COIN participating in the FInES Cluster meeting - Brussels on 19-20 December 2011

The COIN Project will participate in the FInES Cluster meeting, taking place in Brussels on 19-20 December 2011.

A full morning will be dedicated to collaboration meetings in which such synergies and cooperation activities between the cluster projects are to be identified. Most of the meeting time will be organized into seven parallel discussion groups, each focused on a scope of subjects determined by the FInES projects expressions of interest and further refined by online discussions1 amongst the projects' representatives.

Proposed parallel discussion groups are: Business modeling and service composition, Distributed, adaptive and interoperable virtual enterprises, Knowledge value generation, Future manufacturing, SME Support, From Research to Market, translating innovation into products & services, Technologies, standards, methodologies, engineering and interfaces.

The above discussion groups are aimed at leveraging projects' results and their potential synergies with the achievements of other projects. We strongly encourage collaboration amongst the projects, may it be regarding specific research or application topics, sociotechnical issues or use case particularities. Future collaboration leveraging anticipated projects results is also encouraged. With that in mind, the above discussion groups were loosely defined, leaving much room for creativity and links that would not otherwise be realized. Concrete activities resulting from this exercise are expected and will be reflected in the FInES cluster forthcoming activity plan for 2012.

Looking forward to meeting you there