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Collaboration@Work

Collaboration@Work is the name given by the European Commission New Working Environment Unit to next generation collaborative working environments, comprising innovative technical solutions as well as socioeconomic and policy-related aspects. Collaboration@Work aims at improving human abilities to work collaboratively, thereby increasing creativity, which, in turn, will boost innovation and productivity, as well as support new value creation forms. The enabling systems and platforms will provide advanced services to catalyse the development of worker-centric, flexible, scalable and adaptable tools and applications to boost seamless and natural collaboration amongst a diversity of agents (humans, machines, etc) within knowledge-rich virtualized environments and with any devices available anywhere anytime.

Our vision of
New Working Environments

"Next Generation Collaborative Mobile Virtualised Working Environments focuses on workers interacting with their environments and collaborating with each other, having access to all the (also virtualised) resources (including also assisting robotics) required to carry out their tasks and enhancing their capabilities. Among these resources, the key is the knowledge of the co-workers to complement in dynamic groups the needed competences and skills to carry out the task in a efficient way leading to increase on productivity, and generating innovative and creative solutions."

The work to be carried out in the framework of this initiative will receive funds from the Strategic Objective “Collaborative working environments” of the Sixth EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6) IST priority Work Programme 2005/2006. This Strategic Objective will develop next generation collaborative working environments, which will provide collaboration services to make possible the development of worker-centric, flexible, scalable and adaptable tools and applications. This SO will focus on three layered tasks following a systems approach. The first layered task will centre on the design and development of innovative concepts, methods and core services for distributed collaboration at work. The second task will do research on tools for collaborative work in rich virtualised environments, building on top of the core services developed in the lower layer. The upper focal point will develop innovative validating applications for collaborative work in content-rich, mobile and fixed collaborative environments, testing and integrating the core services and tools developed in the previous focal points.

More information on Collaboration@Work

Characteristics

Collaborative Working Environments should be :

Distributed
Knowledge-rich
Virtualized
Mobility components
Dynamics, ad-hoc creation and dissolution

Call Information

Objectives

To develop next generation collaborative working environments, thereby increasing creativity and boosting innovation and productivity.
These environments should provide collaboration services to make possible the development of worker-centric, flexible, scalable and adaptable tools and applications.
They will enable seamless and natural collaboration amongst a diversity of agents (humans, machines, etc) within distributed, knowledge-rich and virtualized working environments.
Professional virtual communities and nomadic personal access to knowledge should be supported.

Read more about our approach of New Working Environments research.

Call 5 information

The Strategic Objective 'Collaborative Working Environments' is included within Call 5 of the IST priority.

Timetable
Publication date	Closure date	Pre-allocated budget¹ (M€)	Instruments	Status
17 May 2005	21 September 2005	40	IPs, STREPs, SSAs, CAs	NYS

¹ The amount corresponds to the 90% of the budget which is pre-allocated.

Workprogramme 2005-2006

Follow this link to get directly to the point 2.5.9 Collaborative Working Environments of the Commissions Workprogramme 2005-2006.


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Last update: 24/11/2006