The fines cluster meeting on December 20, 2011, aimed to promote collaboration among various projects by identifying challenges, methodologies, and expected outcomes for future activities. Key discussion points included the identification of existing results and relevant tools to enhance collaboration in specific research and socio-technical issues. Future plans will be detailed in the fines cluster activity plan for 2012.

1. FInES Cluster Meeting
Collaboration Sessions
Verena Ebner, Mor Sagmon
The Network is the Business (NisB)
December 20th, 2011

2. Agenda
Purpose and scope
Content
Discussion guide (proposition)
Collaborative sessions
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3. Purpose and scope
 Leverage projects' results and potential synergies with achievements of
other projects.
 Encourage collaboration amongst the projects within the areas
 specific research,
 application topics,
 socio-technical issues or
 use case particularities.
 Definition of concrete activities
 will be reflected in the FInES cluster forthcoming activity plan 2012.
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4. Content
 Identify upcoming challenges of the projects.
 Identify methodology and tools to approach challenges.
 Frame expected outcomes of the collaborative actions.
 Identify existing results and overlapping.
 Define actions to be taken.
 Identify contact persons.
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5. Discussion Guide: Proposition
Challenges What possible challenges can be identified?
Expected results What expectations do you have from the collaboration activities?
Methods / tools to
Which methods/tools would be relevant for effective collaboration?
achieve results
Existing results
from projects as What results can projects provide to build upon?
input
Actions to be
What next steps can be taken by the projects?
taken
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6. Discussion Framework
20-30 min Short intro of main projects’ highlights (challenges/achievements)
100 min Moderated discussion
15 min Wrap-up and summary slide
Re-convene: each group rep. presents summary highlights in 5-6
12:00
minutes
14:00 (After lunch) Summary and future perspective
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7. Collaborative sessions
No Topic Description Facilitator Room
Innovations in business models for networked
Business modeling and Verena Ebner
1 service composition
enterprise; process modeling; business services
(NisB)
Main
composition; service platforms
Distributed, adaptive and B2B collaboration environment facilitation using
Victor Shafran
2 interoperable virtual interoperability platforms; cloud enablement;
(NisB)
Main
enterprises distributed networks/networked enterprise
Collaborative Intelligence; semantic knowledge
Knowledge value
3 generation
management; knowledge sharing; business Eva Coscia (NisB) S2
intelligence automation
Business and technical requirements for
Fenareti
manufacturing/re-manufacturing in discrete and
Lampathaki
4 Future manufacturing process manufacturing; dynamic manufacturing
(ENSEMBLE)
S9
networks and business innovation in the
manufacturing industries
Innovation and participation acceleration of SME's,
Ian Graham
5 SME Support SME's networks and collaboration; commercializing
(NisB)
S5
to scale SME's innovations
From Research to Market, Innovation processes and methodologies, idea-2-
Keith Popplewell
6 translating innovation into product & idea-2-service optimization; research
(Coventry U)
S4
products & services CSA; financing innovation-2-market processe
Technologies innovations (e.g. mobile, hardware);
Technologies, standards,
IoT; systems engineering: models, processes and Michaël de Boer
7 methodologies,
methodologies; adapters & interfaces technologies (EC)
S10
engineering and interfaces
promoting standardization and automation
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9. Thank you!
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