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Network
of Excellence
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CARiMan
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The
Internet Portal for Computer Aided Risk Management
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Responsible: IPM
& INA
Assistance: CEFIN, all
partners
The
major task of CARiMan is the clustering of related R&D activities and
promotes a European framework for next-generation Risk Management Systems for
emergency management and monitoring of situations. A research excellence and
expertise is available in Europe and the challenge is to get involvement of
partners from all parts of Europe in the CARiMan Network of Excellence, since it
will allow the transfer of different experiences and technologies.
The proposed network includes research institutes,
universities, health care professionals and enterprises. Thereby CARiMan covers
the whole value chain and enables spread of excellence at all levels. CARiMan
will within the collaboration have potential to move the area of medical risk
management systems beyond the level of national opportunities by exchange of
knowledge and collaboration in research. This impact however is dependent on a
strong information exchange system within the network and an outbound system
ensuring contacts beyond the partners own networks.
The CARiMan will act in four main domains such as information
(including awareness campaign), direct contacts
with clients for partner and technologies offers/requests, assistance for projects preparation and development and monitoring.
The goal is to promote the international technology co-operation based on the
flow of information and services provided by the main contractors and also by
the regional partners. One of the objective of this project is to develop and
maintain a high level of services capability in delivering successful
transnational technology transfer (TTT) to the local clients whilst addressing
capacity deficits and encouraging the attainment of economic benefits for
clients through successful agreements.
The activities are:
1. Promoting (detailed in D2+3) the CARiMan NoE, its
services and Network in by:
a)
Organizing and participating at events (press
conferences; participating as speakers at conferences, exhibitions, fairs,
seminars)
b)
Elaborating presentation and information materials
(newsletter – CARiMan News; 12 issues/year; transmitted trough
local/national/international network; CARiMan web-page; articles in professional
papers)
c)
Contacting people (by phone, email, mail, fax, direct
– meetings)
Expected results:
·
10,000 organisations informed about CARiMan
services
2. Supporting the local development by implementing
innovative/modern technologies, by:
a)
Identification of technology needs and their promotion
through network
b)
Promotion of technology offers received from the
network or from other sources
c)
Provide assistance for developing Technology Transfer
projects between identified partners
Expected results:
·
12 TTT agreements negotiated
·
4 TTT agreements signed
3.
Assisting the national technology providers to promote at European level their
innovative products and technologies, by:
a)
Identification of national technology offers and
promotion using the CARiMan network
b)
Promotion of technology requests received from the
CARiMan network members (or from other sources) to local providers matching the
external needs with the local offer
c)
Providing Assistance for developing technology transfer
projects between identified partners
Expected results:
·
12 TTT agreements negotiated
·
3 TTT agreements signed
The spread of excellence will target risk managers environment, product
manufacturer and system integrators to enlarge the commercial possibilities and
the risk management environment and the users to create a demand for
excellencies like CARiMan´s in substitution of the current Risk Management set
up. In the scientific world the target will researchers focusing on technologies
that are complementary or comparable to CARiMan. The spread of excellence will
ensure the largest possible impact in the technological development and the
network will enable a close relation among research (Universities and
educational institutions) and commercial interests (Decisions support industry,
Sensors manufacturers, etc). The impact of a network is a much greater
chance of commercial and scientific success when the ambition is for take-up at
a European level rather than simply national or regional. The spread of
excellence does include dissemination and exploitation actions on both
commercial and academic levels.
The
NoE CARiMan is strongly driven by the involvement of enterprises and sees its
market as worldwide, though the test bed for development is Europe in the first
instance. CARiMan will contribute to Europe’s competitiveness by its own
cutting edge technological development coupled with the use of the latest
technology developed by others. The result of the research activities and the
developed technology will be transferable to other sectors as the exploitation
takes form.
The
mobility issue also relates to the question of standards and regulations, which
are increasingly determined at a European level. The consequense of the network
cooperation is further exposure and exploitation of excellences cross Europe and
the mobility of modules will be a natural part of the issue and in focus of the
research.Through
membership of national and international professional societies and by
presentations at society meetings, dissemination to health care professionals
and medico equipment manufacturers will be accomplished. If there are
commercially exploitable findings from the project, these will be given
publicity in sales and promotional literature after relevant IPR has been
established.
Publication in
peer-reviewed journals and conference participation will be important means of
dissemination; care will be taken that findings are not solely published in
specialized journals where they are unlikely to be seen widely by end-users of
the data acquired (health care professionals). The web-based activities are an open
forum for articles, news, debates and external contacts to the network and will
be used to expose both scientific results and commercialised properties. The
network will arrange internal meetings and will on those occasions take the
opportunity to involve external contacts for cooperation and dissemination.
