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WP6 : Co-ordination of ongoing & future projects |
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Work package 6 focuses on the information flow between projects, but more importantly, on "linking people", who share the same interests. Effectively, new topical networks of specialists crosscutting different projects boundaries should emerge.
Linking people can only be effectively done on a voluntary basis. Thus it is very important that the benefit outweighs the effort.
| Objectives |
The specific objectives are:
- Improve the view on recent,
ongoing and planned national and international projects relevant to
the implementation of the WFD, thus improving the view on the state
of the art.
- Provide other work packages
within Harmoni-CA and other interested groups of up to date
(detailed) information on ongoing research.
- Bring together the specialists
of ongoing related research to elaborate amongst themselves the
approaches and solutions for the problems encountered.
- Increase the output and benefit
of ongoing research by clustering, co-ordinating and synchronising
ongoing and planned research.
- Speed up the (re-) use of
developed products of individual projects by other projects;
- Improve dissemination of
knowledge and products;
- Reduces the chance of
duplicating activities;
Co-ordination will include EU-related
projects (a/o the CATCHMOD working packages), but also national and
worldwide activities.
| Methodology |
To reach these objectives first
dedicated web-based information system on ongoing (and planned)
research will be developed which allows querying on the content of
work packages. This website shows the content, status, start date and
end date of projects and their work packages. This level of detail is
a necessity since many projects contain relevant research and
developments on this level, which does not receive sufficient
attention in the general project description. The work package
participants will fill the database with the information of relevant
projects in which they are involved. Furthermore the participants
will address project managers on all levels to up-load their project
details to the database. Additionally ongoing and planned projects
will be globally reviewed on their relevancy for Harmoni-CA.
Though querying the database is open
to the public, the participants will maintain and analyse the
database, looking for commonalties between projects’ tasks.
The results of the queries will be
reported and appropriate measures will be taken, such as:
- Addressing project managers of
related projects to inform them about each other’s projects.
- Facilitating and stimulating
tuning of work packages,
- Facilitating and overseeing
web-based (private or public) elaboration of issues / problems
addressed in multiple projects.
- Organising meetings or workshops
of these experts.
For questions contact:
Michiel Blind
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Harmoni-CA is a research project supported by the European Commission under the 