with suppliers becomes critical

 Trends in Automotive

Trends in Automotive Industry related to the goals of Lisbon / Barcelona Strategy of EU. Two initiatives provide major insights:

• CARS 21 (Competitive Automotive Regulatory System for the 21st century) developed by CEOs of OEMs and Commission for setting new standards
• Europe Innova Sectoral Innovation Watch Panel (SIP), by Europe Innova with help of Automotive experts all over Europe to make Innovation Policy in different sectors

Both Initiatives addressed the following keypoints:

• Safety
• Environment
• R&D
• International trade (new markets)
• Intellectual property
• Mobility

 Workshop Objectives

Our workshop aims at defining an integrated approach of methodologies, software, tools and services to address business require¬ments, associated with automotive product planning, concept development, design, engineering, analysis, testing, launch and support. To meet above mentioned goals in the competitive environment, it is highly necessary to find new methods, tools for R&D, and transformation of ideas into innovation. Automotive industry has relatively long period realizing ideas into matured products. (6-7 years). The needs of customers changing faster than the industry can answer. The presentations will cover the Supplier collaboration:

• Design and development functions in OEMs and suppliers alike need to align to be able to faster respond to rapidly changing requirements. Any collaboration solutions help increase innovation, improve resource utilization, and shorten product development cycles for the automo¬tive suppliers become more competitive by working seam¬lessly and simultaneously together with the OEM to develop complex vehicles that conform to customer and industry quality standards.
• The supplier collaboration services support inte¬gration along the entire value chain with infrastructure, tools, methods and processes and enable cost-effective imple¬mentation of utilization models with innovative technology.
• The workshop supports supplier collaboration with Web based services that provide rapid and reliable support using up-do-date configurations and information relevant for deploy¬ment and operation.

 Target participants

The presenters are representatives from:

• Automotive Cluster managers all over Europe
• Automotive Experts
• 1st 2nd level decision makers OEMs, Tier ½

 The expected outcome of the workshop

The workshop reflect nicely to the main outcomes of the Study about the Mapping Cluster in Central Europe, prepared recently by the EUROPE INNOVA initiative presents the first "cluster mapping" relating to the new 10 Member States of the EU. The authors of the study dedicate the main part of their conclusions to the European Commission so as it:

• supports the level of economic specialization of the 10 new Member States, in particular by removing a maximum number of barriers within the European single market;
• supports the development of efficient clusters in these countries (data dissemination, promotion of standard tools, support to the networks of cross-border clusters, ...)
• improves its policy as regards innovation, with a view to strengthening the links between research and industry (the clusters can here play a major role).

 The workshop has to give answers to following questions

• How to speed up development in automotive industry?
• How to find ideas, identify them as promising tool and turn it in successful product?
• How to combine customer needs with policy making?
• How to meet Europe goals with automotive company’s interest?
• The idea and tool Living Lab could be helpful to reach our goals?
• What are the potentials of this new CWE for the Automotive sector?

The background of the organisers

Pannon Automotive Cluster (PANAC) is an innovative network based cooperation of businesses and organizations with interests in the automotive industry organized on a voluntary basis, founded on mutual benefits. PANAC has been established with the active participation of Hungary's largest automotive enterprises (Audi, Suzuki, Opel,LuK,Raba) and the support by the West Transdanubian Regional Development Council. The Hungarian Ministry of Economic Affairs joined as an active sponsor. Pannon Automotive Cluster's intention is above all to comply with the integration of the hungarian automotive industry with the achievement of the complex supplier task. The beneficiaries of PANAC activities can be appointed mainly the hungarian automotive small-, or medium enterprises.

 Workshop programme

Automotive session

9:00 speaker (A.Oliveira – Alfamicro - Portugal)

9:30 speaker (K.Busch – Nordhessen – Germany)

10:00 speaker (D.Busen – ACS – Slovenia)

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 speaker (T.Eder – AC – Austria)

11:30 speaker (Z.Kabács – PANAC – Hungary)

12:00 Questions related to cluster activities

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Open Discussions

14:30 Workshops Resume

• Key issue: Network of Automotive Living Labs
• Interactive workprogramme for setup, needs, possibilities Living Labs in Automotive sector. * Focus on innovation and ability of SME clusters to develop more complex subsystems (higher level of integration) for the value chain. Moving from components manufacturing to subsystem design and development.

16:30 Coffee Break

17:00 End of the Workshop (all participants go to the plenary room for the Workshops Roundtable and Keynote session)

[edit] Workshop W9

• Title: "Collaborative Platform for Innovative Complex Engineering Projects"

• Organised by: the COSPACES project
• Chair: Terrence Fernando, University of Salford, UK

 Workshop Purpose

The purpose of this workshop is to explore the challenges in developing collaborative technology platforms for supporting complex engineering projects in sectors such as aerosapce and automotive. This workshop will be led by the CoSpaces (www.cospaces.org) project consortium in collaboration with the INTUITION VR Ntwork of Excellence and will adderess a range of topics such as user requirements for collaborative workspaces, collaboration models, challenges in developing shared data spaces, model driven workspaces, architectureal concepts, dynamic service management and real-time collaboration issues. The invited presentations will be given by the CoSpaces project partners and leading international experts in the area of collaborative workspaces.

 Workshop Programme

08:30am: Registration and Coffee

09.00am: Overview of the Workshop (Terrence Fernando, University of Salford)

Session 1 : User Requirements and Collaboration Models

09.10am: User requirements for Distributed Workspaces, Terrence Fernando, University of Salford, UK

09.40am: Collaboration Models in Supporting Distributed Work Practices, Herman Loeh, CeTIM, Germany.

10.10am: Modelling the User Context in Collaboration Environments, Gilles Gautier, University of Salford, UK.

10:30am Coffee Break

Session 2: Technologies and Approaches for Developing Data Sharing Spaces for Virtual Enterprises

11.00am : An Approach for Creating Shared Product Data Spaces for Collaboration, PROSTEP AG, Alain Pfouga, Germany

11.30am: Challenges in Creating Collaborative Data Sharing Spaces, EuroStep, Nigel Shaw, EuroStep, UK.

12.00pm : Collaboration Between Government and Industry Based on Open Standards, Jorulv Ragnes, EPM Technology, Norway

12:30pm Lunch

Session 3 : Models, Technologies and Architecture for Building Collaborative Platforms

14.00pm : Model Driven Approach for Generating Collaborative Engineering Environments, Stefano Tinella, AKM, Norway

14.30pm: eCollaboration to Support Assembly and Manufacturing Phases (Ana Rita Campos, UNINOVA, Portugal.

15.00pm: A Secure Infrastructure for Dynamic Collaborative Working Environments, Roland Kübert, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

15.30pm: Securing knowledge in Distributed Collaborative Architectures, Michel Kamel, University of Toulouse, France

16.00pm: Collaborative Engineering in Distributed and Co-Located Teams, Andreas Kopecki, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

16.30pm: Plenary Session

17.00pm: Close