It is recognised that the best way to
spread the excellence inside the NoE will be an effective information system to
inform each and every partner of the work and progress of other partners even
from other specific groups. Therefore, it is planned to have co-ordination
activities as well as workshops to exchange views, experience and ideas. The
CARiMan network will form a platform for research and education at the partners
institutions and CARiMan will support the involvement in education by materials
and close contact among educational institutions. It will be encouraged within
the network to collaborate among institutions on content of the educational
activities.
Regarding the spreading to outside the NoE, particular workshops are to
be held with the participation of selected and interested stakeholders which
should include authorities, medical service providers and industrial operators.
By the 4 major dissemination angles; articles, web, workshops/conferences and
involvement in education the CARiMan network will have a formal structure for
spreading of excellencies. An Internet system will consist of the following
public and internal parts, which are built as sole information carriers or as
interactive communication platforms:
Public
parts
a) web pages that will be updated
constantly by the experts of the network;
b) interactive discussion groups (public);
c) literature list - includes scientific
and applied literature and abstracts of workshops;
e) market place for procedures, techniques
and products;
f) newspage – including information about
actual conferences, workshops, press releases, and legislation issues, also
links to related web pages;
g) web page presenting the results of the
workshops;
h) Publications logistics
and virtual warehouse
Internal parts:
h) discussion groups, for each area led by
area coordinators.
i) author administration system, an editor
program for the interactive preparation of manuscripts which allows common
manuscript writing of several authors. It organises the automatic and
hierarchical updating and storing of manuscripts in different development
stages. Once manuscripts are completed, they will be put to the related public
web pages. Updates of these publications can be prepared in the same way.
j) data base, which contains
not-yet-published data of members of the NoE and which is linked to the author
administration system during the time period of common manuscript preparation.
This data base can include all media like texts, spread sheets, scientific
figures, photographs, videos and other multimedia objects.
Members and PhD actions:
- Visits of other partners laboratories and
companies related to team activities
- Participating in and organizing the
workshops
- Industrial practice and workshops – in
field workshops for PhD students
- Training courses to harmonize analytical
methods and result assessment
- Activities encouraging women to
participate in scientific activities
- Involving the non-government and
government organizations in decision system and planning of activities to decrease the health risks.
Organisation of thematic workshops. Every two years one workshop in each thematic area identified will be
held to disseminate the main results to external stakeholders, with the aim of
addressing a non-scientific audience. Therefore, these workshops will not be
organised as “classical” scientific meetings. They will instead try to
convey the main objectives and results of the different CARiMAN actions to
potential end-users, stakeholders, public, consumers, regulators. Choice of
topics and organisation will be done by the partners responsible for the
different areas.
Practical training. The network will have the possibility of spreading excellence by
training external participants in laboratories at the partners institutions or
companies. The training will concern specific research areas of the network and
will concentrate both on techniques/technological aspects/protocols and on
specific medical conditions. The training will have the main purpose of training
personnel to perform tasks and/or apply specific approaches; however, it could
also be useful for training stakeholders in understanding the results of CARiMAN
studies.
Consulting SMEs and administrations. Specific training and consulting activities will be provided to
companies and public administrations interested in the results of the network.
Contact with potential users will be pursued throughout the project, taking
advantage of seminars and workshops and through the WWW site.
Presentation to congresses. Spreading of excellence to the scientific community will also imply the
participation of selected network members to national and international
congresses. Common presentations for the global network and for the different
areas will be assembled by the core partners and given to the speakers.
Translation into languages different from English will be responsibility of the
different speakers.
Preparation of illustrative material. Spreading of excellence to stakeholders and end-users will also imply
the preparation of printed material for distribution, such as leaflets and
brochures. Different types of material will be prepared for the different types
of targets: medical practitioners, regulators, administrators, politicians,
scientists and for commercial purposes. The design and the content will be
decided by the responsible partners, and the realisation will be performed by
specialised firms. When a partner desires to prepare a translated version of
some brochures in a language different from English, it will be his/her
responsibility to perform it, keeping contact with the Committees to ensure the
correct communication of the content.
Dissemination and exploitation. The disseminations
elements are defined in the D1, D2 and especially D4. The dissemination and
exploitation activities will ensure relations to the marketplace and the users
by market research and commercial exposure. One of the focus areas will be the
possibilities for the developed IPRs and novelties among the partners within the
network. The requirements and the finalisation of the research for the market
will enable properties to become marketable and profitable to the network
partners.