Legal issues for the advancement of information society technologies

Objective

LEGAL-IST objective is to provide support to the IST programme execution and to facilitate the rapid adoption of the relevant research results, by addressing legal issues and barriers which are hampering the implementation of IST related technologies and business models and by identifying an evolution strategy for the EU regulatory framework in the IST/eEconomy domain.

LEGAL-IST is devoted to capturing, analysing and framing the legal aspects of innovative technologies and methodologies emerging from within the Information Society, with the following objectives:
- consolidate the legal research results undertaken in the IST FP in order to establish an harmonic view and support the utilisation of the results achieved
- support the research activities within the IST priority from a legal viewpoint, by studying the implications of similar research initiative in IST (in terms of both emerging technologies and relevant "networked" business models) and providing suggestions for relevant implementation strategy. This will be achieved by conducting support studies on selected legal issues relevant to IST areas of investigation, and by providing legal support to on-going IST Research Projects
- contribute to the definition of emerging Policies for strengthening EU regulatory framework, validated through a consensus building campaign in which Governments, Policy-Makers and Public Institutions are involved, primarily for SMEs' benefit which can hardly afford the evaluation of the legal implications of the research they undertake
- deliver a on-line community for SMEs, to be maintained and developed also beyond the project completion, for delivering legal information and advice, in view of promoting and supporting their activities in the Information Society.

Field of science

• /social sciences/economics and business/business and management/business model

Programme(s)

• FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Topic(s)

• IST-2002-2.3.6 - Programme Level Accompanying Measures

Funding Scheme

SSA - Specific Support Action

Coordinator

ESOCE NET (EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CONCURRENT ENGINEERING)

Address

Via Cortina D'ampezzo 164
00135 Roma
Italy

Participants (15)

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA

Italy

Address

Via Zamboni 33
40126 Bologna

CENTRE OF INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIC LAW

Greece

Address

Terma Phoinika 10 - Kalamaria
55102 Thessaloniki

CESPIM - CENTRO STUDI PER L'INNOVAZIONE D' IMPRESA S.R.L.

Italy

Address

Piazza Di Pietra 31
00186 Roma

CETIM - CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT GMBH

Germany

Address

Werner Von Heisenberg-weg 39
85577 Neubiberg

FACULTES UNIVERSITAIRES NOTRE-DAME DE LA PAIX

Belgium

Address

Rue De Bruxelles 61
5000 Namur

FIDAL

France

Address

12 Bld Du General Leclerc
92200 Neuilly Sur Seine

GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAET GOETTINGEN STIFTUNG OEFFENTLICHEN RECHTS

Germany

Address

Wilhelmsplatz 1
37073 Goettingen

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES BELGIUM

Belgium

Address

Avenue Du Bourget, 42
1130 Bruxelles

J & A GARRIGUES, S.L.

Spain

Address

Calle Jose Abascal 45
28003 Madrid

KUNZ, SCHIMA, WALLENTIN & PARTNER RECHTSANWAELTE

Austria

Address

Porzellangasse 4-6
1090 Wien

LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY

United Kingdom

Address

Ashby Road
Loughborough, Leicestershire

PINSENT MASONS LIMITED

United Kingdom

Address

1 Park Row
LS1 5AB Leeds

PLATTE CONSULT GMBH

Germany

Address

Alfred-nobel-platz 1
76829 Landau In Der Pfalz

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO

Norway

Address

Problemveien 5-7
0316 Oslo

VALTION TEKNILLINEN TUTKIMUSKESKUS

Finland

Address

02044 Vtt