PROGRAMME AIDE IST-1-507674-IP Updated Dissemination Plan

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Deliverable N.D4.2.4 Dissemination Level PU Contract N. IST-1-507674-IP Two issues of the newsletter have already been sent to all interested people while the website’s visibility is continuously increasing as more interesting news and results are uploaded, keeping the public up to date on the progress of the project’s work. - Networking will also be important for the second year of the project while the three Forums formed, the User Forum, the Nomad Forum and the architecture forum will be called to play a major role during this period since the expert’s input will have the greatest impact at this development phase.” Networking is achieved through the two major running forums, the User Forum and the Nomadic Forum, each addressing a special audience, the first wider and the latter more specific but equally important. An additional dissemination target is the creation of synergies and cooperation with other E-SAFETY projects. This was realised through the organisation of common workshops with the HUMANIST Network of Excellence and the attendance of workshops realised by projects such as PReVENT, EASIS and GST. In addition, the common plans for future demonstration events implementing the same demonstrator vehicle which will integrate all projects’ developed functionalities further increase the synergies and the cooperation between the projects. Therefore, it is proven that the dissemination strategy defined was successfully followed as the project managed to achieve its pre-defined dissemination targets. In addition, valuable lessons were learnt from participating to ITS congresses and other major conferences that will be used for scheduling the project’s participation to future events. On the other hand, networking helped to attract a number of people whose interest needs to remain high by continuously improving and enhancing the presented material and adding demonstration exhibitions to the dissemination program. Finally, the synergies created will help organizing highly cost-efficient joint events with large attendance and considerable impact to the community. All these will be further specified to the updated dissemination plan for the future of the AIDE project that follows. 1/03/2006 18 ICCS
Deliverable N.D4.2.4 Dissemination Level PU Contract N. IST-1-507674-IP 3. UPDATE OF AIDE DISSEMINATION PLAN As the AIDE project has reached its mid life, there is a need to update its dissemination plans taking into account the most important opportunities for the next two years. While during the first two years of the project the focus was on disseminating the main concepts and objectives of AIDE, the next period will be devoted to publishing and disseminating to a wider audience its main results and findings. At the same time, a major effort will be spent for raising the public awareness on the importance of the AIDE concepts and their respective impact to the community. In parallel, dissemination activities will help achieving a wide acceptance for the main AIDE findings by all major stakeholders of related areas such as the automotive area. Although AIDE will be present to all major events and conferences for the next two years, special attention and effort will be directed towards three main events: - The ITS World Congress, London 8-12 October 2006 - The PReVENT IP Exhibition event (expected to take place in September 2007) - The AIDE Final User Forum Workshop (towards the end of AIDE) These events provide an ideal opportunity to demonstrate the project’s results to all interested people, both experts and the general public. At the same time, the web site of AIDE will continuously be updated with news and results, enhancing the dissemination task results. The newsflashes and bulletins will also be distributed to the User Forum members through the regular issues of AIDE newsletters. Finally, the AIDE Nomadic Forum will continue to play also an important dissemination role in addition to its main focus by keeping up to date the members of a specific but highly important audience. It should be noted that this document is an update of D4.2.2 “Dissemination Plan and website” which is still valid. The purpose of this document is only to update and specify where needed the provisions of D4.2.2 for the remaining period of AIDE. In the next paragraphs, the most important dissemination activities planned will be analyzed. Furthermore, an update of the AIDE dissemination strategy for the next two years will also be included. 3.1. Dissemination Strategy for the next two years As it was described in D4.2.2, during the last two years of the project, AIDE results will be available and a clear image of the AIDE developments and concepts will be ready to be demonstrated. Thus, the consortium dissemination efforts will be concentrated in disseminating these results through all the available channels to all relevant groups (see del. D4.2.2). The strategy for this period can be summarized as follows: • Identify key events where the publicity of AIDE results and concepts will gain a wide and multidisciplinary audience; 1/03/2006 19 ICCS
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