The Greek Interoperability Centre

The main goal of the Greek Interoperability Centre (GIC) is to establish a new research centre targeting eGovernment and eBusiness Interoperability Research, within the National Technical University of Athens, the leading technological research institute in Greece.

The Greek Interoperability Centre aims at becoming a premium research centre in the field of Interoperability in Greece, cooperating with academia and research, public administration, organisations and businesses across the Greek regions but also institutions from the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean – thus forming a strong regional pole of research and technology.

The Greek Interoperability Centre will be structured through cooperation with leading research institutes from Germany, Italy, Norway, UK, US and China, inviting high-caliber international researchers and engaging more than 15 experts and new researchers in its team.

GIC is an FP7 Research Project, started March 2008, with a duration of 3 years.

MOMENTUM Project Coordinates European eParticipation Projects

MOMENTUM is a Specific Support Action project funded under the European Commission’s eParticipation programme (eParticipation 2007/1). The project is dedicated to the coordination, evaluation and support of all the running eParticipation Projects, under FP6 and FP7.

Partners of Momentum Project are:
- Athens Technology Center S.A. (Greece)
- National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
- International Centre of Excellence for Local eDemocracy (UK)
- Universitaet Koblenz-Landau (Germany)
- Politech Institute (Belgium)
Duration: Jan 2008 – June 2010

FEED eParticipation Project Started !

Federated eParticipation Systems for Cross-
Societal Deliberation on Environmental and
Energy Issues

The main objective of FEED is to apply a new concept in e-Participation by allowing users to have seamless access to existing federated content that matches their needs for information supporting the several aspects of a public deliberation, when focusing Environmental and Energy issues. Through FEED, existing federated content and/or other knowledge material (some of it already under processing and by other current eParticipation projects), are contextually annotated or channeled according to the issue and deliberation process specifics, allowing this way the platform users to perceive, search for and retrieve it in the contest of a participative e-activity.

Broadband Penetration in EU Member States

The new measurements of Broadband access in European Union Member States were published on October 15, 2007, by the European Commission.

Greece is in the 25th position, with an overall penetration of 6,8%. Concerning the speed of progress, Greece is at the European average, with 4,2% in an annual basis.

Find the complete review at http://sup.kathimerini.gr/xtra/media/files/var/Broadband0707.pdf

Interoperability Virtual Laboratory - General Assembly

The Interop-VLAB general assembly took place in Brussels, at 26th September 2007.

INTEROP-VLab is the "European virtual laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability", officially created as an AISBL (Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif) under the Belgian law.

The mission of INTEROP-VLab is to consolidate, develop and durably maintain the new European research community in the domain of Enterprise Interoperability.

INTEROP-VLab is a virtual, i.e. distributed and coordinated research organization, which is capable of aggregating existing and future research laboratories in close connection with industry, to achieve a number of goals that each single participant organization would not be able to realize.

VLab has local organisations, called Poles, in more than 10 European Countries and China.

For more information on VLAB, visit http://www.interop-vlab.eu/