ECOSPACE

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[edit] Abstract

ECOSPACE pursues the vision that by 2012 every Professional in Europe is empowered for seamless, dynamic and creative collaboration across teams, organisations and communities through a personalised collaborative working environment. ECOSPACE contributes to this vision through 4 main objectives:

• The definition of innovative work paradigms through the analysis of eProfessionals and their related organisation.

• The design and development of an open standard, service-oriented architecture for complementary and alike systems.

• A collaboration middleware and services to enable seamless and instant collaboration among knowledge workers in group forming networks, beyond organisational boundaries.

• The creation of new tools that simplify the complexity of collaboration in dynamic work environments and which enable users for creative and knowledge intensive tasks.

Designed as a three year programme, ECOSPACE deploys a systemic approach built on matrix based organisation with horizontal technology push activities and vertical application pull activities. Vertical validating applications apply a Living Lab approach within 4 application areas. They act as breeding grounds for innovation; they prepare the broad acceptance of the results, and create open business opportunities for new generic or sector-specific products and services.

ECOSPACE will result in new working paradigms and metaphors for eProfessionals, a user-centric platform enabling the interoperability of innovative collaboration tools and services. It will empower users to easily build-up and deploy on-demand virtualised and knowledge rich collaborative environments.

ECOSPACE objectives are supported by a multidisciplinary and sound consortium which includes, large market players, SMEs, users and professional communities with a strong track record in collaborative work and infrastructure, community building, mobile working, visualisation, semantic web and social network analysis.

ECOSPACE contributes to ERA activities, linking with national and EU initiatives for reference architecture and collaboration middleware activities. ECOSPACE defines Basic Collaborative Services

[edit] Latest News

• 01 Sept 2008 ECOSPACE newsletter n°6 special issue on interoperability within Collaborative Environments in HTML format is now available
• 25 June 2008 ECOSPACE demonstration on Shared Workspaces InterWorking at CWE'2008
• 24 June 2008 ECOSPACE Special session "Collaborative Web Environments" at CWE'2008
• 24 June 2008 ECOSPACE Special session "The Role of Exploratory Environments within Living Labs" at CWE'2008
• 23 June 2008 ECOSPACE has organised the CWE'08 at ICE'2008 in Lisbon 23-25 June 2008
• 01 June 2008 ECOSPACE newsletter n°5 special issue on Living Labs is now available either as HTML or PDF
• 30 Mar. 2008 CWE 2008, "Collaborative Working Environments", special track at ICE'2008, Lisbon, 23-25 June 2008
• 31 Jan. 2008 ECOSPACE introduction video part 1 is now available here
• 20 Nov. 2007 ECOSPACE newsletter issue n°4 is now available either as HTML or PDF format
• 22 Oct. 2007 ECOSPACE participated to the ENoLL Launching of the 2nd Wave of Living Labs, Brussels
• 21 Oct. 2007 ECOSPACE participated to the Living Labs projects portfolio, Brussels
• 18 Sep. 2007 ECOSPACE participated to the ECSCW'07 in Limerick, Ireland
• 22 June 2007 ECOSPACE newsletter issue n°3 is now available either as HTML or PDF format
• 21 June 2007 two new electronic surveys on Collaboration Barriers and Enablers are waiting for your responses
• 13 June 2007 ECOSPACE participated to the Concertation Meeting
• 05 June 2007 ECOSPACE Workshop New Collaboration Concepts and Scenarios during the ICE'2007 Conference, Sophia Antipolis, 4 - 6 June 2007
• 23 May 2007 ECOSPACE participated to the International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments
• 20 May 2007 International Journal on eCollaboration (IJeC) special issue on Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) Call-for-Papers is now open

[edit] Consortium

	Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany
	Atkins Ltd., United Kingdom
	Business Collaborator, United Kingdom
	CeTIM - Center for Technology and Innovation Management, Germany
	Istituto Geografico De Agostini, Italy
	EsoCE-NET, Italy
	ETRA Group, Spain
	EURO-TAX International Ltd., Hungary
	Hewlett-Packard European Innovation Centre, Italy
	Jaytown, The Netherlands
	National University of Ireland, Ireland
	SAP AG, Germany
	Stiftung Produktive Schweiz, Schweiz
	Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands
	TXT e-solutions, Italy
	Department of Telematic Engineering (DIT) – UPM, Spain
	University of Murcia, Spain
	Virtech Ltd, Bulgaria