Mr.
Ferran Cabrer i Vilagut
Director/President
CONSEN
(EEIG) Euro-Group
Jaume
Fabra 12
POB
08004
Barcelona
Spain
tel.:
+34 93 4236897
fax:
+34 93 4233430
www.consen.org/
consen@consen.org
CON
- CONSEN
EEIG Euro-Group A.E.I.E.
CONSEN -
CONSEN (EEIG) Euro-Group is a
Grouping of European SMEs who have agreed to cooperate as Euro-Cluster in
projects, tenders and business throughout Europe. The main objective of the
CONSEN (EEIG) is to establish an ongoing and effective dialogue between members
focused on Research, Development, Innovation and Business at European level. The
companies are all experts in Open-Source and Information Society Technologies.
CONSEN is a non-profit, independent and international consulting firm. The
CONSEN partner's commitment maximizes the Socio-Economic benefits of CONSEN
activities. The Key-Concept is to consider CONSEN as a European-OS/IST-Cluster
built with the networking methodologies, competences and best practices of our
partners. The CONSEN member's strategy is to share resources, to exploit and
manage the competencies of their members with synergic effect. CONSEN grouping's
acts as extension of the company internal organization, fostering cooperation
and transferring technology, innovation and knowledge from the scientific world
to companies and reach the local and sectorial business and competitiveness
leadership. CONSEN facilitates them to acquire and put into practice new
technologies, cooperate with research institutes to develop systems and
application in response to industrial demand of creation of new markets, new
business models and new profit centres. CONSEN is member of the Internet Quality
Agency (IQUA) and the European Business Supportive Network (eBSN).
This CONSEN concerns the OPEN-SOURCE philosophy,
technology, business and innovation, which is, by definition, an open door to
the cooperation, to the partnership and thus to the networking success. The
CONSEN objectives are to present and carry out innovative initiatives and
projects in IST, trying to maximize the quality and the socio-economic benefits,
in the following areas:
· Research,
Development, Implementation, Promotion and Sustainable Exploitation of the
cooperative technologic and business networks formed by micro and small
companies and organization.
· RTD+I
of Organizational and Operative networked problems, such as imagining,
legalizing, registering, acting, banking, accounting, trusting/authenticating
and monitoring.
· Promotion
and Sustainable Exploitation to create a real wide market – connected, sorted
and structured - of opportunities.
· Systemic
Procedure to “bottom up” initiatives, research and leverage knowledge and
transfer from the European Organization the technology and innovation to
individual members with efficiency. Finally help and train individual members to
convert this innovation in competitiveness and local business for its benefit
and organization reinvestment, etc.
· Exploration,
Promotion and exploitation of the Open Source Solutions: Software, Contents,
Protocols, Standards, Communities, Platforms and Infrastructures.
· Clustering
resources and “hibridyzing” competences catalogue for improving
Technological results and Business generation.
CONSEN aims to reach a recognized position in the
EGs Consulting mediation services and to establish partners and co-operation
agreements in detected Innovation and business opportunities, new countries and
EGs areas of interest in parallel with the EU-FP6 projects going-on:
· SIGOSSEE
(Special Interest Groups in Open-Source in e-learning and Education in Europe)
·
TOSSAD (Towards OSS Adoption and
Dissemination) IST-3 CA No. 015981
·
SAMANTHA (OPEN MOBILE NETWORKS for
traceability in Seafood)
·
COMIST (AMIATwork communities to IST in NMS)
·
SECURE-FORCE (European Security and Privacy
platform - Pro-active intelligence & support programme to stimulate European
SMEs Faced with research issues in the field of ICT secuRity) INNOV-5 CA No.
023426
Full members:
·
MUFICATA (ESP): Knowledge and Network manager
practitioner and European IST/OS consulting.
·
TRINK-WIZE (BEL): Open Solutions Integrator,
Innovation, implementation & Consulting.
·
PER-SCITUM (EST): Mobile Communications and
networks developer and consulting.
·
VRMC (NLD): Knowledge and Government
consulting and project manager
·
ZEUS-CONSULTING (GRC): Information &
Communication Solutions, Innovation, implementation and Consulting.
·
GRUPA ANTARES (POL): Information technologies
& Government consulting and project manager.
Ferran Cabrer i Vilagut
is the President and Manager of CONSEN (EEIG) and
CEO of MUFICATA S.L. He is Industrial Engineer and Agricultural Engineer of
profession and Master in Business Administration. He managed an the department
of an RTD-enterprise across Spain. In a personal entrepreneur project opened
MUFICATA s.l. an Enterprises Information and Technologic enterprises consulting
in Barcelona area. The Internet was the instrument used to start International
services of Corporate Finance and Merged & Acquisitions, that finally they
was converted in EU information and project management services, creating CONSEN
Grouping as Open Information Environment for networking at European level.
After
the past four years, e-working, CONSEN (EEIG) has become, what is known now as
EURO-GROUP formed by SMES IST-OS, experts in cooperating in RTD and Innovation
at European Level. Now he is contributing in diverse FP6 projects and
collaborate as Vice-Chairman of the Knowledge@work community integrate in the
Ambient Intelligence at work initiative of the "New Collaborative
Environments" Strategic Objective and to the IQUA Agency of Internet
Quality an EU Safe-Internet initiative.