eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

New Ways to Work 2000European Teleworkformer Ammatti-InstituuttiValimotic 8, P. O. Box 151FIN -00381 Helsinki, FinlandFax: + 358-0 5403292E-Mail: hannele.ikonen@ami.fiURL:http://www.amiedu.net/eng/virtual1.htmVKN Virtuelles KMU Network-ManagementADAPT InitiativeThe basis of this project is the transfer of competencies for the management of virtual companies as a precondition forthe development of virtual SME networks. New modular training packages will be developed, in order to train futureteletrainers on interface management, process organisation, new ways of providing information, corporate culture andthe intercultural dimension. Simulation games, and software, such as Virtual Company and LOTUS Notes, constitutethe appropriate training tools. Furthermore, it is planned to link people with future-oriented business plans in order toallow them to co-operate as virtual companies, connecting them to the target group of teletrainers. This networkingwill be supported technically by the promoter. Starting in the region Südbaden, this project will eventually spreadthroughout Germany.Contact:IPC - International Project Center AGPF 5801D-79026 Freiburg, GermanyJan H. PeschkaTel.: +49 761 38620Fax: +49 761 386211E-mail: peschka@ipc-ag.comURL: http://www.ipc-ag.comIST ProgrammeWHALES Web-Linking Heterogeneous Applications for Large ScaleEngineering and ServicesThe main objective is to provide a planning and management infrastructure for complex distributed organisationsworking as networks on large scale engineering projects. Members of such a network may be big and medium tosmall enterprises as well taking into account workers, management, the organisations itself and the consumers, whoare integrated as external business partners. The goals are to design and develop a set of software componentssupporting integrated planning, deployment and monitoring of large projects in multi-site, multi-enterpriseorganisations and to demonstrate the applicability and benefits of the developed software composed through analysis,implementation and experimental usage on pilot business cases presented by users in the consortium. The projectcontains five technical Workpackages devoted to the study and development of the ICT architecture and softwarecomponents that are going to support the WHALES network organisation model. Each Workpackage includes thefundamental activities of a quality-based software development process: requirements, analysis and design,implementation, test and deployment. A sixth Workpackage provides a common development infrastructure for theteams working on each component, dealing with: methodology and tools to be used, selection of existing re-usablecomponents, co-ordination of joint developments, maintenance of a technical data repository, configuration andchange management.In parallel, the proposed organisation model and tools will be introduced and applied on four business cases indifferent industrial sectors. Each business case includes the fundamental activities of business case analysis,experiment selection and preparation, experiment implementation and results assessment. The final Workpackageco-ordinates all business cases, dealing with application of common methodologies, metrics and best practices, andensuring uniformity, comparison and joint evaluation of results produced by each business case.Project period: March 2000 – October 2002Contact:Gruppo Formula SpAVia Matteotti 5I-40050 Villanova di Castenaso, ItalyMonica PalmiraniTel.: +39-051-600 2111Fax: +39-051-600 2222E-mail: monica.palmirani@formula.itWISTCIS New Methods of Working for Information Society Technologies IST ProgrammeProgramme Promotion to Commonwealth of Independent StatesWISTCIS project will promote IST to seven European CIS countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,Moldova, Russia, Ukraine) by dissemination actions and teleworking targeted outside of IST, basing on new methodsof team work between EU and the CIS interested parties. WISTCIS will develop further the system of InformationDemonstration Centres deployed in seven CIS countries by TAP project STACCIS. Basing on this system WISTCISwill organize two conferences and five workshops devoted to IST, will introduce new methods of team work in theCIS and will provide training measures to promote IST to the CIS. WISTCIS will encourage submission of newproposals to IST. Certification service for IST proposals preparation and electronic submission will be adapted for EU-CIS team work. WISTCIS will present first IST results to the CIS telematics community indicating the tendencies of- 188 -